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Faye Barnes was born in Texas around 1900. She moved North sometime around 1920 and worked on the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit and in clubs in New York. After her first record was released on Black Swan records in August of 1923 she only used the name Faye Barnes one other time when she was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra in June of 1924. All of her other records were released under the name of Maggie Jones. The reason for this name change is unknown. She is best remembered today...
Topics: Maggie Jones, Faye Barnes, Blues, 1920's, 1925, Suicide Blues
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James P. Johnson was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. His style became known as Stride. As a boy, Johnson studied Classical music and Ragtime. He started playing professionally in a sporting house, and then progressed to rent parties, bars and vaudeville. He eventually became known as the best piano player on the East Coast and was widely utilized as an accompanist on over 400 recordings and from 1916 on, produced hundreds of piano rolls under his own...
Topics: James P. Johnson, James Johnson, Johnson, Gut Stomp, 1940's, 1943, recording, blues, piano, jazz
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The California Ramblers were a popular and prolific jazz group from the 1920s, which recorded hundreds of songs under many different record labels throughout the 1920s. Three of the members of the band, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, and Tommy Dorsey, would go on to front big bands in later decades. The original band members were from Ohio, but chose the name California Ramblers because they thought people would be less inclined to listen to a jazz band from the Midwest. The "Ramblers"...
Topics: California Ramblers, Ramblers, Yes She Do, Yes She Do No She Don't, 1920's, 1927
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Written by Richard M. Jones. This is the first recording (1926) with vocalist Bertha 'Chippie' Hill and Louis Armstrong on cornet. Richard Myknee Jones was from a musical family in New Orleans and played a variety of instruments before making the piano his main instrument. He played in Armand Piron's Olympia Orchestra and led his own band called The Four Hot Hounds which included Sugar Johnny Smith and occasionally King Oliver. During World War One he played with Papa Celestin. He left New...
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Topics: Richard M. Jones, Richard Jones, Trouble in Mind, 1920's, 1926, Blues, Armstrong, Louis Armstrong,...
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Johnson was a pioneering Blues and Jazz guitarist and banjoist. He started playing in cafes in New Orleans and in 1917 he traveled in Europe, playing in revues and briefly with Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra. When he returned home to New Orleans in 1918 he discovered that his entire family had been killed by a flu epidemic except for one brother. He and his surviving brother, James "Steady Roll" Johnson moved to St. Louis in 1920 where Lonnie played with Charlie...
Topics: Alfonzo Johnson, Alfonzo 'Lonnie' Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Johnson, She's Only a Woman, Blues,...
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Johnson was a pioneering Blues and Jazz guitarist and banjoist. He started playing in cafes in New Orleans and in 1917 he traveled in Europe, playing in revues and briefly with Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra. When he returned home to New Orleans in 1918 he discovered that his entire family had been killed by a flu epidemic except for one brother. He and his surviving brother, James "Steady Roll" Johnson moved to St. Louis in 1920 where Lonnie played with Charlie...
Topics: Alfonzo Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Alfonzo Lonnie Johnson, Alfonzo 'Lonnie' Johnson, Blues, Guitar,...
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James P. Johnson was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. His style became known as Stride. As a boy, Johnson studied Classical music and Ragtime. He started playing professionally in a sporting house, and then progressed to rent parties, bars and vaudeville. He eventually became known as the best piano player on the East Coast and was widely utilized as an accompanist on over 400 recordings and from 1916 on, produced hundreds of piano rolls under his own...
Topics: James P. Johnson, James Johnson, Johnson, piano, blues, The Dream, 1940's, 1945, recording
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Written as a tribute to Bessie Smith. James P. Johnson was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. His style became known as Stride. As a boy, Johnson studied Classical music and Ragtime. He started playing professionally in a sporting house, and then progressed to rent parties, bars and vaudeville. He eventually became known as the best piano player on the East Coast and was widely utilized as an accompanist on over 400 recordings and from 1916 on, produced...
Topics: James P. Johnson, James Johnson, Blues, Piano, Jazz, 1940's, 1943, recording, Bessie Smith, tribute
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James P. Johnson was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. His style became known as Stride. As a boy, Johnson studied Classical music and Ragtime. He started playing professionally in a sporting house, and then progressed to rent parties, bars and vaudeville. He eventually became known as the best piano player on the East Coast and was widely utilized as an accompanist on over 400 recordings and from 1916 on, produced hundreds of piano rolls under his own...
Topics: James P. Johnson, James Johnson, Johnson, 1920's, 1923, Blues, Piano, Jazz, recording
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Bunk Johnson confused Jazz historians for years by lying about almost everything, but nevertheless he was an early Jazz pioneer who apparently played in bands led by Buddy Bolden. He definitely played in Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band, The Superior Orchestra and with Clarence Williams. He left New Orleans in 1915 and played in minstrel shows, theatre orchestras and circus bands, and with the Black Eagle Band. While playing with the Black Eagles in 1930 the band's other trumpet player Evan Thomas...
Topics: Bunk Johnson, Bunk Johnson's New Orleans Band, Jazz, Blues, 1945, 1940's, One Sweet Letter From...
Three recordings from Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon. Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon was a vaudeville singer, comedian and female impersonator. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He got his start in show business some time around 1910 as a singer in cafes, movie theatres and bars in Kansas City. He traveled extensively throughout the United States between 1916 and 1921 and in the early 1920s he often appeared on the bill with King Oliver and...
Topics: Frankie Jaxon, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Jaxon, Jazz, Blues, 1930's, 1940's, music, recording
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