Bert Lown

Bert Lown, who occasionally played violin, led some first-class jazz-oriented dance music group edges during 1929-33, 82 selections in every. 23 of his band’s greatest performances have already been reissued around the TOM Compact disc Bert Lown & His Orchestra and they’re his main musical legacy, combined with the idea that he was among the composers of the typical “Bye Bye Blues.” Being a violinist Lown proved helpful for a while within the 1920’s being a sideman, including in 1925 with cornetist Fred Hamm’s music group. He collaborated with Hamm, Chauncy Grey and Dave Bennett on “Bye Bye Blues” that they initial recorded on, may 1, 1925. In 1929 Lown started his group of recordings and among his sidemen on the way had been (at various moments) trombonist Miff Mole, drummer Stan Ruler and (most of all) bass saxophonist Adrian Rollini (who was simply been successful by Spencer Clark in 1931). During 1930-31, Lown’s music group was employed frequently on the Biltmore Resort in NY, often broadcasting on the air. During this time period Lown also constructed “You’re THE MAIN ONE I LOOK AFTER” and “Tired.” His orchestra just recorded two periods apiece in 1932 and 1933 and by the middle-30’s Lown was no more leading a music group, instead reserving and handling orchestras before falling away from music entirely. In old age, Bert Lown kept professional positions and was involved with CBS-TV from 1951 until struggling a coronary attack in 1962.