Tag: 1935

From the Studio #64 – On Treasure Island – The book by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1883 and was “a story for boys.” So, as a boy, like many other boys and maybe a few girls, I read and enjoyed it. The song is from 1935 and is inspiring to play and to jam on. It has a characteristic minor (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #299 – Tap Room Special – The name “The Little Ramblers” is revived for this session, and the reason is that there is a strong connection to Adrian Rollini since the band heard here was the house band in his club The Tap Room. Here they have (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #294 – On Treasure Island – Around 1970, Teddy Wilson performed solo in a bar only a stone’s throw away from where I lived here in Malmö, Sweden. I also heard him play with an all-star band in Spain a couple of years later. How his playing was (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #236 – Farewell Blues – I have a faint memory of seeing his name as a piano accompanist to a striptease act here in Malmö, Sweden, in the 1960s. I was too young to be allowed into that venue. Claude Hopkins (1903–1984) had a long career (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #181 – Dippermouth Blues – The two musically sympathetic Dorsey brothers could still cooperate when these sessions were made. Both were already experienced in the jazz idiom and had a technique on their instruments that few could match (…) read more and listenread more and listen