[Dixielandjazz] Nat Gonella

[Stephen G Barbone]

Bing Crosby 1932  Some of These Days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgzR4jINXF8&feature=related


Nat Gonella 1937   Some of These Days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGfY6hEF9iY


Interesting look at Bing and then Nat 5 years later. I would say Nat  
is trying to copy Bing.

Regarding Nat's band swinging better than most US bands. . . . I'm  
with Bill Haesler. If you start listening to US Swing bands of the  
1930s you hear Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Benny Moten, Jay  
McShann, Bob Crosby,Woody Herman,  plus a whole bunch of  
internationally known US bands, as well as countless territory bands  
in the US, that swung far better than Nat Gonella ever could, even in  
his dreams.

IMO he was an OK player but not a jazz man and In agree with Brian  
Harvey 100%. Showman, copier of Louis, copier of Bing Crosby, with an  
average band that didn't come anywhere near swinging like the US Bands  
of the 1930s did.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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