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Handy, W.C. [William Christopher]
additional Music, cast, composer, cornet, lyricist, trumpet, cornet, trumpet, bandleader, guitar, leader
| born: 16 Nov 1873 |
Florence, Alabama / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| born: 16 Nov 1873 |
Muscle Shoals, Alabama / state, USA |
Source: 2 |
| died: 29 Mar 1958 |
New York / city, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 28 Mar 1958 |
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Source: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 |
| died: 28 Mar 1958 |
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| date of Variety obit: 02 Apr 1958 |
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Index
The above item is part of :
Larkin, Colin
The encyclopedia of popular music
Third edition
New York: Macmillan, 1998, 8 v.
Number of People : 43,747
Wiuklund, E.
Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy
Nye Musikken 5:58-9 N1 1996
port
Tucker, M.
In search of Will Vodery
Black Music Research Journal 16:123-82 N1 1996
app bibliog discog mus notes score
White, Evelyn Davidson
Choral music by African American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography
Second edition
Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White
Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996, 226 p.
[Index of Names]
The above item is part of :
Bloom, Ken
American song
The complete musical theater companion: 1877-1995. Volume 2: T-Z and indexes
Second edition
New York: Schirmer Books, 1996, 2093 p.
Number of People : 24,881
Studwell, William E.
The obscure popular songwriters' hall of fame : part 1, A-L
Music Reference Services Quarterly 4:30 N3 1996
abs biog
African American composers
The above item is part of :
Horne, Aaron
Baker, David N.
Brass music of black composers : a bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by David N. Baker
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996
Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.
Mahan, Katherine Hines
American composer W.C. Handy
Music Clubs Magazine 75:10 N4 1996
bibliog biog port
Off the beaten track W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band
Recordings Wrap up : W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band
Rolling Stone N704:123 Mar 23 1995
Handy, William Christopher
"I would not play jazz if I could"
Down Beat 61:14+ Jul 1994
port
Note: August 1938 issue
Reissues Memphis Blues Band (CD)
Record reviews W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band
Living Blues N117:90 Sep-Oct 1994
Johnson, J.W.
Now we have the blues
Black Sacred Music 8:64-8 N2 1994
Monceaux, Morgan
Marsalis, Wynton
Jazz : my music, my people
By Morgan Monceaux
Foreword by Wynton Marsalis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 64 p.
Morton, Jelly Roll
"I created jazz in 1902, not W.C. Handy"
Down Beat 61:10+ Jul 1994
Note: August and September 1938 issue
Neal, Larry
Sacred music of the secular city from blues to rap
The ethos of the blues
Black Sacred Music 6:36-46 N1 1992
Debord, Brigitte
Herzhaft, Gerard
Encyclopedia of the blues
Translated by Brigitte Debord
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992, 513 p.
Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.
Number of People : 5,680
Graham, R.
Letters to the editor The roots of slide
Living Blues N106:5 Nov-Dec 1992
Giddins, Gary
WeatherBird Birthday blues
Village Voice: 37:82 Aug 4 1992
biog port
Note: 80th anniversary of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues
[major article]
The above item is part of :
Roach, Hildred
Black American music : past and present
Second edition
Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992, 3668 p.
Dorough, Prince
Popular-music culture in America
New York: Ardsley House Publishers Inc., c1992, 352 p.
Blanc, Michael la
Contemporary musicians volume 7
Edited by Michael LaBlanc
Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1992, 291 p.
Still, W.G.
The William Grant Still reader : the writings of Still : a composer's viewpoint
Black Sacred Music 6:215-31 N2 1992
Barlow, William
Morgan, Thomas L.
From cakewalks to concert halls.
An illustrated history of African American popular music from 1895 to 1930
By Thomas L. Morgan and William Barlow
Washington, DC: Elliot & Clark, 1992, 132 p.
Bierley, Paul E.
Rehrig, William H.
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music
Edited by Paul E. Bierley
William H. Rehrig
Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991
Number of People : 8,916
Horne, Aaron
Lerma, Dominique-Rene de
String music of black composers
A bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by Dominique-Rene de Lerma
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991
(Series: Music Reference Collection; 33)
Lagne, Horst H.
