Tag: 1930

From the Record Shelves #203 – Black Dog Blues – Among the good music on this CD there is the ragtime guitar master Blind Blake who is in a class by himself. Further on the disc, there is this track that made me think of early Bob Dylan. I don’t think that he would (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #201 – Memories of You – Even if I often delve into more obscure things, I now and then have to play a Louis Armstrong record just to set things straight. Like many other successful artists in the US, he and his managers could choose to (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #195 – Honey That Reminds Me – There is a lot of hot swinging stuff on this LP, most of it rather well known, but today this medium recording caught my attention. There is no composer listed on the LP, but I’ve learned from another source (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #169 – High Society Blues – There is no doubt that the jazz music born in the US was superior to the European attempts in the beginning, and it still may be so today, but around 1930 England was a competitor to American dance music (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #155 – The Basement Blues – While listening to this LP, I reflected about the magnificent photo on the cover. It’s said to have been taken in Paris 1929, but that doesn’t fit since I recognize Tommy Ladnier playing his trumpet there, and he was not (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #149 – Shivery Stomp (Seger Ellis). Now I have managed to dig out the original piano version of this tune by Seger Ellis from my disorganized 78 rpm collection. Seger Ellis was a talented pianist and composer from Houston, Texas who somehow (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #136 – Fourth Street Mess Around. In the 1960s there was a radio program of half a hours’ length in which Olle Helander went around in the south of the USA interviewing and recording the original blues men. In one of the programs (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #104 – He Wouldn’t Stop Doing It. Ikey Robinson was born in Dublin, Virginia in 1904 and became a professional musician at 14. He is worth an LP under his own name and here he’s got one. But five of the eighteen number (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #100 – What Is This Thing Called Love?. This is a record in the RCA Vintage series which means good sound and a good compilation. I bought it in the autumn of 1969 when I started my studies in English at the university, and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #83 – Really Blue. On the LP we find a couple of classic Venuti-Lang recordings in two takes each which is good for comparison. Their routines are well worked out with virtuoso playing and the capacity to fill three minutes (…) read more and listenread more and listen