The Georgians
| The Georgians | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | New Orleans Jazz |
| founding | 1922 |
| Founding members | |
Trumpet |
Frank Guarente |
trombone |
Ray Stilwell |
trombone |
Russ Morgan |
trombone |
Archie Jones |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Johnny O'Donnell |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Frank Smith |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Dick Johnson |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Harold 'Red' Sailier |
piano |
Arthur Schutt |
banjo |
Russell Deppe |
tuba |
Joe Tarto |
Drums |
Chauncey Morehouse |
The Georgians were a New Orleans jazz band of the 1920s.
Band history
The Georgians were an offshoot of the Paul Specht Orchestra. Specht played mainly dance music with his band in the Hotel Alamac in New York City in 1920 . A scaled down version of the band called The Georgians then played in the Cocktail Lounge . The star soloist and leader of the band was the trumpeter Frank Guarente .
In 1922 the Georgians went on a European tour and then rejoined the Specht Orchestra. After this tour, Frank Guarente founded his own band called The New Georgians , who made recordings in Switzerland as Frank Guarente's World Known Georgians . They achieved chart success with the two songs "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" (1923, # 11) and "Horses" (1926, # 13).
For the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the Georgians are early representatives of the ensemble style between the original Memphis Five and the playing style of the early bands of Chicago jazz . The authors particularly emphasize the achievements of Frank Guarente as the main soloist of the band, as can be heard in the titles "Land of Cotton Blues", " Old Fashioned Love " and "Barney Google".
The original Georgians should not be confused with the formation of the same name by Nat Gonella of the 1930s.
Discographic notes
- The Georgians 1922–1923 (Retrieval Records)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
swell
- ↑ Guarente originally came from Italy; he lived with his family in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1910 and then moved to New Orleans in 1914 , where he became a professional musician and worked with King Oliver . He left New Orleans in 1916 and joined Paul Specht's orchestra in 1921 after serving in the First World War . He later worked on recordings of Jack Teagarden and Tommy Dorsey .
- ↑ See Gerhard Klußmeier: Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes (2/10 and 4/100) and companion book for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
- ↑ See Cook / Morton, p. 562 f.