Pee Wee Hunt

In 1948, trombonist Pee Wee Hunt and his band were fooling around in a Capitol recording session. They performed a satirical edition of “Twelfth Road Rag” that discovered them playing like beginner Dixielanders and renegades of 1921-design jazz. The Capitol professionals were happy, the performance premiered, also to everyone’s shock, it became a significant hit! Ahead of that spontaneous functionality, Hunt have been best-known for his lengthy period using the Casa Loma Orchestra. His dad have been a violinist and his mom a guitarist, therefore music was an all natural section of his existence. Hunt was in fact a banjoist originally; he began playing when he was 17. Quickly he was doubling on trombone and playing in regional rings on both tools before ultimately shedding the banjo. He was with Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra for an interval in Kansas Town (1927-1928 following the Bix Beiderbecke period), caused the Hollywood Theater Orchestra in Detroit, and in 1929 became among the founders from the Casa Loma Orchestra, which would ultimately be studied over by Glen Grey. Hunt had periodic trombone solos and was most likely perhaps most obviously for his good-humored (and occasionally comedic) vocals. He continued to be using the Casa Loma Orchestra for 14 years until departing in-may 1943 to stay in LA. Hunt was a disc jockey for a while in Hollywood, offered using the U.S. Vendor Sea, and in 1946, shaped his personal Dixieland group. The achievement of “Twelfth Road Rag” led to the trombonist documenting many more times for Capitol (until 1962) although no more strikes resulted. Pee Wee Hunt continued to be active in to the ’70s.