Oliver Naylor's Orchestra

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Oliver Naylor's Orchestra was a jazz and dance orchestra of the 1920s .

Band history

The pianist Oliver Naylor founded his first hot band in 1923; In 1924 she got an engagement in the New York Roseland Ballroom. The first recordings were made in January 1924 for Gennett Records as Oliver Naylor's Seven Aces , stylistically based on the New Orleans Rhythm Kings a . a. "Slowin 'Down Blues" and "You". Among the most interesting soloists in the band, Scott Yanow counts trombonist Charles Hartman (who named Miff Mole as a main influence, but sometimes more after Kid Orysound); other musicians were Jules Baudac (banjo), Pete Beilman (trombone), Lester "Gilly" Bouchon (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Louis Darrough (drums), Edward "Pinky" Gerbrecht (cornet), Carl Hansen (bass), Jack Howard ( Alto saxophone), Jerry Rachel (clarinet, alto saxophone) and Don Perry (arrangement). Bob Zurke (piano), who played for Naylor at the age of 13, is one of the band's later best-known musicians .

After the Roseland engagement, the orchestra played in the Knickerbocker Grill in New York, in 1925 again in the Roseland and on tours as Oliver Naylor's Orchestra . After 19 tracks, which the orchestra recorded as Naylor's Seven Aces for Gennett in 1924-25 , the orchestra entered the studio for Victor Records in early May 1925 (as Oliver Naylor's Orchestra ); on May 14, 1925, the Sweet Georgia Brown jazz standard was also recorded ( His Master's Voice , B-2079). In 1929 two more titles were created for Okeh Records . Naylor, who made no more recordings in the 1930s, kept the orchestra together until 1939 and then worked as theater director and from 1948-60 as deputy manager of the TV station WBRC-TV.

Discographic notes

  • Oliver Naylor 1924-1925 (Challenge)
  • Oliver Naylor's Seven Aces (Fountain)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With Edward "Pinky" Gerbrecht (cnt), Charles Hartman (tb), Bill Creger (cl, as), Newton Richards (ts). Oliver Naylor (p, dir), Jules Bauduc (bj), Louis Darrough (dr).
  2. ^ Scott Yanow: Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years . 2003, p. 211
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 21, 2014)