I remember : eighty years of black entertainment, big bands, and the blues : an autobiography / by jazz trombonist and blues singer Clyde E.B. Bernhardt ; as told to Sheldon Harris.

Author/creator Bernhardt, Clyde E. B.
Other author Harris, Sheldon.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Descriptionxix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword / by John F. Szwed -- Preface / by Sheldon Harris -- The beginning -- Troubled times -- The influential years, 1916-1923 -- Bill Eady and His Ellwood Syncopators, 1923-1924 -- Tillie Vennie's Orchestra, 1925-1926 -- Odie Cromwell's Wolverine Syncopators, 1926 -- Charles C. Grear's Original Midnite Ramblers, 1927 -- Henry P. McClane's Society Orchestra, 1928 -- Herbert Cowens' Orchestra, 1928 -- Richard Cheatham's Orchestra, 1928 -- The Whitman Sisters' Show, 1928-1929 -- Dinah and His Orchestra, 1929 -- Honey Brown's Orchestra (Willie Wilkins' Band), 1929-1930 -- Ray Parker's Orchestra, 1930-1931 -- King Oliver's New Orleans Creole Jazz Band, 1931 -- Marion Hardy and His Alabamians, 1931-1932 -- Billy Fowler and His Society Orchestra, 1932-1933 -- Ira Coffey and His Walkathonians, 1933-1934 -- Vernon Andrade and His Society Orchestra, 1934-1937 -- Edgar Hayes' Orchestra, 1937-1942 -- Jay McShann's Kansas City Orchestra, 1942-1943 -- Cecil X. Scott's Orchestra, 1943-1944 -- Luis Russell's Orchestra, 1944 -- Claude Hopkins' Orchestra, 1944 -- The Bascomb Brothers' Orchestra, 1945 -- The Blue Blazers, 1946-1948 -- Luis Russell's Orchestra, 1948-1951 -- Joe Garland's Society Orchestra, 1952-1970 -- Hayes Alvis and His Pioneers of Jazz, 1972 -- The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, 1972-1979 -- The Legends of Jazz, 1979-1986.
Abstract This is a firsthand account of the world of black American music told by a man who has been part of that world for 80 years. Bernhardt began his career in the early 1920s, and by 1927, was touring with Charlie Grear's Midnite Ramblers and the Whitman Sisters Company. In the 1930s he worked in nightclubs and dancehalls with bands, including King Oliver's New Orleans Creole Jazz Band and Marion Hardy's Alabamians, and toured Europe with the Edgar Hayes Orchestra. He also worked with the orchestras of Cecil Scott, Luis Russel, Claude Hopkins, and Joe Garland and started his own Blue Blazers, the Harlem Bands, and Jazz Band. The volume is full of vivid descriptions and anecdotes about the music that was created and the musicians who created it. It also includes many rare and historically important photographs and a complete discography of Clyde's recordings.
Local noteLittle-256293
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: pages 249-251.
Bibliography noteDiscography: pages 231-248.
LCCN 85026355
ISBN0812280180 (alk. paper)
ISBN0812212231 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML419.B298 A3 1986 ✔ Available Place Hold