Frank Bunch

Pianist Frank Number began his profession in Birmingham, AL, while an associate of Fred Longshaw’s Birmingham Dance Orchestra in 1922 and 1923, along with trombonist Joseph Britton, saxophonist Teddy Hill, and Frank’s sibling, banjoist Carl Number. After Longshaw going for NEW YORK, Britton as well as the brothers Number joined a music group led by Alabama-born trumpeter John “Fess” Whatley. Tale offers it they carved the Dark Birds of Heaven at a music group competition in Montgomery around 1925. Through the most popular days of the summertime of 1927, Frank Number & His Fuzzy Wuzzies produced three gritty, blues-drenched recordings for the Gennett label at a portable studio room that been around briefly above the Starr Piano Shop on Third Avenue South in Birmingham. The Fuzzy Wuzzies contains Britton, both Bunches, two unidentified reedmen, an unfamiliar percussionist, a tuba participant from the name of Ivory Johnson, and gutbucket cornetist Hunch Vines. After dealing with the Alabama Stompers as well as the Miss Broadway business, Frank Number changed his foundation of procedures to Dayton, OH, in 1929. Although he do assemble and business lead a ten-piece jazz music group, there is nothing known regarding the others of his profession as a specialist musician. Although he’s known to possess still been a resident of Ohio in 1963, the indeterminate information surrounding the finish of Frank Bunch’s existence are as fuzzy, as they say, as his roots.