r/Earlyjazz • u/musicbikesrva • Oct 05 '12
r/Earlyjazz • u/Xelebes • Dec 07 '18
Is this a place for simply old jazz or for trad jazz?
Is this a place for early jazz recordings or is it a place for modern trad jazz recordings including new songs done in the trad jazz. . . tradition?
r/Earlyjazz • u/chickenbean • Oct 17 '12
Fats Waller - I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling'
r/Earlyjazz • u/musicbikesrva • Oct 06 '12
Annette Hanshaw - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (1929)
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 09 '12
"In my merry Oldsmobile" - Cover by the Jean Goldkette band, 1927.
r/Earlyjazz • u/musicbikesrva • Oct 05 '12
James P. Johnson - The Charleston (1923)
r/Earlyjazz • u/musicbikesrva • Oct 04 '12
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (1929)
r/Earlyjazz • u/ragebowler • May 17 '13
Contemporary Dixieland
Does anyone know any good contemporary players who still play the dixieland flavor? I know the Preservation Jazz Hall Band but my list runs short after that. Thanks much
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 19 '12
Red Lips Kiss My Blues Away - Leo Reisman, 1927. Perfect mid-twenties tune with the unique Reisman feel.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 19 '12
Say Arabella - George Olsen and his Orchestra.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 19 '12
That Old Gang of Mine - Billy Murray and Ed Smalle
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 05 '12
"Lucille" - Wilbur Sweatman and his Jazz Orchestra, 1919.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 03 '12
"My Buddy", a haunting melody about losing a friend. In this case, in war. 1922. Henry Burr.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 03 '12
"The Last Long Mile", a song about the woes of a soldier during the Great War.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 03 '12
"Some of these days" sung by Sophie Tucker in 1911.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 03 '12
The first record to break a million sales, Paul Whiteman's "Whispering". 1920.
r/Earlyjazz • u/Fidena • Oct 03 '12
"Is there still for for me 'neath the apple tree", 1915. Peerless Quartet
r/Earlyjazz • u/Xelebes • Jan 21 '19
So I'm getting the impression that jazz in the heart of the early swing era in Canada was dominated by country swing.
Most historiographies of jazz in Canada I've read have primarily focused on jazz that centered around the horn, and certainly there were a number of bands who did play jazz with horns. In the 1920s, a lot of Americans moved north to play in these orchestras and so you see some mixed-race orchestras like Graydon Tipp Orchestra whose black players came from the US. Most of the black settlers who came before the jazz era typically were excluded except to serve as singers or such. This tells me that there were simply not a lot of horns in Canada as a military marching bands were composed of pipes and drums.
But in the 1930s, I notice that as the number of swing bands grew, it's not that the jazz bands of the time were poorly recorded, it's that most of the new bands were composed only of strings and adopted a "country swing" style that was different from the more Oklahoman "Western Swing". And it wasn't until World War II and the cooperation in the training of soldiers that brought a lot of horns and such to Canada and a lot of country swing musicians ended up forming modern jazz orchestras with properly sized horn sections.
Is there evidence against this notion? Did horned-jazz bands outnumber the stringed jazz bands in the 20s and 30s within Canada?