[Dixielandjazz] Vale Harry Harman

[Bill Haesler]

> Joe Bebco <joe.syncopatedtimes at gmail.com> wrote (in part) in reply to Marek Boym:
> Obviously it was the UK Trad revival that brought the Sydney Jazz Club up to large attendance numbers but in 1953 I can see Australia as being slightly behind the curve, and that was before rock and other forms had taken off anywhere.

Dear Joe and Marek,
Wrong.

> There must have already been some trad scene going for him to have been recruited to form a band in
> 1948...

There was.
But, as we say here, "How long is a piece of string?"
The simple answer is Graeme Bell, his brother Roger and their friends including Ade Monsbourgh, in the mid 1930s.
And the worldwide early 1940s Jazz Revival, the Australian version of which ran parallel with the UK one.
All too complex to summarise here at the moment, as I am working on an obituary for my dear mate Harry Harman for the Sydney Jazz Club's February Newsletter.

> ...but I have no idea about discography. I would expect that he recorded but it wasn't mentioned in anything I read while getting the story together.

DJML listmate Jack Mitchell started covering that subject with booklets in 1950 culminating in 1988 with his definitive 'Australian Jazz On Record. 1925-80', a comprehensive living discography of Australian jazz from 1925 to the present day. Available from Jack on CDRom.
A listing of Harry Harman's recordings (taken from by Jack's AJOR) can be extracted from Tom Lord's current 'Jazz Discography'. 
Kind regards,
Bill.