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Jimmy Archey

A very important sideman for many years, Jimmy Archey was a significant if underrated trombonist for pretty much 40 years. Archey started playing when he was 12 and was getting professional jobs in just a calendar year. He examined music on the Hampton Institute (1915-19), performed in Atlantic Town for an interval, and then transferred to NY in 1923. He freelanced with minimal but musical rings for another six years, including Edgar Hayes in 1927. Archey became a member of Ruler Oliver in 1929, producing his documenting debut with Oliver in 1930. He was in Luis Russell’s several orchestras from a lot of 1931-37 like the 1935-37 period when Russell’s ensemble was essentially working as Louis Armstrong’s backup group. Archey acquired stints using the orchestras of Willie Bryant, Benny Carter (1939), Ella Fitzgerald, and Coleman Hawkins, subbed with Cab Calloway, and spent 1944-45 with Claude Hopkins. Archey spent 2 yrs (1946-48) with Noble Sissle’s industrial orchestra but do appear frequently on Rudi Blesh’s famed THAT IS Jazz radio series in 1947. After touring France with Mezz Mezzrow in 1948, Archey became a member of Bob Wilber’s music group in December of this calendar year on the Savoy Cafe in Boston. When Wilber still left in Apr 1950, Archey became the bandleader. Through the next couple of years, he going the sextet, which in 1952 acquired trumpeter Henry Goodwin, Benny Waters on clarinet and pianist Dick Wellstood; this is mostly of the situations in his profession when he led his very own group. He been to European countries with Mezzrow once again (Nov. 1954-Feb. 1955) and spent the majority of 1955-62 as an associate of Earl Hines’ San Francisco-based Dixieland music group, also playing sometimes with Muggsy Spanier. Archey freelanced for the rest of his existence with New Orleans-style pickup organizations. A Storyville Compact disc features Archey’s early-’50s music group on some Dr. Jazz broadcasts; normally his only classes as a innovator had been for Nec Plus Ultra (1952), the People from france Barclay label (1955) and 77 (1966).

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