[Dixielandjazz] Doubling bass

[Bob Romans]

Hi All!!
Speaking of bass/tuba players, we can't forget Buddy Apfel, now living in
the Sparks, Nevada area. Plays both, and when he trades fours with
himself...great! He should be playing full time with a great band, but, I
think right now, he's working in a convalescent hospital as a Physical
Therapist...anyone need a wonderful full time bass/tuba player, who is being
wasted, more or less in Nevada?? OH yes!!! Also plays a double bell
euphonium, so you KNOW he's loaded with talent!!! :~) :~) :~) (G) (G) (G)
Bob Romans
Cell Block 7
Jazz Band
1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
Lodi, California, 95242
Phone.....209-368-3255
Cell...209-747-1148
Fax...209-368-3255
WebPages..click below
www.cellblockseven2002.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ingle <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
To: dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Doubling bass


>In my five year at Jazz Ltd in chi, I was able to work with a legend, Quinn
>Wilson. Quinn played string bass and a Sousaphone blow bass. He recorded,
at
>age 16, onthe blow bass with Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers in Chicago
>(Chimes Blues, etc.). Then worked for years with the Earl Hines band at
>Chicago's famed Club Delise and Grand Terrace. He recorded with Hines that
>period, a band that included Darnell Howard,Omar Simeon and other players
of
>note.
>Quinn played both instruments equally well.  It was my good luck and great
>pleasure to have known and worked with this fine musician, and good friend.
>In act, that friendship wasso strong that when he andhis wife Olive has a
>late-in-life son, Ronald, Quinn asked Jean and I to be Godparents, which we
>proudly agreed to be.
>It was common practice in the early days for bass players to play both
>insturments. I have a 1934 picture of the Ted Weems Band in which my father
>was a member (the shot shows dad and Rosie McHarge in the Sax Section) and
>in the back row you can see Joe Washburne's string bass and frontward bell

>tuba.
>Bassist Phil Stephens played both on the Matty Matlock
>albums, and, if I recall, on Coast Concert with Hackett.
>Most of the top bassists of that period were at home of both.
>At Jazz Ltd.with a doubling bassist and a doubling guitar/banjoist, and we
>would switch from a New Orleans sound on one number and to a four beat
>swinging Chicago style band on the next with guitar and string bass.
>It was a lot of fun and opened up a wider set of choices for the music we
>would play.
>Find a bassist who plays both instruments today, and keep him. They may be
a
>dying breed.
>Don
>Ingle
>
>
>
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