Original Indiana Five

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Original Indiana Five
General information
Genre (s) jazz
founding 1912/23
resolution 1929
Founding members
Johnny Sylvester
Nick Vitalo
Vincent Grande
Newman Fier
Tom Morton
Last occupation
Trumpet
 Tony Tortomas
clarinet
 Nick Vitalo
trombone
 Pete Pellizzi
piano
 Harry Ford
Drums
 Tom Morton
former members
banjo
 Tony Colucci (1923)
Trumpet
 James Christie (1925)
singing
 Tony Pace (1927)
tuba
 Joe Tarto (1927)

The Original Indiana Five were an American jazz band from the 1920s.

The original Indiana Five , which existed between 1923 and 1929 and initially operated from Pennsylvania , was a hot jazz band. It was stylistically based on the original Memphis Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings . As with the Memphis Five and the California Ramblers , the Indiana Five had no reference to the state of the same name . Its members included drummer Tom Morton (who also acted as band leader and band vocalist), trumpeter Johnny Sylvester, trombonist Pete Pellezzi, woodwind player Nick Vitalo, banjo player Tony Colucci and pianist Harry Ford. a. in the Rosemont in Brooklyn and in the New York dance halls Blue Bird and Cinderella , but is best known as a studio band.

The first recording session was in Long Island for Olympic as the Original Indiana Syncopators ; the band recorded in the following years for the labels Olympic, Perfect, Banner , Pathé , Gennett , Cameo , Emerson and Harmony (as well as for the Columbia budget label Diva and Velvet-Tone ) in New York City a total of 26 tracks, including Numbers like "Everybody's Doin 'the Charleston Now", "So Is Your Old Lady", "I'd Leave Ten Men Like Yours to Love One Man Like Mine" and "Stockholm Stomp". Sometimes the labels used alternative band names such as Black Diamonds Serenaders (“Sally's Not the Same Old Sally”, Perfect 4684), Majestic Dance Orchestra (“Two-Time Dan”, Puretone / Triangle 11284) or there was secondary use of songs on various labels like " King Porter Stomp " (Perfect 14392 as Hollywood Dance Orchestra ), "So Is Your Old Lady" (Regal G8714 as Corona Dance Orchestra ), "Heebie Jeebies" (Dandy 5248 as Original Tampa Five ), or " Sweet Georgia Brown ”(Champion 15015 as The Birmingham Five ). In 1928 the music industry brought the song “Where Will I Be” onto the market in three identical versions, as Dixie Jazz Band (Challenge 591), as Lou Connor and his Collegians (Orioles 1171, coupled with “Moten Stomp”) and as Five Original Syncopators (Domino 21462). On three tracks from 1929 (which were published as Tom Morton's Orchestra ), "Birmingham Bertha", "Broadway Baby Dolls" and "Anything to Hold My Baby" performed the singer Irving Kaufman under the pseudonym George Kay . In the same year, the Original India Five accompanied singer Grace Johnston in the Milton Ager composition "Glad Rag Doll", the title track of the music film of the same name by Michael Curtiz . In 1929 they also appeared in the Vitaphone short film Clarinet Marmalade .

The focus of the Indiana Five's music was less on solo performance than on ensemble play. According to Scott Yanow , the band's music was "not innovative, but well played and fit into the mainstream jazz and dance music of the time." After 1949 it came in the wake of Dixieland - revivals to brief reunions with former members of the band.

Discographic notes

  • The Original Indiana Five, Vol. 1 (Jazz Oracle)
  • Everybody Stomp: The Harmony Recordings 1925-1929

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 21, 2014)
  2. ^ Scott Yanow: Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years . Backbeat Books 2003, ISBN 0-87930-755-2
  3. ^ Brian Morton , Richard Cook : The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums . 2010
  4. ↑ Everybody Stomp: The Harmony Recordings 1925-1929 at Allmusic (English)