Phil Gomez

Bringing a Mexican component into Dixieland, this clarinetist fronted Phil Gomez’s Swinging Kings. He is commonly connected with multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Child Ory, with whom he offered being a sideman for 3 years from the middle-’50s. Following Gomez bands generally featured many players who had been also Ory alumni. Unlike the brand new Orleans jazz audience that embarked on journeys towards the Western world Coast, this musician was over the picture in California from the start of his professional profession. His firm in LA first from the ’40s included Will Bradley, Sonny Dunham, and Ben Pollack. Following usual military difference, 1943 through 1945 in cases like this, Gomez resumed jamming in a number of Dixieland outfits energetic on the Western world Coast. Before signing up for Ory, the clarinetist flanked trumpeter Muggsy Spanier. Gomez began his very own group in 1958, touring by himself aswell as using the ensemble to back again vocalist Jerry Colonna. Regarding to discographer Tom Lord, there were no more Gomez recordings third , period, his discography through 1959 consisting completely of sideman performances with either Ory or Spanier.