Tag: Jabbo Smith

From the Record Shelves #197 – Day Break Blues – When interviewed late in his life, the fantastic trumpet player Jabbo Smith spoke about his morose background in the Jenkins Orphanage Band. There was another trumpet player about six years Jabbo’s senior (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #130 – Take Your Time. This trumpet player should not be forgotten. It was in the summer of 1968 that I bought the LP. The holidays from school had just started and when I got home and turned on the record I got a shock because (…) 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

Scaniazz Story #25 – Under en spelning på Chinatown dök en man som hette Torsten upp. Han var agent i Sverige för en engelsk orkester som hette Max Collie’s Rhythm Aces. Bandet bestod av rutinerade musiker och hade vunnit en troligen riggad jazztävling i USA (…) läs merScaniazz Story #25- Följ med på en odyssé!