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• “BIX AND HIS GANG” REDUX, 1975

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  I don’t exactly know the source of the videos below — except that they’ve been posted by “sergech” on YouTube some time ago.  I was in the audience at several New York City concerts of the New York Jazz Repertory Company in 1974 and 1975: two tributes to Louis Armstrong, two to Bix Beiderbecke, but I ...
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• RINGSIDE AT KEVIN’S: Feb. 5, 2010

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  My readers will catch the reference in the title to one of the great recordings of the early LP era (some might say one of the great recordings of all time) RINGSIDE AT CONDON’S, a collection of live performances by Eddie Condon’s 1951-52 band at the club named for him.  The music is precise but utterly spirited, ...
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• HOOLEY’S HOME MOVIES

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  From Bill Haesler, the Australian jazz scholar, and courtesy of Denis King, I learned that Harry Oakley has posted on YouTube a four-minute selection from the trumpeter Sylvester Ahola’s home movies, taken in the 1920s.  They are cheerful sketches of musicians mugging for the camera, and in some cases doing ...
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• A SMALL TREASURE

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  Ten inches square (or in diameter) in fact. Often of late I have noted jazz treasures for sale on eBay — and posting them here becomes a substitute for attempting to possess them).  But here is a delightful artifact I found and bought.  It’s a 10″ red vinyl Paramount long-playing record (a John Steiner ...
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• TEARING IT UP! (Vic Berton and Friends, 1928)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  Walt Roesner and his Capitolians — the large all-star all-purpose orchestra that appeared at the Capitol Theatre in New York City — made a Vitaphone short film in 1928.  Two-thirds of the film is given over to 1) an impassioned tenor singing O SOLE MIO, and 2) an impassioned tenor singing ANGELA MIA.  Although ...
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• O KATHARINA!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  After reading Hal Smith’s insightful piece on just how Sid Catlett plays on the 1943 record of O KATHARINA, I found myself wondering about this song that Eddie Condon had remembered as a special favorite of Bix Beiderbecke’s. Or, to put it another way, who was KATHARINA and why did she make someone go OH?  Or ...
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• NOW HEAR THIS: Hal Smith and “OH, KATHARINA!”

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
   I’d posted this YouTube clip of the JAM SESSION AT COMMODORE (1943) on OH, KATHARINA! in my recent tribute to Sidney Catlett, who would have been one hundred years ago on January 17, 2010.  Here it is again, for a different reason.  Listeners like myself have spent their lives drinking in the sounds — as a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Died On This Date (January 15, 1964) Jack Teagarden

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 144
  Waldo “Jack” TeagardenAugust 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964Jack Teagarden was an influential jazz trombonist who achieved acclaim during the pre-bebop era.  He was also an accomplished composer and, unlike most other jazz greats, had a beautiful singing voice.  Teagarden had already learned to play the trombone ...
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• THE INTERNATIONAL “HOT” CONSPIRACY

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 429
  There are always rumors of dark international conspiracies and cartels . . . but what of the jazz underground, a secret force for good?  Eighty years ago, this generous conspiracy meant that someone would play you a record you hadn’t heard or even heard of — treasured OKeh of SINGIN’ THE BLUES or ORIENTAL ...
  4 weeks ago

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