I hid this away as an aside in the "types of banjo" thread. Perhaps it needs an airing in its own right?
I have a cassette of this name featuring HR doing virtuoso rags, blues and novelty numbers (like "Kitten on the keys")on tenor(I assume) banjo with a piano accompanist. I gather from the notes he lived till mid-1960s (recordings were from 1920s-30s) wrote guitar and banjo instruction books and ended in pit orchestras of Broadway theatres.
In my ignorant opinion he sounds up there with Osman and Van Epps but I've not heard of him in any of my jazz reference books or mentioned here by the banjo fraternity.
Any opinions or information?
RtS