Tommy Felline

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Tommy Felline (actually Fellini , * around 1900–?) Was an American jazz musician ( banjo , guitar ).

Live and act

Tommy Felline worked from 1924 as a studio musician for the New York studio bands around Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey , Adrian Rollini and Irving Brodsky , such as the Kentucky Blowers, the California Ramblers (also called Varsity Eight), The Little Ramblers (also called The Goofus Five) and as The University Six, The Dixie Players and The Seven Hot Air-Men During this time he also worked with Sam Lanin , Fred Rich , Ted Wallace , Jay C. Flippen and accompanied vocalists such as Al Bernard , Chick Bullock , Annette Hanshaw , Irving Kaufman , Bill Murray and Viola McCoy . In the early 1930s he played with Bert Lown and His Hotel Biltmore Orchestra ("Were You Sincere?" / "I've Found What I Wanted in You", Victor 22653), Miff Mole (" Moanin 'Low "), Red Nichols and Ben Selvin ; then his track is lost. In the field of jazz he was involved in 340 recording sessions between 1924 and 1936.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Banjo on Record: A Bio-discography , ed. by Uli Heier, Rainer E. Lotz. Greenwood Press, 1993-
  2. ↑ The Little Ramblers at Red Hot Jazz
  3. ↑ The Goofus Five on Red Hot Jazz
  4. ↑ Tommy Felline at DAHR
  5. ↑ Discography Red Nichols & his Five Pennies
  6. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 2, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Felline, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellini, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
DATE OF DEATH after 1936