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Scan from page one of "Adolphus 'Doc' Cheatham" two-record set released by the label Jezebel Records. The top 2/3rds of the page has a picture of the Albert Wynn Band at the Dreamland Cafe in 1926, with Doc Cheatham, Al Wynn (1907-1973), and Brownie McGhee (1915-1996) in the front row from left to right, and an unidentified musician, Silas White, Ben Thigpen (1908-1971), Gerald Hobsen, and Jimmy Flowers in the back row from left to right. The notes quotes an article by jazz historian Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) on Cheatham, the book Who's Who of Jazz by John Chilton (1932-2016) on Cheatham's early-middle career, and Cheatham himself on how he became a musician. Cheatham wrote that he began playing drums, then switched to cornet, in the Bright Future Stars band, which met at the Philips Chapel in Nashville; each practice cost 25 cents.

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Title:
Excerpt from Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham record booklet
Creator:
Jezebel Records
Date Created:
1973
Description:
Scan from page one of "Adolphus 'Doc' Cheatham" two-record set released by the label Jezebel Records. The top 2/3rds of the page has a picture of the Albert Wynn Band at the Dreamland Cafe in 1926, with Doc Cheatham, Al Wynn (1907-1973), and Brownie McGhee (1915-1996) in the front row from left to right, and an unidentified musician, Silas White, Ben Thigpen (1908-1971), Gerald Hobsen, and Jimmy Flowers in the back row from left to right. The notes quotes an article by jazz historian Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) on Cheatham, the book Who's Who of Jazz by John Chilton (1932-2016) on Cheatham's early-middle career, and Cheatham himself on how he became a musician. Cheatham wrote that he began playing drums, then switched to cornet, in the Bright Future Stars band, which met at the Philips Chapel in Nashville; each practice cost 25 cents.
Subjects:
jazz musician trumpet jezebel records dreamland cafe record booklet nat hentoff john hilton philips chapel, nashville, tennessee bright future stars band cornet record
Musicians:
Joe Thomas Marion Hardy John "Bearcat" Williams Albert Wynn Bobby Lee Wilbur de Paris Chick Webb Sam Wooding Cab Calloway Teddy Wilson Benny Carter Fletcher Henderson Eddie Haywood Claude Hopkins Marcelino Guerra Perez Prado Vic Dickenson Benny Goodman Sammy Orice Herbie Mann Ma Rainey Count Basie Max Kaminsky Pee Wee Russell John Hardy Juanita Hall
Location:
Jezebel Records, Allentown, PA
Latitude:
40.61217329
Longitude:
-75.48927333
Source:
Doc Cheatham Papers, 1892-1995, IJC MG 8, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Source Identifier:
ijcmg008_b001_f005-008
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf

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"Excerpt from Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham record booklet", Doc Cheatham Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/cheatham/items/cheatham024.html
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