ARTIE RULES

There are many beautiful players of early jazz... Louis, Bix, Jimmy McPartland, Bobby Hackett, Phil Napoleon, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden, Fats Waller, and one of my favorites, Jabbo Smith! Some of their work can be heard here:
Red Hot Musicians

gridjam

thanks so much Artie, it's tricky for me to recommend the earlier players people to as a lot the recordings are either hard to find or are poorly reproduced. I remember (in my younger Nanaimo days) being advised to get recordings from the 'less publicized' players/founders and either not being able to find anything on them OR, finding wacky knock-offs made by some obscure Italian label!Ha....anyways, am sending all of my students here to check things out.
Thanks to all of you for insights and advice~
Off to ITG all, see you in a few.
IJ over and out
PS- I got to hear hundreds of hours of Jack and Fats as a kid, thanks to Mom's piano playing and excellent record collection....

trumpetdiva1

I’ve got one recording of Bix, lots of Louis Armstrong, and a two CD-set of Bunk Johnson, “Bunk and the New Orleans Revival, 1942-1947.” I have tons of New Orleans recordings. I used to play in a Dixieland band and a New Orleans style brass band in Pennsylvania. It was so much fun! It was a good introduction for me to improvisation.

Janell