I Remember : : Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.) :; 48 illus.
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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

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