[Dixielandjazz] Pancho Villa

[Marek Boym]

Hello Chris,
Difficult to believe!  To me, he'll always be the famous Mexican
revolutionary.  I know Danny Alguire, and Strickler is indeed one of
the trumpeters on that LP.  And I thought he was only active in the
West Coast Revival!
Cheers

On 25/10/2007, jazzchops at isp.com <jazzchops at isp.com> wrote:
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>
> >Hello folks,
> >If the subject hase caused you to think of people wearing sombreros
> >and shooting big guns - forget it!
> >In a dixcography I have, as well as in the liner to my recently
> >acquired LP by Seeger Ellis and His Choir of Brass, the clarinet
> >player is identified as "Pancho Villa" (in the liner - Irving Fazola
> >or Pancho Villa).  This seems too much!  Have you got any idea who was
> >hiding under taht pseudonym?  I can't hear much difference between the
> >two clarinet players, but, as my acquaintance with Fazola is mainly
> >through Bob Crosby's old recording, I cannot identify him as such.
>
> I was told by cornetist Danny Alguire that clarinetist Pancho Villa was a
> real person who played in the LA area in the 1930s and 40s. Alguire played
> with Benny Strickler (who played with the Segar Ellis band) in Bob Wills'
> band.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Tyle
>
>
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