Als der Jazz begann 1916-1923 : Von der "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
Bis zu King Olivers "Creole Jazz Band"
Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1991, 128 p.
Danner, Peter
Return with us now; Soundboard's featured facsimile; St. Louis Blues by W.C. Handy/Wm. Foden
Soundboard 18:45-9 N1 1991
score
Arniac, Jean-Pierre
Encyclopedie du blues
Photographies de Jean-Pierre Arniac
Rounding up reviews Father of the Blue Tune.
Iajrc Journal 23:83 N4 1990
Barlow, W.
"Fattening frogs for snakes" : blues and the music industry
Popular Music and Society 14:7-35 N2 1990
bibliog
Record reviews Father of the Blue Tune.
Jazz Journal International 43:31-2 Jun 1990
Clarke, Donald
The Penguin encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Donald Clarke
London: Viking, 1989, 1378 p.
Number of People : 4,498
Ottenheimer, Harriet J.
The blues tradition in St. Louis
Black Music Research Journal 9:136-8 N2 1989
bibliog discog score
Records That Handy Man
Mississippi Rag: 15:24 Apr 1988
Note: Hot Cotton Jazz Band
Kernfeld, Barry Dean
The new Grove dictionary of jazz
Edited by Barry Kernfeld
London: Macmillan Press, 1988
Number of People : 3,377
Suppan, Wolfgang
Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens
3. Auflage des Lexikons des Blasmusikwesens
Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit dem Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbande
Freiburg-Tiengen: Blasmusikverlag Schulz, 1988, 386 p.
Number of People : 2,925
Lyons, J.
Rag bag
Mississippi Rag: 15:10 Jul 1988
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black music biography : an annotated bibliography
White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987
Blues : an Anthology. W.C. Handy and A. Niles.
Coda Magazine: N213:35 Apr-May 1987
Note: N.Y., Da Capo, 1985. 3d ed reprint of 1972 ed
Ewen, David
American songwriters. An H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1987
Rose, Al
I remember jazz : six decades among the great jazzmen
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987
Gladwell, B.
Sound & Vision
Crescendo International 24:6 Oct 1987
Note: film, St. Louis Blues
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Whitburn, Joel
Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954
The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1986, 657 p.
Number of People : 1,376
Polls : Tales of Mr. Crump.
Melody Maker, vol. 41, March 26, 1986. p. 8
Smith, Norman E.
March music notes
Lake Charles, La.: Program Note Press, 1986
Carter, Madison H.
An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry
New York: Vantage Press, 1986
Roach, Hildred
Black American music. Past and present
Vol. I
Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger, 1985
Chilton, John
Simmen, John
Who's who of jazz : Storyville to Swing Street
Foreword by John Simmen
London: Macmillan, 1985, 175 p.
Number of People : 1,172
Records Johnny Maddox Plays the Memphis Blues.
Mississippi Rag: 12:10 Feb 1985
Burnett, Brown
Honoring the Blues and W.C. Handy.
Fanfare [Memphis Commercial Appeal] 18 November 1984, p. 13.
Brooks, Tilford
America's black musical heritage
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984, 336 p.
Southern, Eileen
Readings in black American music
Second edition
Compiled and edited by Eileen Southern
New York: W.W. Norton, 1983, 338 p.
White, Mark
You must remember this ... : popular songwriters 1900-1980
London: Frederick Warner, 1983
Handy, Lynn, Smith are inducted into NSAI Hall.
Billboard 95:54 Oct 22 1983
Yale, Andrew
The Son of the Blues : Horn Wyer Handy Keeps his Father's Traditions Alive.
Memphis 8, no. 5 (August 1983):49-53.
Rattenbury, K.
Thesis Master bluesman : 7. W.C. Handy and St. Louis Blues
Crescendo International 21:32 Apr 1983
illustr.
Handy, C.
Record reviews Cat Anderson Plays W
Jazz Journal International 35:26 Sep 1982
Anderson, E. Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
Second edition
Compiled by E. Ruth Anderson
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p.
