[Dixielandjazz] Battle of Trombones

[Daniel S. Augustine]

    Thanks, Marek.  No wonder i couldn't find many listings for him in Google -- i misspelled his name.  The "Strut Miss Lizzie" webpage spelled it with an 'e', i spelled it with an 'i', but it is properly spelled with an 'a' (which i knew at one time, but forgot).
    Using the correct spelling, i got a lot more hits.  And one of them IS a video, with Gowans behind the drummer, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMzl9vg6NQ

    Dan
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On Apr 29, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

A great player, Brad Gowans.  I was hoping for a video, though, not just music.
The valve trombone was not his only horn.  In the 1920's he played both clarinet and cornet, and made some good recrdings with his Rhapsody Makers on both instruments.  In 145-46, he played clarinet in Commodore's tribute to the ODJB.
Cheers

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On 29 April 2014 20:52, Augustine Daniel <ds.augustine at utexas.edu> wrote:
Folks--
    It's funny (but not ha-ha) how one thing leads to another on the web.  Just now i saw a Facebook item from Riverwalk Jazz of a tune called "Strut Miss Lizzie" by Eddie Condon and his band, with Brad Gowins playing his valve trombone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYU441ZsRV8&feature=youtu.be).  Since i like Gowins' playing but rarely find any instances of it on the internet, i clicked on it and played it in YouTube.
    But that got me to wondering if there were any other videos or recordings of Gowins on the web, so i did a search on it and found the following recording (made in 2006), which i absolutely must have and which i just ordered from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Trombones-Kid-Ory/dp/B0008E4J96)
    It's called "Battle of Trombones" and is a 4-CD set of 79 songs by jazz trombonists, for $38.99.  You can go look at the list of tracks, but it's got Kid Ory, Miff Mole, J. C. Higginbotham, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, George Brunies, Dickie Wells, BRAD GOWINS, Tyree Glenn, Vic Dickinson, Lou McGarity, Benny Morton, Lawrence Brown, Trummy Young, Bill Harris, Kay Winding, Frank Rosolino, Bob Brookmeyer, J. J. Johnson, Curtis Fuller, and others.
    Of course i already have a lot of these tracks on separate other recordings, but i couldn't pass this up, especially since also on the recording are other great players on other instruments.

    Dan

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