[Dixielandjazz] Older musicians in early jazz bands

[Marek Boym]

He played with Diz in the early days, but came to prominence through his 
long stint with the Oscar Peterson Trio.
Ray Brown was a great musician and a very nice person.
Cheers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle at nomadinter.net>; "Audrey Van Dyke" 
<audrey at callitmusic.com>
Cc: "dixieland jazz mailing list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Older musicians in early jazz bands


>
> Don;
>
> I believe you're thinking of bassist Steve Brown who played with Goldkette
> and, later, with Paul Whiteman. Steve was a marvelous bassist who backed 
> and
> enhanced many of Bix Beiderbecke's solos. One doesn't hear much about 
> Steve
> Brown after his stint with Whiteman.
>
> Bassist Ray Brown, on the other hand,  came to prominence with Dizzy
> Gillespie's bands of the 40s.
>
> Stan
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Ingle" <dingle at nomadinter.net>
> To: "Audrey Van Dyke" <audrey at callitmusic.com>
> Cc: "dixieland jazz mailing list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Older musicians in early jazz bands
>
>
>> Audrey Van Dyke wrote:
>> > I got a piece of 1921 sheet music in the mail today - "The All Star 
>> > Jazz
>> > Band Blues" by Cecil C. Nixon, featured by the All Star Jazz Band,
>> > published by Nixon Music House in Whitefish, Montana.  It has a  large
>> > photo of the band on the front cover - one of those usual silly 1920's
>> > band photos with five guys in clown suits, a drum, a piano, a violin, a
>> > tenor sax and a banjo.  One of the  main  categories of sheet music I
>> > collect is the 20's sheets with band inset photos.  I've seen hundreds
>> > of them by now, and  one thing they all have in common, whether  well
>> > known  or obscure, is  the hopeful young faces staring out at you. 
>> > This
>> > one was different - it strikes you immediately that two of the
>> > clown-suited musicians are probably in their sixties.  It got me
>> > wondering what other older musicians might have played in the early
>> > 1920's jazz bands.  Not taught the kids who were in the bands, but
>> > actually were a part of a band calling itself a jazz band, to the point
>> > of being pictured with the band..  Anyone know of any other examples?
>> > Audrey Van Dyke
>> >
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>> I do know that Ray Brown, the fine bassist with Gene Goldkette, (his
>> slap bass solo on My Pretty Gam is a master's course in how to do it
>> right) was called "Pappy" and was older than the others on the band by
>> some years. (My dad was only 19 when he joined Goldkette).  Ray was the
>> brother of New Orleans trombonist Tom Brown.
>> Don Ingle
>>
>>
>>
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