Tag: 1955
From the Record Shelves #321 – I’m Coming Virginia – Johnny Hyman, better known as Johnny Wiggs (1899–1977), started to play cornet at an early age and became professional playing in different bands in his hometown New Orleans after 1925. He chose, however to become a teacher of other things (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #238 – Sing On – Today I will not say much myself; instead I give the word to Richard Hadlock, who wrote the liner notes in 1986: “New Orleans jazz, music which strikes many listeners as ingenuously blithe and sportive, is, for its players, a life and (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #196 – Bye and Bye – Guitar and banjo player Johnny St. Cyr was back in the business of recording at the end of the 1940s. His absence from the studios had been about twenty years long. Here he is appointed band leader of (…) read more and listenread more and listen