Red Hot Jazz Archive: Annette Hanshaw biography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Annette Hanshaw was a popular singer and radio star of the 1920s and early Thirties who had many Jazz overtones in... >>read more
Louis Armstrong biography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities, the... >>read more
Ethel Waters biography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Ethel Waters was one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. She moved to New York in 1919 after touring... >>read more
Hoagy Carmichael biography and discography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Hoagy Carmichael is remembered today as one of America's great composers of popular songs. Several of his tunes, like... >>read more
Red Hot Jazz: Jimmy Durante biography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians. Before Jimmy Durante became one of the most famous and lovable entertainers of the Twentieth Century, he was a hot piano player and... >>read more
Buddy Blue plays jump blues, or "Greasy Jass", if you will. His music and this site kick the snot out of all swing revivalist posers.
1981
Buddy forms roots band The Rockin' Roulettes, resumes drug use, marries bitchy girlfriend. Leaves her a month later when she notifies him he must choose between her and the... >>read more
Red Hot Jazz: Jimmy Dorsey biography by Ted Gottsegan. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Tommy was a hot player at heart, having recorded a few hot sides by 1927 and continued to play with smaller ensembles throughout his... >>read more