[Dixielandjazz] "Dixielanders Anonymous"

Bill Haesler bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
Sat May 14 02:52:51 PDT 2011


Dear Friends,
This query is directed at our older UK and ex-Brit Canadian listmates.
(And perhaps, my friend Gerard Bielderman.)
I have had in my collection, for ages, an LP (Donegal DON 1003) by 'Dixielanders Anonymous' recorded in
London in February 1957.
"Tunes you have hummed; played in the New Orleans Manner by a group of British Jazzmen." 
No names or hints provided, but the musicians are described as "dyed-in-the-wool, full-time professional all-British jazzmen."
OK, after all this time can the secret be revealed?
Who were/are they?
I want to know.
The tune list on the LP:
    Aggravatin' Papa
    If I Had You       
    I Can't Dance       
    I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter       
    Ida       
    Avalon       
    When My Baby Smiles At Me       
    Stairway to paradise       
    Muskrat Ramble       
    I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me       
    Makin' Whoopee       
    My Bonnie  
It is musically competent, with no surprises 
And certainly not a driving hot group like the Kenny Ball band.
Trumpet, clarinet, trombone, piano, string bass and drums. 
Ersatz dixieland.
After listening to the LP just now, my guess is that the musicians are from London's 50's (anyone-can-play-dixieland) big band clique.
We had them here in Australia at that time.
Maybe, after all, I don't need to know.
*>)
Very kind regards,
Bill.    




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