Arabella and the Water Tank – Doodles Weaver
There are strange films in the World of Soundies. Strange and bizarre ones. Soundies where you say to yourself, “What were they thinking?” Then there
There are strange films in the World of Soundies. Strange and bizarre ones. Soundies where you say to yourself, “What were they thinking?” Then there
Disc Jockey was a “B” feature film produced by Monogram Pictures in 1951, and released by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Allied Artists. Although Allied Artists had originally
Valaida Snow was born in 1904 and appears to have been a musical prodigy of sorts. She made her show business debut at age three,
During the 1920s there were relative few jazz artists who specialized on the bass saxophone, and none were Adrian Rollini’s equal in terms of inventiveness,
called The Vs. The group was so named because of the letter ‘V” in each of the names of the members of the trio: Willie
In the mid-to-late 1940s, and into the early 1950s, changing tastes and the harsh economic realities of leading a big band resulted in almost all
Next year we celebrate the centennial of one of the most important artists in all of jazz, Nat “King” Cole. Although loved and respected today
Spade Cooley’s publicists dubbed him “The King of Western Swing,” and in some ways this was true. The Cooley band was immensely popular, holding the