[Dixielandjazz] Bugles & Bugling Sam DeKemel
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DEKEMEL, Mathew "Buglin' Sam" (de Kemal) Bugle
1903, Jan 15: New Orleans 1967, Jan 6
Full name: Mathew Antoine Desiré Dekemel, known as "Buglin' Sam, the Waffle
Man" .He was taught to play by his grandmother, and he was the last of a long
line of family members selling waffles on the street. A painting of his four
wheeled cart showed it bore the legend, "Fleur du Cap Self-Raising Flour"
and underneath "Hot Waffles 4 for 5c". His specialty was playing jazz tunes on
a regulation army bugle and he was featured for years in Tony Almerico's band
on the Parisian Room broadcasts and was often recorded. Tom Stagg says the
name is pronounced "Decker-mell". See also Thomas Morris Nicholson.
NICHOLSON, Morris Thomas "Great Scot" Soprano, military and baritone bugles
1915, Penna, PA
Whilst sifting through the treasure trove of historical detritus at Tulane,
the indefatigable Kevin Herridge, stringer extraordinaire, came across the
following in the New Orleans 1972 AFM union roll: Morris Thomas Nicholson -
Soprano, military & baritone bugles - Professional name "Great Scot" Jazz
Bugler; b. Jun.2, 1915, Penna, PA. In 1972 he was living at 3316 Garden Oaks Dr.
#142, Algiers; approved Apr.11, 1972. And there was me thinking a bugle was a
bugle was a bugle, to echo Gertrude Stein. I think we should suggest to Bruce
Raeburn that a paper on the history of Jazz Bugling in New Orleans with
particular reference to Buglin' Sam and Great Scot is long overdue!
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