Sumner Leslie Edwards

Sumner Leslie “Ruler” Edwards, who also appear to have used this full-length name on most of his half-dozen saving credits, is often confused with another musician from your same period, Henry “Bass” Edwards. The commonalities perform abound: they talk about a surname, a documenting era, and the capability to dual on both plucked string bass and blown bass devices such as for example tuba. Furthermore, both males experimented with an old-fashioned device that combined areas of both these device households, the brass bass. Still furthermore, both players caused the same head, the esteemed Sam Wooding. “Bass” Edwards was with Wooding for a short while in 1923, nevertheless, as the bassist using the extended name stayed much longer, strolling for the Wooding clothing from 1926 and 1929. This symbolized the era from the Chocolate Kiddies for Wooding, an ambitious period where the bandleader come up with an organization for the musical revue of the name that was initially constructed in 1925 to get a Western european tour. The display headlined the vaudeville group of Rufus and Drayton and besides offering Edwards within an 11-piece orchestra, also included some 30 chorus women, several dancers, many comedians, and a set of stand-up performers. Edwards also gigged with Louis Mitchell through the Western european sojourn. The bassist’s sibling is certainly Maceo Edwards, a trumpeter who also used the Wooding music group in the next half from the ’20s. Talking about trumpet, an obscure trumpeter acknowledged as just simple Sumner Edwards made an appearance on one documenting program in the middle-’80s; nothing at all else is well known about him, and there’s a opportunity he could possibly be linked to Sumner Leslie “Ruler” Edwards.