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To: greene66
: "I actually have an original 78rpm of Louis Armstrong’s first appearance on record,...Excellent... What a find !!!
4 posted on 09/14/2013 7:49:20 PM PDT by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: virgil283

Yes, I got it from a woman whose father was a musician back in the 1920s, and he bought records (in those pre-radio days) to help him learn to play. She gave me about 200 old records, including many of regional ‘territory’ jazz/dance bands. Lots of early ones recorded in New Orleans, in particular (Tony Parenti, Halfway House Orch, etc.).


5 posted on 09/14/2013 7:55:42 PM PDT by greene66
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Two other similar-vintage jazz bands I’ve always liked (from the late-1920s) are those of Bennie Moten’s band (out of Kansas City), from which Count Basie was a member later on, and a small jazz group led by Tiny Parham, whose band might have lacked standout soloists, but always had both pep and a certain tastefulness. Both Moten and Parham recorded for Victor Records. Never tire of their stuff.


8 posted on 09/14/2013 8:10:44 PM PDT by greene66
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