[Dixielandjazz] Preacher Rollo

[Don Ingle]

Preacher Rollo was a drummer,last name of French extraction I dare not try
to spell from rusty memory. I had a chance to work with him for part of a
year at Jazz Ltd. in Chicago. When Freddy Kohlman left the house band
Preacher came in for a period of time before leaving and being replaced by
Barrett Deems. I think Jim Beebe was on the band at that tie as well.. Fair
drummer,  with a badly injured hand but decetn timekeeper. Rather a bragger
about things of dubious authenticity, but still an interesting character.
Was from the West side of WI -- La Crosse or
other river town.
Think he was in Florida after that - this was about 1966- 0r '67 period.
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Preacher Rollo


> Folks--
>      OK, here's something perhaps appropriate for a quiet Sunday: a
> couple of weeks ago i drove down to San Antonio to go to a rare-LP's
> store called Alamo Records and Sheet Music, run by Will Day in the
> basement of an antiques store called Echoes from the Past (517 E.
> Houston St.).  He has thousands of old vinyl records, including jazz.
>      I came back with a number of dixieland records, including a
> ten-inch record without the cardboard jacket.  It was Dixieland
> Favorites by Preacher Rollo and the Five Saints (MGM E95). It turned
> out to be pretty interesting, but i didn't know who Preacher Rollo
> was (never heard of him before), so i went sniffing onto the web and
> found out a little about him on the American Big Bands Biographies
> (http://64.33.34.112/.WWW/l1.html).  Does anyone know who actually
> played on this particular recording, and/or anything else about this
> band?  I was especially intrigued by one song they did called
> "Tronbonium", which sounds almost exactly like the rendition that the
> Assunto Dukes of Dixieland do on one of their later albums.
>      I also picked up another ten-inch record without a jacket by
> George Girard and His New Orleans Five (side 1) paired with Jack
> Delaney and His New Orleans Jazz Babies (Southland S-LP-201), which
> is also pretty good, especially Delaney's trombone style.  I think i
> can hear Freddy Assunto echoing it later.
>      Other records i got included Santo and His New Orleans Rhythm
> Kings on Southland S-LP 213, Midnight on Bourbon Street by Sharkey
> and His Kings of Dixieland (Capitol T367) with Lizzie Miles, and an
> LP by a group (wearing red-and-white striped jackets and straw hats)
> called The Southern Comforts--don't ask; the uniform should have told
> me what they sound like.
>      Anyway, does anyone know any more about Preacher Rollo?  Thanks.
>
> Dan
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