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Adrian Rollini was the best bass saxophonist ever, among the initial jazz vibraphonists, along with a talented multi-instrumentalist who will make music in such novelty instruments because the “sizzling hot fountain pen” (a small clarinet using a saxophone mouthpiece) along with a “goofus.” The old sibling of tenor saxophonist Arthur …

In 1924 Ed Kirkeby, the supervisor from the California Ramblers, made a decision to form a little group extracted from the bigger orchestra to try out novelties and hotter jazz numbers. Initially known as the tiny Ramblers on its Columbia recordings, the quintet (made up of trumpeter Expenses Moore, Adrian …