Kind Of Blog
A Retrospective On Jazz
Monday, 28 December 2015
Take Five
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Buddy Bolden, Kid Ory, King Oliver, Eddie Lang, Johnny Dodds, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Sidney Bechet, Roy Eldridge, Bud Powell, Fats N...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Count Basie's Sidemen
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Buck Clayton Trumpet player Buck Clayton hooked up with Count Basie's band in late 1936 after dropping in on them in the Reno Club i...
Monday, 24 November 2014
Duke Ellington's Sidemen
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Cootie Williams Cootie Williams was the guy who had the dubious honour of replacing Bubber Miley in the late 20's. However he was no...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Billie Holiday
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Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the lay...
Monday, 31 March 2014
Charlie Christian
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"Who the hell wants to hear an electric guitar player?" Benny Goodman This quote came from the 1930´s when John Hammond suggest...
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Django Reinhardt
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"By far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt. I'm sort of a newcomer to his work, although I wa...
Monday, 16 September 2013
Harry "Sweets" Edison
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"I don't know why I'm named Sweets. Lester Young gave me that name. I don't know why I deserve the name. No-one knows but h...
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