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Stomp Off: 2012
Here is another track from the Elmer Snowden Sextet session of February 2, 1962, the second of two lively affairs with this stellar and—some reviewers thought—unorthodox group. It was assembled solely...
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Stomp Off: 2009
Having received the go-ahead from Bill Grauer, I started pursuing contacts in Chicago and lining up artists. Billie Wallington sent out a press release that was picked up by Variety and produced a cal...
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Stomp Off: How reliable is the jazz press?
The other day I was checking out some jazz blogs when I came across an interesting entry, Subject(ive) to Criticism , on Chris Kelsey's exce...
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Stomp Off: March 2012
Followers
FROM ALBERTA HUNTER'S SCRAPBOOK...
My good friend, Alberta Hunter enjoyed a very long career during which she toured extensively on her own and, during WWII and the Korean Conflict, as they...
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Stomp Off: February 2010
My cousin Ann and I were the same age, but we grew up in very different environments. My mother's four husbands ranged from my father, who abandoned her before I had my first birthday, to a loving sel...
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Stomp Off: Visit to a Buffet Flat
Buffet Flats, sometimes called Goodtime Flats, were small, privately owned unlicensed clubs where customers could engage in such mu...