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3 Books about

EDDIE DURHAM

( On Amazon.com )

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In Volume 1 "VIRTUOSITY" Eddie's brothers/cousins attended music school daily where they learned multiple instruments and to read and notate music - very unusual for African Indian Americans.They toured with SW circus,vaudeville and minstrel troupes. As a result, Eddie became a master arranger, composer, trombonist and guitarist.

 

Major Band leaders, black and white, hired his unique ability to produce big-band swing music HITS: Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, The Sweethearts of Rhythm, Harry James. He masterminded the "dueling tenors" of Lester Young and (Eddie's cousin) Herschel Evans; Choreographed Brass Sections; Co-composed "I Don't Want To Set The World on Fire" for The Ink Spots; and he arranged the NARAS Hall of Fame hit: "In The Moodfor Glenn Miller !

 

Eddie recorded the first amplified guitar on "Honey Keep Your Mind On Me". Eddie recorded on a resonated guitar on "Hittin' the Bottle" - both BIG hits; John Hammond, Sr., produced Eddie showcasing the first American electric guitar on the classics: "The Lester Young Sessions". In 1940, Eddie recorded a new esoteric sound on guitar of "I Want A Little Girl" and "Magic Carpet." The book VIRTUOSITY ends at World War II, all-girl orchestras. Volume 2, "Eddie Durham and the Ladies of Jazz," explores his amazing story touring with all girls for 5 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speech at Julliard 2024

 

Reviews, Interviews...:

JAZZ ON THE TUBE audio interview by Lester Perkins

South Texas Jazz Project: audio Interview by DJ Kory Cook 

SAN MARCOS DAILY RECORD

Texas State Historical Asso. - disquisition by Dave Oliphant

Eddie Durham Media Collection - TSU

THE SYNCOPATED TIMES article by David Radlauer

JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM audio interview by Loren Schoenberg

PICTORIAL DISCOGRAPHY YouTube videos

ALL ABOUT JAZZ Author profile

Let's SWING  - DANCE Classes in HARLEM, NY

Copyright Law AKBLLP.com

Swingin' the Blues series (Volume 4):

Eddie Durham with the

Harlem Blues & Jazz Band - tour with the legends - over 100 pictures!

"Tour Itinerary & Diary" of

Manager, Albert Vollmer

Volume4: 1977-1987 "The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band". Also includes a 1985 tour with Mama LuParks & The Savoy Lindyhoppers!

Book Cover Art by BRIAN KRAMER

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Volume One Reviews & Interviews:

"THE VIRTUOSITY OF EDDIE DURHAM"

"JAZZ AROUND TOWN" by Scott Yanow

"JAZZ RAG MAG": Issue#169 Winter 2022 by Ron Simpson (J.Witherspoon on the cover)

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