Here's a small treasure for all those who love this kind of jazz and would kill to have been present: a flier for a series of 52nd Street jam session at Jimmy Ryan's, starting on September 27, 1942. Click on it and you'll discover a who's who of jazz in the early 1940s:
“FLORIDA BARN, 1958”: JOHNNY WINDHURST, EDDIE HUBBLE, RED BALABAN
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The trail of home-grown jazz recordings winds back more than a hundred
years, if you begin with the 1926 Earl Baker cylinders. If you’ve never
heard them, ...
Hace 16 horas
And there, with Billie and Hot Lips Page, among the who's who of jazz is my friend Ruby Smith (nee Walker), Bessie's trusty companion and niece by marriage.
ResponderEliminarInteresting document—thanks Augustín.