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Annual WKCR-FM 89.9 "Eddie Durham Radio" Tribute
August 19th Host: PHIL SCHAAP www.WKCR.org Columbia U.
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Info, photos, sheet music, etc., are added each week. There are Tabs only accessible to Members, Please Join and visit often...
Eddie Durham compositions, arrangements and RECORDINGS with many Big Bands, as well as DVD's of FILMS he appears in - are now ALL easily purchased from one comprehensive link - a rare convenience!
Artist: Chuck Frazier (collage & March 13, 1987 St. Peter's Jazz Church in NYC - Funeral sketch above)
Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds 1920. Standing Left to right: Ernest Elliot, Dope Andrews, Addington Major, Leroy Parker, seated at the piano: Willie "The Lion" Smith. Standing in the center: Mamie Smith
Photo above right: EDGAR BATTLE, VALENTINE BILLINGTON and EDDIE DURHAM from Mamie Smith's 711 Show - where they played a combined 12 instruments!
Credits for All Audible Songs on this Website
All Songs Composed, co-composed and/or performed (guitar, valve or slide trombone) by EDDIE DURHAM. Details located in the sidebar TABs. Eddie plays guitar on this November 1929 recording of LORD YOU SURE BEEN GOOD TO ME - Laura Henton
D U R H A M F A M I L Y
THE DURHAM BROTHERS, SISTER and COUSINS are: JOSEPH JR. EARL EDDIE SR. MYRTLE ROOSEVELT EARL Cousins: CLYDE ALLEN HERSCHEL EVANS SYLVESTER (not in the Bands) Edgar "Puddinghead" Battle (10/03/1907 Atlanta, Georgia - 02/06/1977, New York) - Family Friend | The BANDS they were part of as Musical Director, Arranger, Engineer or recorded with, are: DOUG MORGANs CIRCUS (seeking pictures), 101 WILD RANCH CIRCUS, LAURA HENTON, BATTLE'S DIXIE RAMBLERS, MAIME SMITH's 711 SHOW, EUGENE COY's BLACK ACES, JESSE STONE, TERRANCE HOLDER, ELMER PAYNE's TEN ROYAL AMERICANS, OKLAHOMA BLUE DEVILS, BENNIE MOTEN's KC ORCH became COUNT BASIE, CAB CALLOWAY, LESTER YOUNG & THE KANSAS CITY SIX, ANDY KIRK, JIMMIE LUNCEFORD, GLENN MILLER, EDDIE DURHAM & HIS BASE FOUR, ARTIE SHAW, WILLIE BRYANT, JAN SAVITT, NAT KING COLE, BLANCHE CALLOWAY, T-BONE WALKER, LIONEL HAMPTON, LES HITE, INTN'L. SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM, SWINGING ALL STARS, BON BON TUNNEL, WYNONNIE HARRIS, SWINGER'S INC., BUDDY TATE, COUNTSMEN and last and longest: HARLEM BLUES & JAZZ BAND. |
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