[Dixielandjazz] Small Band Swing or Dixieland?

[Harry Callaghan]

Marek:

Do you happen to be familiar with Red Rodney......or Philadelpha-born Robert
Roland Chudwick (1927-1994)?

Played trumpet with several big bands during the mid 40s and then, inspired
by listening to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker decided he wanted to
become a be-bop musician.

He was even a part of Bird's quintet from 1949-1950, billed as "Albino Red"
as he was the only white musician in the group

Moved on to play with Joe Venuti and then, starting in the mid-50s,, he was
in and out of jail for a good part of the remainder of his career due to
drug addiction.

Pretty talented horn man though when he was straight.

OK, guys.........I'm done for the night

Bless y'all

HC




On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Jim, Steve,
> Colour has very little to do with it, but there were days it did.
> Darensbourg played with Charlie Creath and Buddy Petit; hence, he was
> not white - in those days no white musician would play with a black
> band (OK, I know of Sidney Arodin).
> Cheers
>  On 14 February 2011 20:38, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Steve Voce wrote:
> >>Although he played with Ory, I think Joe Darensbourg was probably white.
> He
> > would never be drawn on the subject.
> >
> > I played with him in the 50's at a Los Angeles session.  I'd say he was
> > Creole.  Had the same coloring as Kid Ory...and much the same as the reed
> > player with Teddy Buckner Caughy Roberts.  I never heard that he was
> white.
> >
> >
> > Actually, the Armenian side of my family has about the same coloring,
> also,
> > but Darensbourg doesn't sound very Armenian! Maybe it was originally
> > Darensbourgian!
> >
> > Jim Kashishian
> >
> >
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