Tape # Side

Time

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

Bob-Lo 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 Loma 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