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RIPM Jazz Periodicals was developed to preserve and provide access to the historic jazz periodical literature in order to facilitate the study of jazz history [3] and to address a number of longstanding issues that rendered this large body of literature unavailable: (i) most jazz journals and magazines are out-of-print, in poor physical condition, and/or found in very few libraries; (ii) the ...
Boots Ward was an American jazz drummer and jazz club owner. [1]In the early 1920s, Ward was a member of Mamie Moffitt's Five Jazz Hounds, together with, among others, Harold Black on violin and banjo, John Byard (father of Jaki Byard) on trombone [2] and, occasionally Wendell Culley on trumpet.
Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists; Cooke, Mervyn. Pat Metheny: The ECM Years; Epperson, Bruce. More Important than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography; Erlewine, Michael. All Music Guide to Jazz; Feather, Leonard and Gitler, Ira. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz; Gioia, Ted. The Jazz ...
Wendell Philips Culley (January 8, 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts – May 8, 1983 in Los Angeles, CA) was an American jazz trumpeter and occasional multi instrumentalist. Growing up in Worcester, Culley played regularly at the AME Zion Church, in the Commerce High School band, and occasionally with Mamie Moffitt and Her Five Jazz Hounds . [ 1 ]
Her biography, including many photographs and oral history interviews, are now featured in the Jazz History Database at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. [8] The Jazz History Database was established in 2001, after Rich Falco started researching the musical roots of Jaki Byard , who has been called “the most acclaimed and influential jazz ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on ...
Billy Strayhorn Pittsburgh Music History Archived September 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine; Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers An online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution "Billy Strayhorn Symposium". Jazz History Database. April 15, 2012
Jazz Information was a record label distributed by Commodore Records that produced recordings of Bunk Johnson in 1942. [9] Bill Russell , while gathering material for Jazzmen in 1938, discovered long forgotten New Orleans trumpeter Bunk Johnson on a farm in New Iberia, Louisiana .