[78-L] Interracial recording hillbilly vs. jazz

[Joe Scott]

One of the chapters in the recent book Hidden In The Mix: The African American Presence In Country Music claims that the two largest categories of interracial recording before about 1933 were vaudeville blues (Mamie Smith with Joseph Samuels' band type stuff) followed by hillbilly. That's incorrect, there were more jazz than hillbilly. The writer apparently doesn't know that trumpeter Bill Moore's sessions with the likes of Tommy Dorsey were interracial sessions, e.g., which reminds us that if you compare one thing to another you should know about the other.
Reminds me, another recent book, Black Recording Artists by Gibbs, he doesn't seem very interested in Achille Baquet or Bill Moore either.
Joseph Scott