What Is This Thing Called Love, Part 1, by British Modern Jazz by tajmahalfoxtrot1 “The rostrum was surrounded with people who were content to stand and watch and that semi-circle …
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Not much is know about Georges Leonardi, the trombone player on this track by Teddy Weatherford and his Band titled I’ve Got a Bone to Pick With You, except that …
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Like many colonial towns, pre-war Rangoon had its share of clubs at which the upper classes sought diversion. The Pegu was the town’s most prestigious establishment, but the Rangoon Gymkhana …
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The glamorous woman in this photo turned 90 a few weeks ago. Peggy Gilbert now lives in Canada but like Reuben Solomon and his family, who I wrote about recently …
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A few months ago, I wrote this piece about Reuben Solomon and his Jive Boys, the band headed by a Baghdadi Jewish clarinet player from Burma who trekked to Calcutta …
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This week from the Marco Pacci collection, a recording from 1942 by the Anglo-Indian bandleader Ken Mac. The vocalist is Poona-born Beryl Templeman. Two years before this track was cut, …