Joe Masek

Joe Masek is a name that could inspire jazz hornmen to munch on their fingernails as well as their reeds, desperately wondering whether they’ll ever get yourself a chance to listen to a sample from the man’s using. They’ll search in vain for Masek’s 1935 recordings with one “Charlie LaVera” as defined by John Chilton in his Encyclopedia of Golf swing, yet the job of finding these edges doesn’t obtain that easier once it really is driven that Chilton or his editors had been actually discussing the pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader Charles LaVere. Until the first ’70s, dance music group fans may have noticed Masek in the reed portion of the Hall Kartun music group, regularly keeping forth at Chicago’s Continental Plaza resort. During prior years, specifically the ’40s and ’50s, players may have had an opportunity to research with Masek in an interval when he was focusing even more on teaching than carrying out. He mostly performed on jazz bandstands through the ’30s but appears to have skipped from many possibilities to record, apart from whatever may have been completed alongside LaVere. While he worked well frequently with bandleader Henry Busse through the past due ’30s, he was both as well late to enter on sessions concerning Busse’s spinoff through the Paul Whiteman music group in the ’20s and prematurily . to participate Busse’s Decca agreement in the next 10 years. Busse’s 1939 part entitled “THAT IS RIGHT, I’m Wrong” might have been influenced by Masek’s decision to climb from the Busse music group bus to be able to sign up for Jimmy McPartland’s combo in the Offbeat Golf club. Regardless of the auspicious audio of both leader and location, that appears to have been Masek’s last main assignment for the jazz scene.