[Dixielandjazz] Where...now George Brunis

[Don Ingle]

Sorry to correct you Bill but Del Lincoln was not the brother of trombonist
Abe Lincoln. Del's full name was Delbert Lincoln Arronson. He was of
Scandinavian heritage. He used Del Lincoln because there was, sad to say,
some anti-Semitism among many band leaders in Chicago at the time (1930's)
when he changed his name professionally because his last name was being
mistaken for being Jewish.
The reason I know this information is that he and his wife Aileen were close
friends of our family, lived in the same apartment building as we did (which
also had a lot of Chicago musicians living in it at the time). His daughter
Patty was about my age and we played together as kids (1930's).
Del was a very fine cornetist. Very underrated and unsung, but had a great
sound and good ideas.
I write just to correct the record, so please don't take this as anything
but that.
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "william price" <talcp@worldnet.att.net>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Where...now George Brunis


> Hi Charlie   You probably didn't know that I played with George at the
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> Club for several months in the early 1950s, sharing the job with Del
Lincoln
> ( neither of us could work all nights due to day gigs). I learned  more
> there than any other gig about OKOM.  TinRoof usually ended each set with
> George setting the phrasing for the ending--never the same way twice! Roy
> Wasson was on piano, a fine musician no-one seems to know about:  Everyone
> who was there remembers HeyHey though..  Incidentally, Del was brother of
> thr fine trombonist,  Abe.  Gene Mayo invited me to join him and George
for
> 3 or 4 dates in the Dakotas and George stopped for couple nights with us
in
> St Paul cooking all the meals.  RB&R of course.    Bill
>
>
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