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CD Review Blue Book of Storyville. The Syncopated Times by Joe Bebco

Blue book of Storyville

The Blue Book of Storyville by Don Vappie Listen and buy The Blue Book of Storyville HEREe/ https://syncopatedtimes.com/the-blue-book-of-storyville-by-don-vappie-and-jazz-creole/?utm_source=The+Syncopated+Times&utm_campaign=0f29ccb585-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_01_03_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1d5b1765d2-0f29ccb585-355729890&fbclid=IwAR3nM1k1H9hAouBNLak2CMBHfVOaUXnYiubo3YSVOVoSV9YkceU3GNwW-7c Don Vappie, who is interviewed in this issue, has had a long career for a man of 64. He drifted into traditional jazz from other styles of New Orleans music and by the ’80s was recording as […]

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Dave Gelly CD Review Blue Book of Storyville. The Observer/The Guardian

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Dave Gelly Review https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/17/don-vappie-jazz-creole-the-blue-book-of-storyville-review-delicate-rhythm-and-banjo Check out the album and more HERE An easy-going singer, virtuoso of the banjo and larger-than life character, Don Vappie is as New Orleans as they come. His mixed-race Creole ancestors were living in the city before Napoleon sold it to the US in 1803. A century later, Creoles, still speaking […]

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CD Review in Gazette Bleu for Blue Book of Storyville.

Blue book of Storyville

Gazette Bleu review https://lagazettebleuedactionjazz.fr/don-vappie-jazz-creole/ Check out the album HERE N’oublie jamais ceci : jouer du jazz, c’est comme raconter une histoire » : Est-ce que que Don Vappie avait un livre de Maxence Fermine dans ses bagages pendant l’enregistrement de ce nouveau disque ? Peut-être, ce qui est sûr, c’est que le musicien originaire de […]

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CD REVIEW. The Blue Book of Storyville in Bebop spoken here

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Bebop spoken here review of The Blue Book of Storyville https://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2020/01/cd-review-don-vappie-jazz-creole-blue.html Check out the album HERE Don Vappie (banjo, vocals); David Horniblow (clarinet); Dave Kelbie (guitar); Sébastien Girardot (double bass) Don Vappie has amassed an impressive back catalogue of recordings as a bandleader and sideman. The Blue Book of Storyville on Dave Kelbie’s Lejazzetal Records […]

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