Early Jazz History in the Works of Daniel Hardie

Early Jazz History in the Works of Daniel Hardie

 Daniel Hardie started playing cornet in a boy's brass band at age 8, later played flute, then drum and bugle at High School, and after graduating in History and Psychology at Sydney University, played clarinet in the Paramount Jazz Band - the house band at the Sydney Jazz Club, of which was a founder member. He has a fascination for old boats and jazz recordings. Since retiring from the Australian Civil Service he has devoted himself to historical research and painting. He is a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society and the Society of Australian Genealogists and a former member of the Australian Psychological Society. During the 1990’s he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Sydney Maritime Museum. 

Daniel Hardie is the Convenor and Historical Director of The Buddy Bolden Revival Orchestra dedicated to performance of music of the Elemental Jazz Era (1897-1907) with authentic instrumentation. 

 Recorded performances by the Buddy Bolden Orchestra may be heard at Daniel Hardie’s youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/HardieDan 

Daniel Hardie  also the founder and Moderator of the Facebook Jazz History Writing Group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/150009498503017/?pnref=lhc 

Books by Daniel Hardie

•  Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style, - 2002 iUniverse. 
•  Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing, -published 2013 iUniverse. 
•  The Ancestry of Jazz: A Musical Family History, - published in 2004 iUniverse. 
•  The Birth of Jazz: Reviving the Music of the Bolden Era, - published 2007 iUniverse.
•  The Loudest Trumpet: Buddy Bolden and the Early History of Jazz, the story of the music of Buddy Bolden the first jazz musician, - published in 2000 Writer's Club Press.
•  Jazz and the Jazz Age:Searching for Meaning  in a Word - published iUniverse 2020.

Daniel Hardie’s four books above, about the history of Elemental Jazz, portray its ancestry, beginnings, creators and development in the first twenty years of the 20th Century. 
In Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing the author tells of the efforts of historians to establish a reliable account of its origins and progress.  These publications are available a Amazon.com and Barns and Noble webpage.
Jazz and the Jazz Age: Searching for Meaning in a Word unravels the history  of jazz in the Roaring Twenties, and the strange history of the word jazz. 

 
Details of the above and other writings can be found at the following sites (best viewed with Safari): 

Authors website: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazzHistory.html 

Daniel Hardie’s Jazz Blog: http://darnhard.blogspot.com/ 

The Buddy Bolden Revival Orchestra Web Page: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/Bolden-orchestra.html