Oral History and Research Materials: Claude Abney
This is the table of contents for the interview of Claude Abney. It is part of the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive which is located in
Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
For a complete contents list of all musician interviews for the oral history project, please click on this link: Oral History and Research Materials.
If interested in reviewing these materials from the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive, please contact Therese Dickman, Fine Arts Librarian.
Tape # Side Running Time on Tape Subject
1 a 015-074 Birth, Parents, Musical influence of father
1 a 075-124 Musical Memories, liberty Burlesque House
1 a 125-196 Musical training, father as a professional musician, Banjo
teacher Lee Fowler
1 a 197-226 Bands heard on radio which may have influenced
1 a 227-261 Country-Western groups, KXOK, playing bass-1937
1 a 262-279 Begins big band music
1 a 280-323 Leaves St. Louis for Detroit, 1941, union member
1 a 324-460 Marriage, children, draft status, Ben Young's Band, Oriole
Terrace, hours, pay, band personnel
1 a 461-473 Musicians and show people who came to Detroit
1 a 474-491 Left Young's band, other clubs played
1 a 492-502 Type of music played
1 a 503-555 Casanova Club
1 a 556-587 Jam sessions, after hours clubs
1 a 588-614 Roxy Show Bar, Hank Jones
1 a 615-650 Jazz Bands visiting Detroit
1 a 651-663 Musician friends
1 a 664-678 Count Basie's Band
1 a 679-714 Michigan Theater, Detroit Ballrooms
1 a 715-740 Booking Offices
1 b 002-040 Leaving Detroit, moving back to St. Louis
1 b 041-104 Dixie Five Band, Wyoming Show Bar
1 b 105-163 Call from Pee Wee Hunt's Band
1 b 164-244 Personnel of Hunt Band, jobs in Detroit
1 b 245-307 Travel with Hunt Band, especially Puerto Rico
1 b 308-517 Same
1 b 518-552 Art Moranz
1 b 553-582 Hank Biagini Band
1 b 583-662 Bobllo Boat
1 b 663-706 Return to St. Louis
1 b 671-731 Conclusion, remarks about project etc., Not Transcribed
1 b 707-713 Musician's Unions
1 b 714-723 Lake Resorts in Michigan
2 a 009-045 Job with Maloney Electric, retirement
2 a 046-132 Current jobs, Joe Wray Trio, City Lights band
2 a 133-179 Big events in St. Louis musical life, Sal Ferrante
2 a 180-228 Russ David
2 a 229-271 Bands that came to St. Louis
2 a 272-297 Jonah Jones
2 a 298-349 Other Detroit Groups played with, Georgia Auld
2 a 350-390 Jonah Jones visit to St. Louis
2 a 391-434 Caliber of jazz musicians in St. Louis and Detroit
2 a 435-449 Hottest jazz Musicians
2 a 450-497 Meeting Walter Page-Abney's idol
2 a 498-528 Traveling with Pee Wee Hunt
2 a 529-608 Other musicians making impression on Abney, humorous
incidents
2 a 609-666 Arcadia Ballroom, Casa Lome Ballroom, touring bands
2 a 667-749 Pee Wee Hunt, traveling with, working for, leaving
2 b 002-067 Pee Wee Hunt, leaving, new material
2 b 068-105 Impact of radio and records on musicians
2 b 106-126 Future of Dixieland music
2 b 127-143 Boats of Mississippi River
2 b 144-165 First public performance
2 b 166-196 First paid job, family appearance, musical inclinations
2 b 197-347 Black musicians he and his father worked with and listened to
in St. Louis
2 b 348-364 Detroit
2 b 365-377 Claude's father
2 b 378-428 Black bands and musicians
2 b 429-455 How he would live life over
2 b 456-543 Musician friends, Sal Ferrante, Benny Weber
2 b 544-670 His father's jobs, support of Claude's music
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Updated by Kristin Walker
May 2005