Tag Archives: 1930s – 1940s

Especially with the current presence of the term “ramblers” within the name, this group which started in Kentucky might seem on the top like yet another old-time music or traditional country band. But judging from your group’s flexibility and the amount of different styles they were more comfortable with, the …

There’s an unbelievably tragic symmetry between your lives of Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian. Both had been string players who broke right into a main big music group in nov 1939, totally rewrote the vocabularies of the instruments, hardly ever led recording periods of their very own, played on the …

b. 20 Feb 1907, USA, d. Dec 1966. Himber produced his initial dance music group in the first 30s in NEW YORK, NY, USA, having previously proved helpful being a sideman with Rudy Vallee so when manager for Pal Rogers’ Band. He previously also been utilized being a magician in …

The quantity of real information known about Jesse “Monkey Joe” Coleman, who recorded extensively within the 1930s for Lester Melrose in Chicago and who was simply still playing clubs within the Windy City in the 1960s and 1970s, is astonishingly small. He was created sometime around or before 1906, most …

The older brother from the okay drummer Small Hall, Tubby Hall started playing in New Orleans using the Crescent Orchestra in 1914. After executing using the Eagle Music group, the Sterling silver Leaf Orchestra as well as other significant local groupings, Hall shifted to Chicago where he performed briefly with …

Sometimes cited as you whose edgy executing design helped to ignite tempo & blues and finally resulted in the rise of rock and roll & move, Doctor Clayton was an attention-getting vocalist whose love of life was very best displayed on his initially unissued 1941 saving of “Jitterbug Golf swing,” …

b. Victoria Louise Massey, 10 August 1902, Hart State, Tx, USA, d. 20 June 1983, San Angelo, Tx, USA. The Massey family members relocated initial to Midland and towards the K Club Ranch, near Roswell, Lincoln State, New Mexico, to a location still influenced with the legacy of Billy a …

b. 8 Might 1915, Wheeling, Western Virginia, USA, d. 21 March 1971, Santa Monica, California, USA. A clean, soft-voiced vocalist, Wynn relocated to NY in her teenagers and became a member of the Will Hudson – Eddie De Lange Orchestra, offering on its 1937 strike information ‘Yours and Mine’ and …

Peetie Wheatstraw was the name adopted by vocalist William Number, taking it from Dark American folklore. Based on writer Ralph Ellison, who used the Wheatstraw star to model individuals in his books Invisible Guy and Juneteenth, “Peetie Wheatstraw” was the wicked half a twin character whose problem was invoked in …

Rosetta Howard may also be regarded as a vintage blues vocalist but she actually came up throughout a slightly later on era. Very little is well known about her existence. Howard began performing expertly in 1932 and she worked well in Chicago and down the road New York through the …