Number of People : 3,986
Giddins, Gary
Licks : Rebirth of the blues
Village Voice: 26:68 Mar 18 1981
Note: 'tribute to W.C. Handy' at Carnegie Hall
Jeske, Lee
W.C. Handy
Jazz Journal International 34:18 May 1981
Talent in action
Billboard 93:33 Apr 11 1981
Note: "W.C. Handy Salute"
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
Recreation of Handy concert (1928)
Black Perspective in Music: 9:110 N1 1981
facs p112-14
White, Evelyn Davidson
Choral music by Afro-American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography
Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 167 p.
Hyman, D.
Re-creating a W.C. Handy concert
illustr.
Performer Index : Instrumentalists
p. 311-366 In:
Myers, Kurtz
Index to record reviews
Compiled and edited by Kurtz Myers
Vol. 5: indexes
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1980, 664 p.
Number of People : 6,053
Handy's Trumpet, B.B.'s Guitar in Blues Museum.
Jet 58, no. 15 (26 June 1980):58.
Press, Jaques Cattell
ASCAP biographical dictionary of composers, authors and publishers
Fourth edition
Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and publishers by Jaques Cattell Press
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1980, 589 p.
Number of People : 8,161
In retrospect Letters from W.C. Handy to William Grant Still, with notes by E. Southern
Black Perspective in Music: 8:65-119 N1 1980
il ports
Performer Index : Speakers
p. 413-417 In:
Myers, Kurtz
Index to record reviews
Compiled and edited by Kurtz Myers
Vol. 5: indexes
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1980, 664 p.
Clayton, R.
Handy Blues Awards Nov. 16
Billboard 92:65 Nov 15 1980
Note: new awards
Black power in the 1920's
Chapter 2 In:
Sampson, Henry T.
Blacks in blackface
A source book on early black musical shows
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 552 p.
Thomas Pinkston's Death Breaks a Link to Handy.
Living Blues nos. 45-46 (Spring 1980):94.
Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Number of People : 20,506
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Clayton, R.
W.C. Handy's blues are celebrated
Billboard 91:37 Nov 24 1979
Note: Memorial Day
Southern, Eileen
Letters from W.C. Handy to William Grant Still.
Black Perspective in Music 7, no. 2 (Fall 1979):199-234.
Southern, Eileen
In retrospect Letters from W.C. Handy to William Grant Still
Black Perspective in Music: 7:199-234 N2 1979
il ports
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Handy collection at Fisk
Black Perspective in Music: 7:109-11 N1 1979
illustr.
Palmer, Robert
A tale of two cities : Memphis rock and New Orleans roll
(Series: I.S.A.M. Monographs; 12)
Artists' Index
p. 1754-1845 In:
Rust, Brian
Jazz records 1897-1942
4th revised and enlarged edition
Vol. 2: Abe Lyman to Bob Zurke
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978, 1996 p.
Number of People : 9,605
Lucas, J.
Bicentennial Canticles.
Second Line, vol. 28, Summer 1978. p. 7-8
Dobie, W.
Not All Jazz Historians Remember W.C. Handy's 1928 Carnegie Concert.
Swinging Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 35, 1978. p. 5
Lucas, J.
Music of the Mississippi.
Second Line, vol. 30, Winter 1978. p. 28-29
Concert Reviews.
Variety, vol. 283, June 2, 1976, p. 52
Note: Review of a concert in the District of Columbia in honor of Handy.
Berindei, Mihai
Dictionaire de jazz
Bucuresti: Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1976, 289 p.
Number of People : 768
Anderson, Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
1st ed.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 513 p.
Number of People : 3,758
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
Kinkle, Roger D.
The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950
New Rochelle, N. Y.: Arlington, 1974
Number of People : 2,098
Starks, G.L.
Tribute to W.C. Handy and the Blues Tradition.
Black World, vol. 23, April 1974. p. 49-50
Handy Portrait 1st Black to Hang in Tenn. Capitol.
Jet, vol. 43, March 15, 1973. p. 55
Jansen, David
Recorded ragtime 1897-1958
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / Shoe String Press, 1973, 155 p.
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