To mark the 2009 centenary of Stuff Smith’s birth a pamphlet has been printed in a small edition presenting STUFF SMITH AND THE ALPHONSO TRENT ORCHESTRA: A NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTO Not illustrated below. Available only direct from AB on enquiry
Anthony Barnett DESERT SANDS
THE RECORDINGS AND PERFORMANCES OF STUFF SMITH
AN ANNOTATED DISCOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE BOOK including the supplement UP JUMPED THE DEVIL and cassette with broadcasts
1995/1998, 448 large A4 format pages, rugged sewn cardbound, over 100 illustrations, 2-vol. set 0 907954 25 1, £66; €112; US$ enquire Purchasers of the original single volume Desert Sands can obtain the supplement Up Jumped the Devil direct from England on enquiry
The complete two volume set, not the supplement alone, is also available through our USA distributors
Finalist ARSC Awards for Excellence 1995
Stuff Smith PURE AT HEART 2: ANECDOTES & INTERVIEWS Edited by A. Barnett
new completely reset and augmented 2nd edition of book first published in 1991 with
previously unpublished autobiographical material, interview by Val Wilmer, previously unpublished photos
none of this material is included in Desert Sands
2002, 72 standard A5 format pages, paperback, ISBN 0 907954 34 0, £15; €26; US$ enquire
Anthony Barnett BLACK GYPSY
THE RECORDINGS OF EDDIE SOUTH
AN ANNOTATED DISCOGRAPHY AND ITINERARY including cassette with broadcasts and with Foreword by Leroy Jenkins
1999, 128 large A4 format pages, rugged sewn cardbound, over 60 illustrations, 0 907954 26 X, £48; €80; US$ enquire Finalist ARSC Awards for Excellence 1999
IMPORTANT
Substantial corrections and additions to Stuff Smith: Desert Sands/Up Jumped the Devil are included in vols 3 & 4
and to Eddie South: Black Gypsy in vol. 4
of the following journal available only direct from England, however, the relevant pages are now
posted online here at the ends of the Smith and South sub pages to the journal update page
scroll to the link lower down
FABLE BULLETIN: VIOLIN IMPROVISATION STUDIES Anthony Barnett, Editor
Special features incl. interviews, discography, photos, music scores on
Emilio Cáceres; Regina Carter; India Cooke; Malcolm Goldstein incl. Ornette Coleman score
Leroy Jenkins; Harry Lookofsky incl. Clifford Brown score; Jim Nolet; Dick Wetmore; Juice Wilson Discographical and bio-discographical features incl. photos, documents on
Elek Bacsik; Julio Bella; Clarence Black; Ray Biondi/Remo Biondi; Al Duffy; Darnell Howard; Ray Nance
Paul Nero; Hal Otis; Ray Perry; Edgar Sampson; Ginger Smock incl. scores; Eddie South
Early African-American Jazz and Blues and String Band Violinists, etc Notes from the Archive incl. reprints on
19th Century; Sam Caplan; Harriett Wilson Miscellaneous notes, rare and unpublished photos, etc on
blues, swing, bebop, avant-garde, new music, women violinists, European violinists Corrections and additions to
Stuff Smith Desert Sands/Up Jumped the Devil and Eddie South Black Gypsy
1993–2000, 4-vols in 13-parts of which vol. 1 originally looseleaf parts and vols 2–4 originally bound pb with unbound supplements note that only vols 2 and 4 remain as originally issued; all other vols may be supplied as unbound photocopies
ISSN 0969–5214, 4-vol. set ISBN 0 907954 45 6
the complete set may be available on enquiry but bear in mind that time-consuming photocopying will be reflected in a high price
Libraries holding complete sets of Fable Bulletin: Violin Improvisation Studies include
National Sound Archive, British Library; Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, NJ; Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago
Belmont University, Nashville; Concordia University, Montréal; National Jazz Foundation, Loughton Public Library, Essex
Jazz-Institut, Darmstadt; Musikafdelingen, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, Det fynske Musikkonservatorium, Odense
Jazz Oktási és Kutatási Alapítvány, Budapest; Music Collections, National Library of Singapore
Istanbul Technical University
The wide range of subjects will delight anyone interested in the violin’s role in jazz
and surprise those who view it with disfavor or prejudice – Jazz Times
Anyone with a serious interest in jazz fiddle should look into this series – Strings
Every improvising violinist should have it – Cadence
Exemplary research – The Strad
The editor is a contributor to Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues (2005)
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000); New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2001)
and later Grove online editions
Desert Sands/Up Jumped the Devil / Black Gypsy / Fable Bulletin: Violin Improvisation Studies
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Beware an incomplete error-ridden counterfeit extraction and appropriation of Desert Sands entitled
Stuff Smith Discography not bearing the AB imprint advertised for sale over the internet and elsewhere
JOE VENUTI
PRIVATELY PUBLISHED 1953 BIOGRAPHY
James Baxter, inspired by Robert White THE BLUE VIOLIN
Probably published Philadelphia, 1953, 167pp, spiral bound, reproduced from typescript
Privately issued uncatalogued biography of Joe Venuti and his “Blue Violin”
Internal evidence provides the date and likely place of this fanciful account whose
commissioner White of Philadelphia, and author, Baxter of Los Angeles were close to their subject and assisted in their research and interviews by Leah Worth and Natalie Cantor
Acquired by AB Fable archive in March 2001 from a Philadelphia dealer
Likely to be the mysterious biography to which Venuti reportedly referred in conversation with disapproval Enquire for availability of unbound photocopies of this fugitive volume
Please be aware that this volume is of curiosity value only
AB’s In Time: A Not-So-Brief History of the Swing to Recorded Bebop and Progressive Violin published in four parts over four issues of Fiddler Magazine (winter 2002/2003–fall 2003)
with some corrections in winter 2003/2004 issue
is now superceded by a greatly expanded and revised 96 page booklet with numerous photos
retitled Almost Like Being in Bop included with 2005 2CD release I Like Be I Like Bop
LISTENING FOR HENRY CROWDER
Henry Crowder, consort of Nancy Cunard, was Eddie South’s pianist 1927–1928
He made roll and other disc recordings apart from those with South
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Book + CD
128 page monograph with previously undocumented materials
published December 2007 by Allardyce Book including
essay, roll/discography, some 90 photos, documents, music, CD insert AB Fable XABCD1-X017
with rolls and recordings including the Crowder–Cunard composition Memory Blues aka Bœuf sur le toit and new
recordings by New York vocalist Allan Harris of six compositions by Crowder including his collaboration with Samuel Beckett
ISBN 978-0-907954-36-1
for ordering information, corrections and supplementary materials
