BENNY GOODMAN & COUNT BASIE’S DOMAIN with a Helpful Guide Including New Observations about the March 9, 1938 Benny Goodman Orchestra Recordings
Published 5/12/2021
GIL BERNAL is the tenor sax soloist on The Coasters recording of “Turtle Dovin’”
Published 3/19/2021
JAZZ IN THE EARLY DAYS AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
Published 3/1/2021
SORTING OUT THE THREE JAZZ BILLY TAYLORS
Published 2/22/2021
History of the Hot Club of France
Published 2/16/2021
Coleman Hawkins and His All Star Jam Band—April 28, 1937
Published 2/15/2021
THE COMPLETE GARNET CLARKE
Published 1/22/2021
SARAH VAUGHAN’S ILLUSTRATION OF THE SWING SONG TRADITION IN HER RECORDINGS OF MAY 18 & 19, 1950 AND THE ADDITION OF ALTERNATE TAKES WITH THE 1997 CD EXPANDED EDITION OF “SARAH VAUGHAN IN HI-FI”
Published 12/23/2020
In Memory of Ray Carman
Published 12/14/2020
Researching the March 19, 1940 Count Basie Orchestra Recording of “Louisiana” that led to exploring “Tickle Toe” from the same date: The Story and the Results
Published 12/4/2020
An Early Jazz Primer
Published 11/10/2020
Don Redman Arranged his Composition "Cherry" as Recorded by McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Published 10/13/2020
FREDDIE WEBSTER, the May 2, 1945 Frankie Socolow for the small, short-lived, and far less famous Duke label, the lost “Blue Fantasy” and the found “September In The Rain”
Published 8/14/2019
THE IDENTITY OF THE PIANIST ON JACK PURVIS RECORDINGS OF APRIL 4, 1930 AND MAY 1, 1930
Published 8/5/2019
Kiyoshi Koyama
Published 5/2/2019
Buddy Bolden
Published 1/16/2019
Woodstock Jam Session
Published 1/16/2019
REPORT ON THE LEGAL/ACTUAL SURNAME OF LEGENDARY JAZZ DRUMMER KENNY “KLOOK” CLARKE -- SPEARMAN
Published 7/21/2018
THE NEO HOT CLUB MOVEMENT AND THE EXPANSION OF A YOUNG LISTENING AUDIENCE FOR JAZZ
Published 6/27/2018
Chu Berry Baritone Sax Solos
Published 5/18/2018
Percy Severe
Published 2/28/2018
Wabash Blues possible alternates
Published 1/21/2018
New Orleans Rhythm Kings take verifications directly from the Gennett 78s
Published 3/21/2015
The Casa Loma Orchestra
Published 6/18/2014
Coleman Hawkins 1943-44 Recordings
Published 6/18/2014
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Published 6/18/2014
Miles Davis and Hard Bop
Published 6/18/2014
Instrumentalists As Singers
Published 6/18/2014
Mingus' Compositions
Published 6/18/2014
All-Star Record Dates part 1
Published 6/18/2014
All-Star Record Dates part 2
Published 6/18/2014
Charlie Johnson
Published 6/18/2014
The 1934 Benny Goodman Orchestra That Never Was
Published 6/18/2014
Glenn Miller's First Leader Date
Published 6/18/2014
"King Porter Stomp" Four Ways
Published 6/18/2014
Chamber Jazz
Published 6/18/2014
Overlooked Masterpieces By Dukes, Blanton-Strayhorn-Webster Band
Published 6/18/2014
Young Deaths In Jazz
Published 6/18/2014
Bix Beiderbecke
Published 6/18/2014
1940s Recordings Of The Cootie Williams Orchestra
Published 6/18/2014
Horace Silver and Hard Bop on Blue Note
Published 6/18/2014
Bessie Smith's Final Record Date
Published 6/18/2014
British Pathe Newsreel Jazz Clips
Published 6/18/2014
Jazz At The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
Published 6/18/2014
Jazz at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair
Published 6/18/2014
Introduction To Discography
Published 6/18/2014
HERSCHEL EVANS: two pieces of information to his early life
Published 4/2/2013
THE GOUGE OF ARMOUR AVENUE, A LEGENDARY TROMBONE SOLO, AND A PRONUNCIATION
Published 3/14/2013
LESTER YOUNG - The President
Published 2/5/2013
"MONK's "Wee See" with two tenor saxophone solos by Frank Foster on May 11, 1954
Published 1/4/2013
Willie Bryant
Published 12/29/2012
Fellow Swingology Students We Will All Rise and Join In Our Alma Mater "Swingin' at the Daisy Chain"
Published 11/13/2012
Louis Armstrong and the classic Traditional Jazz tune "Basin Street Blues"
Published 11/12/2012
Tommy Dorsey, NOT King Oliver
Published 10/15/2012 Tags: King Oliver, Tommy Dorsey, Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four
Ella Fitzgerald's Berlin Rarities
Published 9/24/2012 Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Berlin, Verve, Polygram, Norman Granz, Mack the Knife
The Etymology of "Salt Peanuts"
Published 9/24/2012 Tags: Salt Peanuts, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong
The Sonic Mystery of Monk's "Pannonica"
Published 8/4/2012 Tags: Thelonious Monk, Pannonica, Bob Shuster, Mark Wilder, Orrin Keepnews, Brilliant Corners, Tom Ruff
Who Plays Drums on Gillespie's Rare Jerome Kern Album?
Published 8/4/2012 Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Jerome Kern, Roy Hall, Roy Porter, Roy Haynes, Al Haig, Ray Brown, Stan Levey
Remembering Cecil Payne
Published 8/1/2012 Tags: Cecil Payne, baritone saxophone, Count Basie Orchestra, Roy Eldridge Big Band
The Origins of Vocalese
Published 7/26/2012 Tags: vocalese, Jon Hendricks, Bee Palmer, The Cats and Fiddle, Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, Moody's Mood for Love
What Was Miles Davis' Real Name?
Published 7/26/2012 Tags: Miles Davis, Miles Davis Jr, Miles Dewey Davis, Admiral Dewey
Eddie Locke
Published 7/26/2012 Tags: Eddie Locke, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Ryan's, Papa Jo Jones
Some Surprising Tune Histories, Etymologies, and Theories
Published 7/24/2012 Tags: Blue Monk, 'Taint So Honey 'Taint So, Dizzy Gillespie, Willard Robison, A Night in Tunisia, I Waited For You
Little-Known Facts About Bird
Published 6/27/2012 Tags: Charlie Parker, Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Curly Russell, Mel Broiles, Howard McGhee, My Melancholy Baby, Hallelujah, Salt Peanuts, Sonny Stitt, Hen Gates, Stupendous, Past Due, Relaxin' at Camarillo
Little-Known Facts About Lester Young
Published 6/24/2012 Tags: Lester Young, Prez, Clarinet, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Bix Biederbecke
Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club
Published 6/21/2012
Benny Goodman's First Recordings
Published 6/18/2012 Tags: Benny Goodman, Victor Records, Label X, Ben Pollack, Deed I Do, When I First Met Mary
November 14, 1929 Mound City Blue Blowers
Published 6/13/2012