[78-L] Six Brown Brothers as Columbia Saxophone Sextette

[Rodger Holtin]

About a year ago I read a fascinating book called "That Moaning Saxophone" by Bruce Vermazen
http://www.amazon.com/That-Moaning-Saxophone-Brothers-Dawning/dp/B000VIJ0X4
and he, if I remember correctly, affirmed that the Columbia Saxophone Sextette was in fact a Harry Yerkes group and had nothing whatsoever to do with any of the Brown Brothers.  Seems like he also said the brothers' presence on records was never so dilute as to have but one genuine brown on the wax, but I could be wrong on that one.
 
I found it an engageing book and very appropos to the discussion of race, minstrels and all that jazzbo stuff.  At times it seemed as if that was the focus of the book and nearly bogged me down, but I got through it.
 
He gave glowing praise for the help he got on the discography from folks I recognized from The List, but I guess they may have left for some reason.  I see that nobody else has mentioned his book in the whole Brown Brothers thread - unless of course, it's under some other spurious subject line that I have chosen ignore.

Rodger

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--- On Tue, 1/27/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Six Brown Brothers as Columbia Saxophone Sextette
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 2:28 PM

Way back, or at least through the mid to late 60s..Roll Back The Years. Same 
title as his book.

I checked the Saxo Sextette in the Columbia Master Books and no personnel was 
listed. The Six Brown Brothers, per Rust, changed personnel fairly rapidly to 
the point where there was only one Brother, so either of the Columbia groups 
could have been original Brown Brothers. And I believe the "Fred
Allen" disc 
(Sunshine Of Your Smile) is either Fred or Tom Brown. (It definitely isn't
Fred 
Allen, who never played sax and who wasn't using that name yet.)

dl

Stephen Davies wrote:
>         Moogk describes their discs as being by the Saxo Sextet, but
I'm 
> looking at one those discs released under the name of Columbia Saxophone 
> Sextette.  The song titles and catalogue # both match.
>         So was Moogk wrong, or is this a generic company name for any 
> saxophone band who wished to remain anonymous?
>         Also, I don't remember Ed Manning / Moogk on CBC.  Which
program 
> would that have been?
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
> 
> --------------------------------Original message---------------
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:30:27 -0500
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Six Brown Brothers as Columbia Saxophone Sextette
> 
> I thought they were the Saxo Sextette on Columbia, and that information 
> came 
> from Moogk when he was "Ed Manning" on CBC Radio.
> 
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