The Little Ramblers
| The Little Ramblers | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Chicago jazz |
| founding | 1924 |
| resolution | 1927 |
| Founding members | |
Trumpet |
Bill Moore |
Trumpet |
Red Nichols |
Trumpet |
Roy Johnston |
Trumpet |
Chelsea Quealey |
trombone |
Tommy Dorsey |
trombone |
Herb Winfield |
trombone |
Abe Kincoln |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Jimmy Dorsey |
Saxophone, clarinet |
Bobby Davis |
Bass saxophone |
Adrian Rollini |
piano |
Irving Brodsky |
banjo |
Tommy Felline |
Drums, vocals |
Stan King |
singing |
Billy Jones |
singing |
Ed Kirkeby |
The Little Ramblers were a jazz band from the 1920s.
Band history
The Little Ramblers were a studio band that recorded in quintets to octets. It was formed from members of the related and larger formation The California Ramblers and occasionally performed live. In the mid-1920s, famous musicians such as Red Nichols and the brothers Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey played in it . The core of the Little Rambers group was formed by the rhythm section with drummer Stan King , pianist Irving Brodsky , banjo player Tommy Felline and the pioneer of the bass saxophone , Adrian Rollini ; the major soloists were trumpeter Chelsea Quealey, clarinet / saxophonist Bobby Davis and Rollini. During the first session the tracks “On Deep Blue Sea”, composed by the blues singer Clara Smith , “I'm Satisfied Beside That Sweetie Of Mine” and, with scat vocals by Stan King, “Those Panama Mamas” were created; Another popular title by the Little Ramblers was "In Your Green Hat".
Like the California Ramblers , Kirkeby had the Little Ramblers recorded under pseudonyms for other labels; with the band names The Goofus Five , The Five Birmingham Babies , The University Six and Varsity Eight , the Little Ramblers took on more records with occasional staff changes.
In 1926, the Little Ramblers played as a live band at the Ramblers Inn under the direction of Rollini's successor Spencer W. Clark (1908-1998) with Carl Kress and Lennie Hayton . The band, in which African American musicians such as Red Nichols, Ward Pinkett and Danny Barker also worked, was reactivated by Adrian Rollini in 1935 and recorded a total of twenty more tracks for Victor's Bluebird label in this and the following year .
Discographic notes
- The Little Ramblers 1924-1927 ( Timeless Records )
literature
- Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac . Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena, 1978,
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .