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VJM 192
RECORDINGS BY BIX BEIDERBECKE OF ‘ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND’ NUMBERS By Albert Haim
ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE
This section has Ralph Wondraschek’s complete series of articles on the ‘Original Memphis Five’. The references for all are at the end of the final installment, Part 8.
1. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 1 - 'THE LAST WORD IN JAZZ ART' (VJM 178)
2. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 2 - 'FROM GANGLAND TO BROADWAY'(VJM 179)
3. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 3 - 'THE BUSIEST BAND IN THE LAND' (VJM 181)
4. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 4 - ON THE ROAD, AND BAND WITHIN THE BAND (VJM 183)
5. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 5 - ADDENDA 1919-1922 (VJM 186)
6. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 6 - MORE ADDENDA 1919-1922 (VJM 187)
7. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 7 - YET MORE ADDENDA 1919-1923 (VJM 189)
8. THE 'ORIGINAL MEMPHIS FIVE' PART 8 - STILL MORE ADDENDA 1923-1926 (VJM 191) & REFERENCES
VJM 189
BLUES FOR JELLY ROLL & FATS, By Steven Lasker & Lewis Porter
SOUNDS TO COMPLEMENT MYRTLE ‘PAQUITA’ WATKINS: From Blackbirds of ’28 to The Taj Mahal, By Russ Shor
VJM 188
JUST A MOOD - BENNY CARTER IN EUROPE, By Brian Goggin
Articles Archive
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OH BROTHER GREEN, PRAY COME TO ME by Tom Buhmann
TED LEWIS - AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES A. DRAKE
BENTON OVERSTREET - MUSICAL NOMAD
A FLOATING SEMINAR - LOUIS ARMSTRONG & ART HICKMAN’S ORCHESTRA
LOREN McMURRAY - FORGOTTEN PIONEER OF THE JAZZ SAXOPHONE (Revised)
MURDER IN MONTMARTRE - THE LEON CRUTCHER AFFAIR
THE CHOO CHOO JAZZERS PART THREE
THE CHOO CHOO JAZZERS PART TWO
THE CHOO CHOO JAZZERS PART ONE
WILLIE LEWIS MEETS SOME FRAGILE EGOS Listen Here!
CHRIS ELLIS - ‘GOT MY MIND ON MUSIC’
HEDGES BROTHERS & JACOBSON - RAGTIME INVADERS
JOEY SHIELDS - “A LOUD VOICE AND GREAT JAZZ FEELING”
THE DUKE, THE ‘SOUTHERN SYNCOPATOR' AND A MYSTERIOUS RECORD
CHARLIE PALLOY - SINGULAR ARTIST - MULTIPLE NAMES
EDDIE LANG - THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1902-1925, PART TWO
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EDDIE LANG - THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1902-1925, PART ONE
BERT RALTON AND HIS HAVANA BAND
JELLY ROLL MORTON AND THE MELROSE BROTHERS
A ST. LOUIS MYSTERY RECORD - OKEH? Click Here to hear the record!
ERNEST COYCAULT - CREOLE TRUMPET ODDYSSEY
THE FIRST JAZZ BAND AT THE WHITE HOUSE
ROBERT JOHNSON'S DIME STORE ISSUES
JEAN GOLDKETTE'S POST-BIX RECORDINGS PART TWO
JEAN GOLDKETTE'S POST-BIX RECORDINGS PART ONE
TOMMY CHRISTIAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
VICTOR'S CHURCH STUDIO, CAMDEN, 1918-1935
ARTHUR FIELDS' SONG SHOP, 1922-23
KATHERINE HENDERSON - PHANTOM VOCALIST?
BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT DISCOGRAPHY
ALBERT BRUNIES & THE HALFWAY HOUSE ORCHESTRA
ALETHA DICKERSON - PARAMOUNT'S RELUCTANT RECORDING MANAGER
EARL HINES - IN CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY BALDWIN
OUT OF ANONYMITY - BUD SHIFFMAN, 80 YEARS ON THE ROAD
OKEH 'TRUETONE' ELECTRICAL RECORDING
THE UNITED STATES ARMY AMBULANCE SERVICE JAZZ BAND - ITALY 1918/19
WILLIAM H.HUFF - PHARMACIST, LAWYER, POET - PARAMOUNT SONGWRITER!
WHAT PRICE RECORDS? THE U.S. RECORD INDUSTRY AND THE RETAIL PRICE OF POPULAR RECORDS, 1925-50
ALFRED SCHULTZ - PARAMOUNT'S PRESSING FOREMAN
JELLY ROLL MORTON - PLAGIARIST?
LE MYSTERIEUX MONSIEUR GOLDKETTE
THE DUOPHONE D-4000 SERIES: AMERICAN DANCE MUSIC FOR THE BRITISH MARKET
WHAT MADE THAT GREAT OKEH SOUND?
LIEDERKRANZ HALL - THE WORLD'S BEST RECORDING STUDIO?
BRIAN RUST - JAZZ DISCOGRAPHER, PART 2
BRIAN RUST - JAZZ DISCOGRAPHER, PART 1
VOLTAIRE DE FAUT - CHICAGO CLARINETTIST
THE MORTON-MELROSE 'STOCK' ARRANGEMENTS
GOUGES, VAMPS, ZULUS & SCRONCHES
(P)REDATING PARAMOUNT'S L-SERIES GRAFTON MATRICES
RED HOT JAZZ - SIZZLING! ROASTING! SCORCHING! (MARKETING JAZZ RECORDS IN THE 1920s)
DISCOGRAPHICAL QUESTIONS ON THE MEMPHIS JAZZERS/LEVEE SYNCOPATORS
VIC MEYERS - FROM DANCE HALL TO CITY HALL
DUKE ELLINGTON IN HOLLAND - 1939
JOHN R.T. DAVIES - THE ULTIMATE PRESERVATIONIST
SIG HELLER- TINKLE THE DANCE TUNES
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