Merritt Brunies

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Merritt Brunies (born December 25, 1895 in New Orleans , † February 5, 1973 in Biloxi ) was an American musician (cornet, trombone) and band leader of early jazz .

Brunies was a member of a famous family of jazz musicians and played in the family band and with his other brothers with Papa Jack Laine , with whom he played cornet and who also taught him. He first worked in New Orleans with his brother Henry Brunies (Henny Brunies) in their band The New Orleans Jazzin Babies , which, however, did not record any records. Later he went with his brother Henry to Chicago and directed an ensemble that, after the breakup of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings had a three-year engagement at the Chicago Club Friar's Inn in 1923 as the Friars Inn Orchestra and recorded in Chicago for OKeh Records and Autograph Records from 1924 to 1926 . Around 1930 he returned to New Orleans and played in various clubs. In the 1930s he moved to Biloxi (Mississippi) , where he was with the police and until the end of his career played in the formation The Brunies Brothers Dixieland Jazz Band (the actual leader of the band was his younger brother Abbie Brunies , who moved to Biloxi in 1945 moved) and recorded with them in October 1957.

With Henry Brunies and Jules Cassard he wrote the jazz standard Angry , which they also recorded in 1957.

Merritt Brunies was the brother of jazz musicians George , Abbie, Henry and Richard Brunies. He worked in the field of jazz from 1924 to 1957 with eight recording sessions.

Discography

  • The Complete Recordings Of Merritt Brunies Recorded In Chicago, 1924–1926, Jazz Oracle
  • Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra: Angry, I weep over you, Chicago November 1924 (Autograph 610), Up jumped the devil, Follow the swallow, Chicago September 1924 (Autograph 614); Flag that train (to Alabam) and Clarinet Marmalade, Chicago May / June 1925 (autograph 624); with Merrit Brunies (cornet), Henny Brunies (trb), Volly de Faut , William Creager (cl, as), Sumner Logan (ts), Dudley Mecum (p), Clarence Piper (bj, as), Norman van Hook (tu ), Bill Paley (d)
  • Okeh recordings, November 1925: Sugar foot stomp, Want a little lovin (Okeh 40526), ​​February 1926: I'm as blue as the blue grass of Kentucky, When Autumn Leaves are falling (Okeh 40576), Flamin Mamie, Hangin around ( Okeh 40579), March 1926: Up jumped the devil (Okeh 40168), Masculine woman, feminine man, Someone's stolen my sweet baby (Okeh 40593) (cast as above, with the recording November 1926 also Lew King (vcl), February 1926 Maurice Friedman (P) instead of Dudley Mecum and additionally Gordon Poulot (viol))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait at Satchmo.com (February 5) ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.satchmo.com
  2. ↑ Abbie Brunies later took the name temporarily for his own band to build on the success of his brothers.
  3. ^ William Howland Kenney: Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930 , p. 110
  4. ^ Ate van Delden: Albert Brunies and the Halfway House Orchestra
  5. ↑ Brunies Brothers' Dixieland Jazz Band, American Music 19657, next to the Brunie brothers Merritt and Abbie with Jules Galle (cl), Eddie James (p), Tony Fountain (b), Joe Wentz (dr), title: Zero, Tin roof blues, Till we meet again, Let me call you sweetheart, That´sa plenty, It´sa sin to tell a lie, Over the waves, Jazz me blues, Angry
  6. ↑ Barry Kernfeld, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 1988, Article Brunies
  7. ↑ Tom Lord Discography
personal data
SURNAME Brunies, Merritt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician (cornet, trombone) and early jazz bandleader
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1973
Place of death Biloxi