I LOVE this website: RedHotJazz.com

Subject: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 01:04 AM

This may be old hat to some of you, but I just discovered a website totally new to me, and I am in seventh heaven! It's called "Red Hot Jazz" and has detailed (and from what I've gathered so far pretty correct) information on literally hundreds of early players and bands. And ya can LISTEN while you learn! I had never actually heard the immortal Freddie Keppard (New Orleans' 2nd great cornetist) but now I have. I spent about three hours last night (while contemplating turning 53...by the way thanks, folks) listening to Red MacKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers, Bix, Papa Charlie Jackson, Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Pops Foster and even the very first recordings of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. If you like old Jazz and blues, give it a try. clicky

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Quirk Malarkey
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 01:19 AM

BLOODY HELL ! Rick. thank you for the clicky thing.i am entertained and delighted. wish i could kiss you(in a brotherly sort of way, lad).--doodlezak

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rincon Roy
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 02:16 AM

Shoot, Spent part o' last week at San Diego's Annual Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Fest. Had so much fun: "primed the pump" for hearing more of those fine old sounds and here you are openning just the right door.Thanks Rick! (Black Swan Jazz Band from Oregon somewhere was tops) RR

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Escamillo
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 03:00 AM

Please, Maestro! Don't tell me about another place like this, 'cause I have to work a little, too. (and pay the phone bill :( )
Yours, Andrés Magré

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 06:52 AM

Geeziz, whadda' site!!! If I wasn't so cheap, I'd spring for the movie player gizwah thingy to check out the clips. Bookmarked this one...great Real Audio stuff. Interesting write-up under "INFO" about the copyright laws too.

So Rick...At your advanced age, how were you able to locate such a site? ....and how were the nine seconds?

Spaw

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 11:51 AM

Doodlezak, DON"T kiss me! A simple "thank you" will be fine.
Spaw. I've been reading "We Called It Music" by charming hustler Eddie Condon, and was browsing the web. As usual I found it by accident.
I'm also reading an amazingly badly written bio called "Dylan", by some no nothing (music-wise) author called Spitz, about a very talented collosal jerk.
Last week I read Bill Wyman's "Stone Alone" where the first chapter is devoted to him explaining why "most 52 year old men should marry 12 year olds"!
Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Dec 99 - 10:01 PM

I've just finished "We Called it Music". What a marvellous book. If you love traditional jazz, and contemporary pictures and vignets (sp?) of the men (and women) who made it, go to your library and grab a copy. His discription of playing on cruise ships (in 1922) is priceless. Also from a technical point of view, he talks about a very little known Gibson product, the "lute guitar". Even George Gruhn was pretty ignorant about that baby. Well here's it's origins.
Damn, it just occurred to me that in my enthusiasm I did a stupid thing in the naming of this thread. I should have been specific (cause I DO want folks to check this out!) rather than general. Many Cats who've become gunshy about non-musical threads probably thought the website I was touting was about hamsters, or cats or something!
Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: _gargoyle
Date: 03 Dec 99 - 10:10 PM

THANX...this is one great site....will spend a chunk of "yard cleaning" weekend there.

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: thosp
Date: 04 Dec 99 - 12:04 AM

a great big simple thanks Rick!

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 04 Dec 99 - 12:22 AM

I'm in heaven. Reading Mudcat threads and listening to Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. Just finished 6 songs by one of my heroes Lonnie Johnson along with the great Mr. Lang playing contrapuntal lines beneath Lonnie's soloing. I don't ask for much, but from now on who the hell needs ANY TV?
Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Willie-O
Date: 04 Dec 99 - 08:41 PM

Rick you devil, you have ruined my life. I'd love to stay and chat but I must return and start another tune going.

Now THAT'S what multimedia is good for!

Bill C

p.s. I had no idea you were practically 1/2way through your life....my condolences.

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 Dec 99 - 01:10 AM

Just got home from a gig. Now I can relax and listen to Jelly Roll Morton, and see what's goin' on at Mudcat.
Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From:
Date: 05 Dec 99 - 09:49 PM

AWSOME PLACE! THANKS RICK

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 11:21 AM

greetings Rick. I too loved that site and thanks for bringing it forward. Vintage jazz is one of my great loves in music and was one of the ways in which I got into folk music - a 'backward circle' thus:- Jazz, blues, USA folksong -Black. USA folksong -White. British folk, English folk. A wonderful journey. I've never quite lost touch with jazz. This site adds to my enjoyment. By the way, outside of jazz. Are you still singing 'Go to schol no more'? Heard you sing it at Mystic.

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 12:27 PM

Yeah Burl. It didn't make the cut on the new album "This One's The Dreamer", cause there were several songs in the same key. I still sing it live though, and will get it on the next album.

If anyone wants to hear the first multi-track recording (pre-Les Paul) check out Sidney Bechet on "Red Hot Jazz". It's awesome. He plays tenor, soprano, piano, bass and drums!

Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 09:16 PM

Great stuff. Listening to Bix Beiderbecke while messing around in tghe Mudcat Cafe. Thanks. Ain't this technology amazing, if you use it right?

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 10:11 PM

Unbelievable site Rick. Much to learn here.
Unfortunately I can't seem to get the music to play. I have to download something at www.realcom in progressive networks. I'm having some difficulties because I'm not too computer literate. I'll have to seek some help.

BB

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 10:24 PM

Rick, I've got an idea. Why don't I just borrow your jazz records and when I'm reading about a particular artist, I'll just play the album.

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Paul B
Date: 06 Dec 99 - 10:35 PM

I LOVE this website, great folk music! "Housewives lament"!!!!

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 02:40 PM

Thanks for the link, Rick, I may have to spend less time on the Mudcat to allow time to explore it.
RtS

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 05:33 PM

I have to confess, I'm being a bit evangelical about keeping this around, for a couple of reasons. Number one, the holiday season can be a serious strain on some folks, and trad jazz is better than Prozac. Also I keep discovering more REALLY obscure recordings and get enthused all over again. Thanks for your patience.
Rick

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 06:08 PM

Rick, I think it is a Citizen's Duty to rename this thread and start it again.
Why not call it....... Say No To Prozac Yes To Jazz

Just a thought,
BB

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 06:42 PM

Have another piece of pie Rick.

Spaw

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:09 PM

I don't understand Catspaw, what do you mean?

BB

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Mike Billo
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:16 PM

Alright Rick! Finding as much as I can of Red McKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers has been sort of a "Holy Grail" for me for quite some time. This is a real find.

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 07:24 PM

Hey BB......I sent Rick and Heather a recipe for Buttermilk Pie. You cannot be depressed eating Buttermilk Pie. Ask Rick.

Spaw

Subject: RE: I LOVE this website!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 09:42 AM

Okay Rick, if your not going to start a new thread, then I'll contribute to refreshing this one. I'd create a New Thread Title for this one but I haven't mastered the 'blue clicky thing' yet. And if I get a reputation for posting too much, may is at least be put to a good cause.

And......... I finally got the music sound going.
What is in that buttermilk pie?

BB