[78-L] Black Europe

[Joe Scott]

Seth Weeks, who recorded on mandolin, was born in Chicago per a 1914 passport application. I like this sentence from a 1900 article about him: "Between school hours he would become so engrossed by his practice that his parents would often have to insist on his coming to a meal before he could tear himself away from his guitar."

Pete Hampton was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky and mostly recorded as a singer but also on harmonica.

As discussed here before, the Ciro's Club band were mostly from the U.S. and recorded a vocal blues before Mamie Smith did.

Banjoist Tony Tuck of the Versatile Four was born in Virginia in 1879. He was a member of the Clef Club in New York; other members of that organization included at least four members of the Ciro's Club band, Jim Europe and bandmembers, Ford Dabney, Tim Brymn, Joe Jordan, Arnold Ford who played banjo with Wilbur Sweatman, Sissle and Blake (who both didn't join until a few years after Jim Europe quit to form a competing club), Tom Bethel who wrote "That Moaning Trombone," and many others.

Joseph Scott
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You may be interested to hear that BLACK EUROPE is with the printers and will be available by mid-October. The two-volume book documents all films, cylinders and disc recordings made during the acoustic period involving people of African descent. The 45 CDs that go with the box reissue ALL recordings by those people that are known to have survived. Chapters: Introduction; Dahomey; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Spirituals; Minstrels; Human Zoo; Dance; Theatrical Shows; Recordings; Films; First World War; Paris Universal Exhibition 1899; Bohee Brothers; Jenkins Orphanage Band; Chocolat; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: South Africa; Paris World Exposition 1900; Seth Weeks; Le Cakewalk du Nouveau Cirque; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Suahili ; Belle Davis; Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman; Bert Williams; Henry Make Johnson; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Ewe; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Fulbe; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Tunisia; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Duala; Black Diamonds & Norris Smith; Pygmies; Black Troubadours; Samuel Coleridge Taylor; Will Garland; Theodore & Lavinia Wilson; Gypsy Woolf; Arabella Fields; George Jackson; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Congo; Georgia Piccaninnies; Josephine Morcashani; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Sudan; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Kamerun; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Jaunde; Tessema Eshete; Pete Zabriskie; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Senegambia; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Somali; Berlin Phonogrammarchiv: Ostafrika; Shotayo Ayedemi (C. A. W. Pratt); Walter Benson Rubusana & Palmer Mowetyana; Carlisle & Wellmon; Ernest Trimingham; Wien Phonogramm-Archiv; Daudi Chwa II & Ham Mukasa; Archives de la parole; Jack Johnson; Bob Roberts; Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra; Phonographische Kommission: Prisoners of War; Savoy Quartet; Versatile Four; Lt.Europe Hellfighters;Dan & Harvey Jazz Band; Capt. Jack Ellis; Red Devils; Joseph Boyd; Edmund Jenkins (Jack Hylton); Louis Mitchell Jazz Kings; Southern Syncopated Orchestra; Roland Hayes; Aingo Williams; Broadway Band; Rudolph Dixon (Ambrose Orchestra); Russell Jones; J. J. Ransome-Kuti; Battling Siki; Pierre de Caillaux; Lautabteilung Humboldt Universty; John Payne; Sol T. Plaatje; Pollard's Six; Gordon Stretton; George Clapham; Evelyn Dove; Layton and Johnstone; James Boucher; Cole & Martins; Roland Nathaniels; Earl Granstaff (Alex Hyde); Hatch & Carpenter; Sissle & Blake; Egbert Thompson; Ladipo Solanke; Sam Wooding; Arthur Briggs; Chocolate Kiddies & Frank Withers; Claude Hopkins; Josephine Baker; Four Harmony Kings; Harry Hednoff; Gene Bullard; Johnny Hudgins; Sara-Kaba For further details consult <www.black-europe.com> -- Dr. Rainer E. Lotz Rotdornweg 81 53177 Bonn (Germany) Tel: 0049-228-352808 Fax: 0049-228-365142 Web: www.lotz-verlag.de _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l