About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Benny Goodman, Johnny Hodges, Humphrey Lyttelton, Barney Bigard, Edmond Hall, Lester Young, Woody Herman, Benny Carter, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Leon Breeden, Pee Wee Russell, Kenny Davern, Don Redman, Harry Carney, Alix Combelle, Walt Levinsky, Hal Kemp, Fess Williams, Peanuts Hucko, Buddy Tate, Ken Peplowski, Opie Cates, Otto Hardwick, Jimmy Hamilton, Joe Marsala, Budd Johnson, Irving Fazola, John LaPorta, Russell Procope, Omer Simeon, Matty Matlock, Emil Mangelsdorff, Shoji Suzuki, Phil Nimmons, Benny Waters, Eddie Miller, Harlan Leonard, Craig Ball, Hubert Rostaing, Tommy Douglas. Excerpt: Edmond Hall (15 May 1901, Reserve, Louisiana - 11 February 1967, Boston) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. His father Edward Blainey Hall and mother Caroline Duhe had eight children, Priscilla (1893), Moretta (1895), Viola (1897), Robert (1899), Edmond (1901), Clarence (1903), Edward (1905) and Herbert (Herb, 1907). Born in Reserve, Louisiana, about 40 miles (64 km) west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, Hall and his siblings were born into a very musical family. Not only did father Edward play the clarinet in the Onward Brass Band, but on his mother's side there were musicians as well, Jules Duhe played the trombone, Uncle Lawrence Duhe the clarinet and uncle Edmond the guitar. Robert, Edmond and Herbert would all become clarinetists, but before picking up the clarinet Edmond was taught guitar by his uncle Edmond Duhe. When Ed Hall finally picked up the clarinet, "He could play it within a week. He started Monday and played it Saturday." his brother Herb recalls in an interview with Manfred Selchow who wrote the most outstanding Edmond Hall Biography (A Bio-Discographical Scrapbook on Edmond Hall), 640 pages, Profoundly Blue, which provided the material for all the information here. Ed Hall worked as a ...
