Grant Moore and his New Orleans Black Devils
Grant Moore and his New Orleans Black Devils were a territory band that played in the American Midwest in the late 1920s and 1930s .
The Original New Orleans Black Devils , as the full name of the band from Milwaukee , Wisconsin led by clarinetist and alto saxophonist Grant Moore, toured, managed by the Steckers Bros., in ballrooms of the Midwest, mostly Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. A number of later famous jazz musicians played with the Black Devils , including Jabbo Smith and Budd Johnson . In May 1931, Moore and the Black Devils recorded for Vocation in Chicago ( Original Dixieland One Step / Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Here ), with trumpeters Bob Russell and Sylvester Friel, trombonist Thomas Howard, alto saxophonist Earl Keith and tenor saxophonist Willard Brown and pianist J. Norman Ebron, banjo player Harold Robbins, tuba player Lawrence Williams and Harold Flood on drums. Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Here already contained the typical bass drum "bombs" that were to become typical for jazz of the mid 1940s.
Recordings of the Black Devils appeared in the anthology What Kind of Rhythm Is That? .
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert J. McCarthy: Big Band Jazz . Exeter, 1983
- ↑ Ira Gitler : Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s . P. 13
- ^ Frank Driggs, Harris Lewine: Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz . 1982. page 1925, and Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online September 8, 2013)
- Jump up ↑ Burt Korall: Drummin 'Men - The Swing Years: The Heartbeat of Jazz , p. 135.
- ^ Scott Yanow: Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years .