[Dixielandjazz] "What ya want me to do"

[Bill Haesler]

Jack Bryce asked:
> Is it possible that the "Charlie Frazier" on this recording ]King Oliver] is the same Charlie Frazier who played with the Jimmy Dorsey band from 1935 until 1943? ...lived in North Arlington, NJ and taught sax and clarinet in Newark.  He played with my father's band in the late 1940s and 1950s. He taught me. He was a great teacher, but he moved to Clearwater, Fl, in 1961 and died there in 1987. 

Dear Jack,
No.
Although discographies sometime lump the tow together.

•Charles H Frazier (tenor sax & all reeds)
Born: Radford, Virginia. 17 August, 1907
Died: September 3, 2002, said to be the last living musician who recorded with King OIiver.
Self taught. Moved to NYC in 1928 worked taxi dance halls, With Earle Howard orch (1928-29); Charlie Skeets, (1929); King Oliver (1929-30); Dave Nelson (1931) Blanche Calloway (Cab's sister. 1932-35); Willie Bryant (1936); Lew Leslie's Blackbirds (1938-39); toured with Ella in the early 40s; Cab Calloway (1945-46) then freelanced and taught. With the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band (1980).

•Your Charlie Frazier worked and recorded with Jimmy Dorsey (1937-45) then George Paxton. I have no details from then on.
Very kind regards,
Bill.