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Tomorrow: King Oliver Comes to Queens!
New York hot jazz lovers! I’m already booked tomorrow so I’m telling YOU so you can attend this for me! My friends from Archeophone Records Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessy will be at the Louis Armstrong house tomorrow giving a presentation on their Grammy winning Centennial King Oliver boxed set. It’s amazing stuff — not just the music, but what they do to preserve these old recordings, as…
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Archeophone Takes Home Two Grammys!
We are kvelling big time for our friends Rich Martin and Meagan Hennessey of Archeophone Records, for chalking up two Grammy Awards for the album I told you about last August Centennial: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. While I enjoyed the official telecast, I’d have enjoyed it much more if I’d gotten to witness this! I’ve had the pleasure of working with Archeophone three times before, having…
Centennial: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Released Today
Today is a banner day for lovers of early American jazz — it’s the release date for Archeophone Record’s epic new box set Centennial: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. The centenary it celebrates is the 1923 Chicago recording sessions of King Oliver and his band. If the release is a minute late it can only because the people at Archeophone are that exacting. They have restored and remastered the…
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Dan W. Quinn: King of Comic Song
When Dan W. Quinn passed away on November 7, 1938 he’d been out of the limelight for 20 years. With the Big Band Era in full swing (!) he was little remembered by the record buying public despite having been one of the first stars of the medium, with an estimated 2,500 sides to his credit, recorded between the years 1894-1918. Born ca. 1859-60, Quinn grew up in San Francisco and New York. An…
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Eddie Morton, The Singing Cop at 150
Born 150 years ago, singer and comedian Eddie Morton (Edward Farren Morton, 1870-1938). Morton was a second generation performer, the son of C.H. Morton, who had been in the original production of The Black Crook. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Morton worked for the city’s police department until about 1905. Shortly after that, he went into show business, specializing in singing comic songs in…
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This Month: Weber and Fields and the Bowery! October is German-American Heritage Month, which is as appropriate time as there can be for a program celebrating the greatest of all vaudeville "Dutch" comedians, …
Charles A. Asbury: 4 Banjo Songs 1891-1897
Received the new Archeophone set on Charles A. Asbury today and got so excited I made a Wikipedia article. Also realized that of that iconic 1892 Phonogram ad only John C. Leach has no known surviving recordings (Bott/Clarance/Diamond/Hogan/Simonds). Congrats to Archeophone on another indispensable set! P.S. Haul the Woodpile Down is up at UCSB if you’re on the fence.
Mr. Pengelly’s electric phonograph, 1977. From New Amberola Graphic.
