George F. Briegel

A trombonist, music publisher, arranger, and army guy, George F. Briegel probably supplied a musical reply for the inquiry voiced within a very much later spirit protest song, the main one using the chorus that will go “War! The facts best for?” Briegel could have replied “Writing music, obviously,” placing his munitions where his mouth area is with melody submitting actions during both from the globe wars. Briegel create Triangle Music in NEW YORK in 1915 with partner Joe Davis; this is among the first, & most famous, from the Tin Skillet Alley melody pluggers that dominated the intermingling jazz, blues, and ragtime picture for many years. Davis and Briegel produced a songwriting relationship as well, discovering the depressing “There’s Many a Smiling Encounter That Addresses an Aching Center” within their initial calendar year of business jointly. When the initial Globe Battle broke out in 1917, both Davis and Briegel finished up in the Navy, with evidently very little influence on their musical projects. While Davis continuing scribbling music such as for example “IF YOU CANNOT Enlist, Purchase a Victory Connection,” Briegel was leading the Pelham Navy Music group, writing agreements and organizing for his pal Davis to enter the band being a French horn participant. In 1919, Triangle acquired big hits using the longwinded “I’ve Done My Little bit for THE GOVERNMENT” and “Some Mother’s Little girl Is normally Lonesome (FOR A FEW Mother’s Kid in France),” but Davis and Briegel also transformed apart from patriotic designs to explore 100 % pure instrumental invention, another prominent theme in Briegel’s composing and organizing profession. The Columbia aspect “Slide, Kelly, Slide” was an excellent feature for Briegel’s trombone chops aswell as arranging abilities. The inexplicable Slide Kelly is normally believed by some traditional jazz detectives to be always a prodigal trombone virtuoso, however in reality is yet another pseudonym for Joe Davis, although much less great as his E.V. Body. In the ’20s, Briegel became the bandmaster for the brand new York Fire Division but nonetheless dabbled in documenting, including a program for Gennet in 1922. In the arriving years he’d downplay carrying out but would continue organizing and composing a range of materials. The ambitious “Morning in the Forest” was a pastoral structure for flute and four clarinets including alto and bass, and it is a favorite repertoire number for the second option horn. Among the early posting businesses’ gambits for enlarging pay-days was to set up, and therefore acquire posting privileges, to traditional materials. Briegel kept occupied with these endeavors, arranging “Hill Nation Melodies,” “Irish Melodies,” “Italian Melodies” as well as the Argentine tango “Un Choclo” in folios under his personal name. He was also in charge of a popular graph for “Anchors Aweigh” aswell as preparations of ratings by Schumann and Chopin. “Skiddin'” was another novelty trombone feature, maybe predicated on the audio a trombonist’s car makes when the participant realizes he offers remaining his valve grease back the rehearsal space. Through the Second Globe Battle, Briegel was in charge of publishing a complete series of tracks whose game titles speak, or rather march and open fire weapons, for themselves: “Battle to Triumph,” “Right here Come the Technical engineers,” “The Infantry,” “Battle to Triumph,” “On, On, To Success,” and “The Regimental Polka.” A few of these music were compiled by R. J. Burt.