[Dixielandjazz] Pedal trombone

[Don Ingle]

I also hit the 1111 club when I was in Chicago working after college at 
Michigan State, 1953, sweating out the transfer period from Local 47 
to10-208 and gigging was slim so I did a day gig for a while.
The band had an old family friend on it - Del Lincoln -- actually 
Delbert Lincoln Aronson, who lived in  the same apartment building in 
Chicago in the 30's when dad was with Weems and headquartered there.
Del used his middle name professionally because, unfortunately, his 
surname was thought to be Jewish (in fact he was Swedish) and had a 
rough time getting work because of the ugly anti-semite attitude of some 
leaders in town. Del was a wonderful cornet player and a pleasure to hear.
The 1111 band at that time had a crazy drummer named Hey Hey Humphries 
on drums. The old 1111 had these fake columns in art deco style of vinyl 
cloth stuffed with cotton. Hey Hey has a bit where he would drum and hit 
the columns and the cotton stuffing would fly out. He later had a 
complete melt down and spent some down time in a state snake pit 
downstate. Left to work in Colorado and never heard what happened to him.
Floyd Bean was a fie palyer - worked for awhile as did Dec Cenardo at 
the old Jazz Ltd - first  lcoaton at State and grand inthe '50's. I 
later worked with Doc with Pete Bielmann's band in L.A. inthe '60's 
before going to Jazz Ltd where I put in a total of five years into stays.
It was still a time where good Chicago-style jazz was not hard to find. 
Today, most of the good players are lucky to have a oonce a week gig, 
and nt too many of them do. The times, they are a-changing -- but they 
were sure something while they lasted, weren't they?
Don Ingle


Marty Nichols wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:06:29 -0500
> From: Butch Thompson <butte1 at mac.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Pedal trombone
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>   George Brunis was a master of playing with the foot, of course.  But
>  that
> was not his main claim to fame, of course. His notoriety, as he often
> explained on mic, came from other things:
>   "If you want my records, they're down at the courthouse."
>   "You can find my picture at the post office."
>   Something like that.
>   Butch Thompson 
>    
>   Butch,
>    
>   Would you perchance be speaking of Brunis's long run
>   at the "1111 Club" on Bryn Mawr on Chicago's North Side?
>    
>   I lived in Chicago from 53-57 and often heard him there. I remember those quips along with "don't applaud, throw money!" and others. Georg also would lay flat on his back on the bandstand sometimes with the crook of his horn hanging over the side and play. The place was packed right through the week when he was in town. I subbed for a time at 1111 Club, along with Chuck Hedges-clnt. Others in the band were Nap Trottier-tpt, Doc Cenardo-dms andFloyd Bean-pno. There was no room on the stand for bass in that tiny club.
>    
>   Once while I was playing with Danny Alvin's band at the "Tom-Tom Club", Brunis was there having a birthday party.
>   He came up to the stand at one point and took my trombone and played a few numbers. Doh! The memories! I have had better days! {Places head in hands}
>    
>
>
> Gerald "Marty" Nichols
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