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Born in 1914, pianist/vocalist Sing Miller was active on the New Orleans scene from the late 1920s until his death in 1990. If Sing didn't like something, he'd let you know. Man...that ball don't bounce," is a Sing-saying drummer Jeff Hamilton remembers.
Early one winter morning in Iowa in 1984, when I was traveling as ...
Listen to bassist Pops Foster with the Luis Russell Orchestra from 1929, playing Jersey Lightning." Also on this record are New Orleans men Henry Red" Allen, Albert Nicholas and Paul Barbarin. Virtually all of the New Orleans bass players depicted in this post played in an energetic, percussive style very similar to Foster's:
Listen to St. Louis Blues"
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In a long caption in my book, Preservation Hall (W.W. Norton, 1991), I told the story, quoted below, of the Humphreys' long lives and distinguished lineage. I never met their trombonist brother, Earl, who died ...
The Old Eureka Band, led from the 1930s by Percy Humphrey.
Tops in the city as late as the 1950s, its joyous processions were marked by a dignity and decorum since overtaken by the wild and garish. Photos by Tom Sharpsteen, compiled with sound by Clint Baker and Katie Cavera, used here with ...
In the jazz genome, the blues is essential.
Visible Roots of America's Most Original Cultural Product