[Dixielandjazz] More on Eph Resnick and other lesser known musicians

[Stephen G Barbone]

Bill Haesler posted about how little is known about trombonist Eph  
Resnick. Here's an interesting article from the NY Times, June, 1984  
that mentions him and some other lesser knowns. See the last paragraph.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband


JAZZ: 'VINTAGE' SOUNDS
By JOHN S. WILSON
Published: June 7, 1984
MORE than 75 jazz musicians, organized in eight bands, played a four-  
hour marathon billed as ''New York's First Vintage Jazz Band Bash'' at  
St. Peter's Church on Monday evening. It was a benefit to support a  
series of concerts of classic jazz, ''Vintage Jazz at the Vineyard,''  
that began at the Vineyard Theater earlier this year.

The program, organized by the trumpeter Dick Sudhalter, was a series  
of jam sessions by groups of 8 to 10 musicians, almost all of whom  
were in the swing tradition that one usually finds at Eddie Condon's.  
In this sense, the evening was a very limited view of ''vintage jazz.''

The only variations from this formula were a pair of guitar duets by  
Bucky Pizzarelli and his son, John Pizzarelli Jr. - a charming and  
delicate treatment of Bix Beiderbecke's ''In the Dark'' and a  
steaming, forthright gallop through ''Three Little Words''; an  
evocation of the distinctive conjunction of violin, guitar and bass  
saxaphone, created in the 1920's by Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and Adrian  
Rollini, freshly explored on this occasion by Andy Stein, Marty Grosz  
and Vince Giordano; and a Fats Waller piano solo played with great  
drive and spirit by Brooks Kerr.

The nonstop parade of impromptu swing bands provided an impressive  
display of the sheer number of able musicians working in this jamming  
tradition. Each of the eight groups had its provocative soloists. Some  
were such familiar names in the traditional jazz field as Warren  
Vache, George Masso, Dick Vance, Red Richards, Mike Abene, Marty  
Napoleon, Howard Alden, Glenn Zottola and the singer Peter Dean.

But the evening also called attention to interesting but less  
frequently heard musicians, including the guitarist Ron Bill, the  
saxophonist Dick Meldonian, the trombonist Matt Finders and a trio of  
performers - the distinctively individualistic trombonist Eph Resnick,  
the clarinetist Ernie Lumer and the trumpeter Irvin Stokes - all of  
whom were important contributors to the best band of the bash, a 10- 
piece group with great fire and flare led by the trumpeter Spanky Davis.