Tag Archives: 1920s – 1940s

Small Parham (who was simply actually rather huge) was most crucial as an arranger/bandleader in Chicago who recorded many memorable edges from 1927-1930. After we were young in Kansas Town, Parham toured the Southwest using a place band and resolved in Chicago in 1926. Furthermore to associated blues performers and …

Given birth to in Connecticut in 1901, Morton Downey was a favorite entertainer through the pre-World Battle II period. A light tenor nicknamed “The Irish Nightingale,” Downey starred in movies and on the cabaret circuit and radio, generating the honor Radio Vocalist of the entire year in 1932. The daddy …

The patriarch of America’s first category of country music, Alvin Pleasant “A.P.” Delaney Carter led the Carter Family members from 1926 towards the group’s break up in 1943. A collector of a huge selection of folksongs from Britain along with the Appalachian Mountains, Carter modified those tracks into his very …

From the past due ’20s, Reverend J.C. Burnett started documenting religous sermons, including a favorite series released by Columbia. Probably one of the most thrilling recordings of gospel music from a firmly secular standpoint was the mix of Burnett, maker Joe Davis, and several program musicians Davis select for the …

The Baptist preacher J.M. Gates was perhaps one of the most prolifically documented black performers of the first 20th hundred years, with over 200 edges on wax between your middle-’20s and his loss of life in 1940 (he once documented 23 game titles in weekly, at only two periods). His …

At one stage in the later ’20s, Reuben Reeves was one of the most exciting trumpeters in jazz, although his superstar shortly faded. After playing locally within the Midwest, he transferred to NY in 1924. The next calendar year, Reeves relocated to Chicago, and in 1926 he joined up with …

Michael Coleman (1891-1945) of Killavil, Sligo state, Ireland, is among the seminal statistics in Irish and Irish-American traditional music. He found america in 1914 and became an effective performer of Irish music in vaudeville and range theaters across America. He resolved in NEW YORK, where Irish music is at great …

The vocal quartet alternately referred to as the Norfolk Jazz as well as the Norfolk Jubilee was the very best known & most influential band of this kind to emerge from the Tidewater region of Virginia before the appearance of the best-known followers the Golden Gate Quartet. Founded by bass …

Crimson McKenzie was virtually jazz’s just comb participant, putting tissue paper on the comb and building sounds about his “instrument” much like a kazoo. McKenzie was quite effective playing his “ax,” frequently way more than when he sang sentimental ballads. In 1924, he shaped the Mound Town Blue Blowers, a …

A superb alto saxophonist, Otto Hardwick was among the initial players to provide that device some identification and demonstrate its improvising potential. He previously a regularly swinging, enjoyable design, and supplied both sentimental, lyrical refrains on ballads and joyous focus on stomps. He was versatile, beginning being a bassist, shifting …