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This version from the Charleston Chasers does not have any relation to the initial group through the 1920’s apart from the fact it too plays classic jazz originating throughout that era. The music group was shaped in Britain when cornetist Sean Bolan and guitarist Philip Smith talked about the thought …

An associate of Baltimore’s notorious community of historic jazz music artists of Irish descent, trumpeter Leo McConville was sighted on bandstands as soon as 1914. “Big name” position came his method some five years later on when he started using the Louisiana Five. In the next 10 years the trumpeter …

For an interval in the 1920s, Miff Mole was (before the introduction of Jack Teagarden) the innovative trombonist in jazz. He previously gained a solid reputation using the initial Memphis Five (beginning in 1922) and his many recordings with Crimson Nichols during 1926-1927 discovered him taking uncommon period jumps with …

The Charleston Chasers was a name utilized between 1925 and 1931 for some documenting groups that didn’t exist beyond the studios. The 1925 release (which documented two figures) matched up cornetist Leo McConville with trombonist Miff Mole and pianist Arthur Schutt. By their second program two years later on, the …

Jimmy Dorsey was both an accomplished reed participant, focusing on alto saxophone and clarinet, and something of the very best bandleaders from the golf swing era. In the first and late intervals of his profession, he co-led rings with his young brother Tommy; among, he obtained some Latin-tinged strikes that …

Using the premature death of Eddie Lang in 1933, Dick McDonough and Carl Kress were considered his likely successors both on jazz dates and in the studios. McDonough had been a very active player. He previously began in 1927 like a banjoist with Crimson Nichols, had turned over to acoustic …

Vic Berton, a forward thinking percussionist from the first times of jazz, originated from a musically talented family and is normally thought to have played within a pit orchestra when he was just seven. His dad was a specialist violinist, as well as the bowed device was one of the …