Rudolph Pickett Blesh (January 21, 1899 – August 25, 1985) was an American jazz critic and enthusiast. Blesh studied at Dartmouth College and held jobs...

Records is a jazz record label founded in 1946 by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis. In New York, Blesh and Janis heard jazz drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds playing...

woman from Kentucky. His birth date was accepted by early biographers Rudi Blesh and James Haskins as November 24, 1868, although later biographer Edward...

in her version made no specific reference to its meaning or content. Rudi Blesh commented upon its importance as an archaic eight-bar blues which was...

Popular Music, Vol. 10, No. 1, The 1890s. (Jan., 1991), pp. 11–19. Cites Rudi Blesh. Smith, Steven G. (1992). "Blues and Our Mind-Body Problem", Popular Music...

by the rag's dedication to "James Brown and his Mandolin Club", author Rudi Blesh wrote that "some of the melodies recall the pluckings and the fast tremolos...

modification of the march style popularized by John Philip Sousa. Jazz critic Rudi Blesh thought its polyrhythm may be coming from African music, although no historian...

and His Era (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-974032-1. Blesh, Rudi (1981). "Scott Joplin: Black-American Classicist". In Brodsky Lawrence...

million copies of a piece of instrumental music. Joplin's first biographer Rudi Blesh wrote that during its first six months the piece sold 75,000 copies, and...

They All Played Ragtime is a non-fiction book by journalist Rudi Blesh and author Harriet Janis, originally published by Grove Press in 1950. It was subsequently...

rehabilitating Buster's life and career. In his authorized biography, Keaton, Rudi Blesh praised Eleanor for having buoyed her husband through career setbacks...

15th governor of New Hampshire Curtis Coe Bean (1828–1904), politician Rudi Blesh (1899–1985), jazz critic and enthusiast John C. Chase (1870–1937), shoe...

completion, Keaton—"sober, shaved, and calm" as Keaton told his biographer Rudi Blesh—pitched an idea to Irving Thalberg. He wanted to make a feature-length...

of the duet while enhancing Keaton's. According to Keaton's biographer Rudi Blesh, Chaplin eased his notoriously rigid directorial style to give Keaton...

while eating sausages at the same time." According to writer and critic Rudi Blesh, the tune is identical to the main theme of "Rags to Burn", a ragtime...

He was portrayed by Clifton Davis in the 1977 film Scott Joplin. Blesh; Janis, Rudi; Harriet (1950). They All Played Ragtime (4th ed.). New York: Oak...

actually arranged the piece, or merely transcribed it. Joplin biographer Rudi Blesh thought it more likely that the credit to Daniels was the publisher's...

February 25, 1916, in national newspapers. They All Played Ragtime, by Rudi Blesh & Harriet Janis, Alfred A. Knopf (1950); OCLC 891125 "Biography: Mike...

in business and soon the company ceased publishing. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri, in search...

early 1940s and with Kid Shots Madison. Alan Lomax brought Lewis on a Rudi Blesh radio show in 1942 in which Lewis played "Woodchopper's Ball" by Woody...

as "exciting as almost anything in the folk blues field". Music writer Rudi Blesh included a review of Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail" in his 1946 book...

example. In English the word "microtonality" is mentioned in 1946 by Rudi Blesh who related it to microtonal inflexions of the so-called "blues scales"...

American Marches  · Columbia Gunther Schuller conducting the All-Star Band Rudi Blesh – Joplin: The Complete Works (Dick Hyman) Laszlo Eosze – Kodály: Orchestral...

Dodds (left) and Rudi Blesh in July 1947...

pp. 78–80. ISBN 0-486-25922-6. Blesh, Rudi; Janis, Harriet (1950). They All Played Ragtime. Knopf. Blesh; Janis, Rudi; Harriet (1950). They All Played...

of Stuff #2 with F. Chase Taylor (1939, the final Educational comedy) Rudi Blesh, Keaton, MacMillan, 1966, p. 340. Film Daily, Sept. 27, 1945, p. 5. Florabel...

Moldy figs are purist advocates of early jazz, originally those such as Rudi Blesh, Alan Lomax, and James Jones, who argued that jazz took a wrong turn in...

Solo Art Records is an American record label and was purchased by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis from the original owner in 1946, and run alongside their...

day, and the first single to be released from that session. The critic Rudi Blesh, in his 1946 book Shining Trumpets: a History of Jazz, reviewed Johnson's...

Carver" Cast: Juano Hernandez, Canada Lee May 31, 1947 This Is Jazz Cast: Rudi Blesh (host), Wild Bill Davison, Albert Nicholas, Joe Sullivan, Pops Foster...