Here's a small treasure for all those who love this kind of jazz and would kill to have been present: a flier for a series of 52nd Street jam session at Jimmy Ryan's, starting on September 27, 1942. Click on it and you'll discover a who's who of jazz in the early 1940s:
FIVE MINUTES OF BEAUTY: BOBBY GORDON, JOHN SHERIDAN, MARTY GROSZ, HAL SMITH
(Jazz at Chautauqua 1995 or 1996)
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Eddie Condon would say that this music comes in the ear like honey, and who
would argue? Something so pretty, from Joe Boughton’s own mixtape of
favorites ...
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And there, with Billie and Hot Lips Page, among the who's who of jazz is my friend Ruby Smith (nee Walker), Bessie's trusty companion and niece by marriage.
ResponderEliminarInteresting document—thanks Augustín.