Fats Waller
The only man that makes the organ swing.
SMOKING WAS OBLIGATORY
in the 20s and 30s.
Schlagwort: 1930s
Cab Calloway and his orchestra with the Cotton Club Chorus at the Cotton Club, 1936.
Billie Holiday at record producer Harry Lim’s jam session, photographed by Life photographer Charles Peterson, c. 1939
Other musicians in attendance include Duke Ellington, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Hodgers, J.C. Higginbotham, Hot Lips Page and Chu Berry among others.
Big bands in color, 1934 – 1943
Featuring Glen Gray and the Casa Loma orchestra, Kay Kyser, Benny Carter, the Benny Goodman Quartet, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and Ted Fiorito.
(I originally wanted to do a video montage of these and other scenes, but I couldn’t think of a tune that fit all the clips.)
“William P. Gottlieb was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the ‘Golden Age’ of American Jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb’s photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this era of jazz.” (x)
Photographed are: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, 52nd Street, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Hill, and Lena Horne.
Scenes from 1938 Carnival of Swing concert on Randall’s Island, NY. It is considered the first outdoor jazz festival.
This comes up just as some Count Basie (from ‘38 no less) pops up on my playlist…. perfect!
