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An excellent journeyman player, Man Kelly was a fixture in Chicago through the 1930’s. In early stages he used Toots Johnson in Baton Rouge and was with Oscar Celestin (1927-28) in New Orleans. After touring with Child Howard and Boyd Atkins’ Firecrackers, Kelly shifted to Chicago. Among the countless music …

Another Texas Traditional western swing music group, the Alabama Kids were shaped when Bob Wills and His Tx Playboys remaining Fort Well worth for Oklahoma rather than everyone wished to produce the move. Founding associates had been Don Ivey on piano, Natural cotton Thompson on fiddle and Darrell Jones on …

This midwest trumpeter, from the wonderful Jimmie Lunceford band for a great deal of the ’30s, is among the few classic jazz instrumentalists to die as the consequence of a so-called “friendly fire” incident. Possibly the only 1: analysis assistants are currently touching armed forces administrations on a global level …

The cavalcade of music artists named Wayne Smith would move with an uncommon grace were each of them striding with time using the guitarist of the name who’s connected with pianist Fats Waller’s recordings through the ’30s. Smith strummed up a way to obtain rhythm acoustic guitar chords using the …

While Fletcher Allen is a name most referred to as physician, gleam jazz saxophonist and arranger with this name who actually seemed to bypass; his profession including lengthy executing stints in India and Egypt aswell as the expanded Western european sojourns that are “de rigeur,” “naturalisch,” or “bellisimo” for the …

Born right into a music Oklahoma family members that acquired fiddled for years, Jimmie Revard moved to Tx before he became an adolescent, but honored his house condition when he called his music group Jimmie Revard’s Oklahoma Playboys. Revard’s foray in to the traditional western swing picture of 1930s Tx …

b. 13 June 1905, Burnsville, NEW YORK, USA, d. 13 July 1980, USA. Playing acoustic guitar and performing traditional music that ranged through the blues to early nation, Riddles became a pal and musical friend of the.P. Carter, patriarch from the Carter Family members. With Carter, he travelled through many …

Not to end up being confused with stride piano get better at Adam P. Johnson, J.C. Johnson (or, sometimes, Adam C. Johnson) was a pianist and songwriter who accomplished his greatest presence working with Fat Waller. Johnson was created Sept 14, 1896, in Chicago, and produced his 1st recordings in …

No biographical information are for sale to Doyle, an obscure, impoverished, blind American road blues vocalist who, as his name implies, was also a dwarf. He was considered to have been delivered in Memphis, probably at the convert from the twentieth hundred years and documented 10 monitors there for Columbia …

Banjoist Hayes Shepherd (his provided name may also be listed while Hays) lived in the Jenkins part of eastern Kentucky, close to the Kentucky/Virginia boundary in Letcher Region, an area well-known for its old-time banjo players. Shepherd (affectionately dubbed “the Appalachia Vagabond”), together with his brothers Expenses Shepherd (fiddle) and …