Tag Archives: 1930s – 1940s

The Three Peppers were a jive trio comprising pianist Oliver “Plaything” Wilson, guitarist Bob Bell, and bassist Walter Williams, who began saving in 1937 for the Range Information label, including edges accompanying singer Sally Gooding. A 12 months later on, they jumped to Decca Information, re-cutting their previously function and …

Zinky Cohn was a pianist from the past due-’20s and ’30s Chicago picture, especially the sets of clarinetist Jimmie Noone. Although playing jazz hasn’t been a sedate business, this period was certainly among the wildest in the annals of the genre. One of these of the sort of playing encounters …

Having a name that appears like a make of special salad cutlery, this early banjoist appeared to have dropped from the scene in the ’30s after a appealing begin to his career toiling in the Dixieland combos of leaders like the great clarinetist Johnny Dodds and trumpeter Tommy Ladnier. He …

Alto saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader Al Cooper was most widely known to be a founding member and the first choice from the Savoy Sultans from 1937 to 1946. Cooper performed early in his profession on the 101 Membership on Lenox Avenue in NY and some additional clubs in NJ and …

In the past due ’30s, some music artists who worked well for Depend Basie lent the name of Elmer Snowden’s band that had performed greater than a decade previous and recorded among the better small ensemble jazz from the ’30s and ’40s. Basie himself revived the name in his old …

This guitarist and singer was the youngest of 14 children. His dad, Emmett W. Lundy, was a fiddler from Grayson Region, VA, who documented a wonderful group of fiddle music from his repertoire for the Library of Congress in 1941. By enough time these recordings had been done, child Kelly …

b. Gitta Alpár, 5 Feb 1900, Budapest, Hungary, d. 17 Feb 1991, LA, California, USA. After gathering popularity as an opera vocalist, Alpar produced some films, generally in minor assignments, sometimes within a cameo being a vocalist. In the first 30s we were holding made in European countries, afterwards also …

Not to end up being confused using the prolific trombonist from the same name, trumpeter George Washington recorded and performed with many big rings in the ’30s and ’40s. Documents of this musician is bound to recordings from the MILITARY Radio Providers Jubilee Displays broadcast series.

Courtney Williams is most beneficial known as among Louis Jordan’s music henchmen, taking part in a horn design often referred to as “smudge-pot trumpet” and discovering amusing, mildly insulting ditties such as for example “Flat Encounter,” “I LOVE ‘Em Fat LIKE THIS,” and “True Fine Framework.” Williams installed with Cab …

A blind nation minstrel content to execute on radio broadcasts instead of record his materials, Pete Cassell impressed many listeners along with his near-perfect pitch and self-taught musicianship. Blessed in Georgia on August 27, 1917, Cassell was blinded in his infancy, and received his education at particular academic institutions in …