I Remember : : Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues / / Clyde E. B. Bernhardt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bernhardt, Clyde E. B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Harris, Sheldon,; Szwed, John F.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Harris, Sheldon.; Szwed, John F.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) :; 48 illus.

I Remember is a first-hand account of the world of black American music told by a man who has been part of that world for eighty years. Clyde E. B. Bernhardt worked with a number of bands, including King Oliver, Marion Hard, Cecil Scott, the Bascomb Brothers, and Joe Garland. He started his own band, the Blue Blazers, in 1946 and formed the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band in 1972.The book is a primary document that provides information about a part of the history of American music for which there is little documentation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Beginning -- 2. Troubled Times -- 3. The Influential Years, 1916-1923 -- 4. Bill Body and his Ellwood Syncopators, 1923-1924 -- 5. Tillie Vennie's Orchestra, 1925-1926 -- 6. Odie Cromwell's Wolverine Syncopators, 1926 -- 7. Charles C Greats Original Midnite Ramblers, 1927 -- 8. Henry P. McClane's Society Orchestra, 1928 -- 9. Herbert Cowens' Orchestra, 1928 -- 10. Richard Cheatham's Orchestra, 1928 -- 11. The Whitman Sisters' Show, 1928-1929 -- 12. Dinah and His Orchestra, 1929 -- 13. Honey Broum's Orchestra (Willie Wilkins'Band), 1929-1930 -- 14. Ray Parker's Orchestra, 1930-1931 -- 15. King Oliver's New Orleans Creole Jazz Band, 1931 -- 16. Marion Hardy and His Alabamians, 1931-1932 -- 17. Billy Fowler and His Society Orchestra, 1932-1933 -- 18. Ira Coffey and His Walkathonians, 1933-1934 -- 19. Vernon Andrade and His Society Orchestra, 1934-1937 -- 20. Edgar Hayes'Orchestra, 1937-1942 -- 21. Jay McShann's Kansas City Orchestra, 1942-1943 -- 22. Cecil X. Scotfs Orchestra, 1943-1944 -- 23. Luis Russell's Orchestra, 1944 -- 24. Claude Hopkins' Orchestra, 1944 -- 25. The Bascomb Brothers' Orchestra, 1945 -- 26. The Blue Blazers, 1946-1948 -- 27. Luis Russell's Orchestra, 1948-1951 -- 28. Joe Garland's Society Orchestra, 1952-1970 -- 29. Hayes Alvis and His Pioneers of Jazz, 1972 -- 30. The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, 1972-1979 -- 31. The Legends of Jazz, 1979-1986 -- Coda -- Discography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index