Albert Brunies

The extensive Brunies category of New Orleans could have alone populated the “Irish Route” neighborhood of New Orleans with jazz musicians — there have been some six siblings who performed on various instruments, not forgetting a musical mom, father, and cousin. This community also was the house of many additional players of German, French, Irish, and Italian descent, like the whole membership of the initial Dixieland Jazz Music group. So nobody appeared to brain much when the entire Brunies family music group would create their equipment on leading porch and skyrocket. Albert Brunies, better referred to as Abbie Brunies, was an important cornet player and in addition led Abbie Brunies’ Halfway Home Orchestra, which regardless of the name didn’t contain recovering alcoholics or felons on parole. The Halfway Home was a membership, so named since it been located about 50 % of the length between New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. Players within this group included Charlie Cordella, Mickey Marcour, Leon Rappolo, Costs Eastwood, Joe Loyacano, and Leo Adde. The initial version of the group functioned for about eight years from 1919. Abbie Brunies positively gigged in the brand new Orleans area before middle-’40s, when he relocated throughout the flex in Biloxi, MS. He led an organization there known as the Brunies Brothers Dixieland Jazz Music group. The great cornetist “Papa Ray” Ronnei was thought to have been inspired significantly by Brunies’ playing design. Brunies himself appears to have undergone a stylistic changeover in the past due ’20s, showing a knowledge from the Paul Whiteman principles of orchestrating jazz, also going so far as to toss in a few Bix Beiderbecke licks. Significantly less is well known about his playing design with the ’50s, as the Biloxi group do very little documenting. The most well-known members from the Brunies clan had been trombonist and bandleader George Brunies, who afterwards shaved his name right down to Georg Brunis, and Merritt Brunies, efficient on both cornet and trombone in addition to a effective bandleader. There is also another trombonist, Henry “Henny” Brunies; guitarist Ada Brunies; Richard Brunies on cornet; and Rudy Brunies, who performed the “slap” bass design and made beverage for a full time income.