Sharkey Bonano

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Sharkey Bonano (1950)

Joseph Gustaf "Sharkey" Bonano (* 9. April 1904 in Milneburg (Louisiana) ; † 27. March 1972 in New Orleans ) was an Italo American jazz - trumpet player and bandleader . He was born as Joseph Gustaf Bonano , but also called himself Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas .

Live and act

Bonano was a sought-after cornetist as a teenager and played in New Orleans and, with Eddie Edwards' band , in New York City . After that Sharkey played with different bands. He made his first record in 1925 with the band of Norman Brownlee in New Orleans.

He returned to New York in 1927 and played with Jimmy Durante and Jean Goldkette . Around 1928 he switched to the trumpet. In that year, under the direction of the drummer and cornetist Monk Hazel, with the highly esteemed New Orleans clarinetist Sidney Arodin and Hal Jordy, saxophone, he recorded some titles (Panama, High Society, etc.) that formally still pay homage to the New Orleans idiom conventional two-beat of the rhythm section but in Bonano's solos, melodically and rhythmically, already indicate the early swing . Bonano's improvisations, which are less reminiscent of a "lead trumpet" than a clarinet part, hardly interspersing pauses and breaking the basic rhythm, must have been a challenge for the other members of the melody group in the ensemble playing. By the 1930s he had his own group and was known as a singer and trumpeter in the style of Louis Armstrong . In 1938 he recorded with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band .

After the Second World War he toured Europe, Asia and South America. He contributed a variant of Everybody Loves My Baby from 1924 to the film Road to Perdition . In 1958 he appeared in the television "Jazz Party" in New Orleans. Although many fans remember Bonano's popular recordings à la Louis Prima or Wingy Manone , his fluid, relatively progressive playing in the late 1920s, together with that of Henry Red Allen, led to more modern trumpet styles such as those of Roy Eldridge .

Discography (selection)

  • Sharkey Bonano 1928-1937
  • Sounds of New Orleans, Vol. 4
  • Sounds of New Orleans, Vol. 8
  • 1958: Sharkey Bonano - In a New Orleans Jam Session
  • 1960: Sharkey Bonano - Dixieland at the Roundtable
  • 1989: Sharkey Bonano - Sharkey & His Kings of Dixieland
  • 1998: Sharkey Bonano and His Sharks of Rhythm

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SURNAME Bonano, Sharkey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonano, Joseph Gustaf; Banana, sharkey; Bananas, Sharkey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Milneburg (Louisiana)
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1972
Place of death New Orleans