Tag Archives: 1920s – 1940s

There are a few details in the life span of the vintage jazzman which are simply because ordinary simply because his name. There’s, for instance, his decision to change from banjo to electric guitar; this is a move apparently every picker within a jazz combo or dance music group made …

Dick Robertson–one from the busiest big music group and studio room singers from your past due ’20s through the first ’40s–eventually pushed the microphone away, sat straight down and got occupied writing tunes of his personal. This catalog of tunes includes the somewhat melancholy “I’m just a little around the …

Pop music and present melody lyricist Lorenz Hart is certainly best-known for his use composer Richard Rodgers. Among the most effective songwriting duos of Broadway, they inspired the audio of theater through the entire ’20s and ’30s. Delivered in N.Con.C. on, may 2, 1895, Hart initial fulfilled and teamed up …

Perhaps one of the most colorful trombonists ever, Tricky Sam Nanton’s knowledge using the plunger mute (emitting a big range of growls and colorful shades) was a significant section of Duke Ellington’s first sound and offers rarely been duplicated since (although Quentin Jackson sometimes came close). He obtained early experience …

A good pianist who seldom soloed, Charlie Johnson is of greatest significance for leading his Heaven Ten, an orchestra that had five excellent saving periods during 1925-1929, and played at Smalls’ Heaven during 1925-1935. One of the sidemen who show up on Johnson’s information are trumpeters Jabbo Smith, Thomas Morris, …

Sophistication Moore was a find out of another period — nearly a geological age’s length — in popular entertainment: an opera vocalist who found achievement for the silver screen and also charted some strike records. Her tale is also perhaps one of the most convincing tales of achievement, beat, redemption, …

Multi-instrumentalist and bandleader William Henry Somers was created in Dublin, Ireland, about Apr 11, 1890. The child of a music group sergeant within the First Gloucestershire Regiment, he discovered music on the Chelsea Armed forces Academy and examined piano with Michele Esposito on the Royal Irish Academy of Music in …

b. Walter Houghston, 6 Apr 1884, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, d. 7 Apr 1950, Beverly Hillsides, LA, California, USA. Although Huston got studied anatomist, he became an professional and proved helpful in vaudeville and on the reputable stage in NY. Following his relationship and the delivery of his boy, John Huston …

Through the Roaring ’20s, songwriter Walter Donaldson saluted the original, down-home areas of American life, not merely with tracks like “My Mammy,” “My Blue Heaven,” “Isn’t She the Sweetest Thing,” “My Baby Just Cares for me personally,” and “Appreciate Me or Keep Me,” but additionally along with his parade of …

Within a marvelous career that spanned the enchanted many years of the French belle époque, the fantastic songwriter/operetta composer Vincent Scotto kept a cautious distance from high French culture, choosing instead to recognize using the language and music from the cafés, the road, as well as the countryside. Scotto’s probably …