[Dixielandjazz] Jack Teagarden- Lover. Part 2

[Bill Haesler]

Dear Dick,
Take the cigar!
This morning I borrowed the video you mention from my
researcher/discographer mate Mike Sutcliffe.
Not only does it confirm that the YourTube clip of "Lover" is the same, it
shows the pianist sans straw boater on the other titles from the tele
session.
I agree. It is Don Ewell. Pictorially and from listening to what is being
played. DJMLer and pianist Adrian Ford and I discussed this this afternoon
over a beer or three and he agrees.
Perhaps listmate Butch Thompson would care to comment.
[Don Ewell came to Australia while Jess and I were in Europe, so I never got
to meet him and am not confident about identifying what he looks like from a
film clip.
Mike Sutcliffe's Italian video also confirms the JT Sextet personnel posted
by Steve Barbone: Jack, brother Charlie (tpt), Don Bonnee (clt), Pud Brown
(ts), Heinie Beau (alto), Marvin Ash [Don Ewell is given on the video
insert] (pno), Ray Leatherwood (bass) and Ray Bauduc (dms).
Based on the current information my file sources suggest that this is
probably a later Snader studio telescription session (I now have a 22 Feb
1952 date) and therefore was not made during the 'Stars For Defense'
Dixieland Jubilee.
Mike' Sutcliffe's copy of the video a poor one, is in lifeless colour and
does not include "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen".
The sequence of tunes is also different from yours, but the file source does
mention that each title was made as a single reel which would be reflected
in any later compilations.
The JT Sextet was formed almost immediately after Big T left the Louis
Armstrong All Stars in August 1951 (although it seems that he honoured
several planned commitments after his resignation).
And it included pianist Marvin Ash.
Hopefully, all should be revealed when JT expert Joe Showler's definitive
Teagarden book is published.
Kind regards,
Bill.