Tag: Farewell Blues

From the Record Shelves #236 - Farewell BluesFrom 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 #132 - Farewell BluesFrom the Record Shelves #132 – Farewell Blues. There are many similarities between this 1923 recording and the one that King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators made a couple of years later, especially in the attitude of the hot final choruses. Isham Jones played tenor sax (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Farewell BluesFarewell Blues, en artikel av Harald Grut i Orkester Journalen, oktober 1946 (…) läs artikelnFarewell Blues