[78-L] Same or similar

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Jul 27 19:13:44 PDT 2009


Wild Bill Davison (cornet) & Wild Bill Davis (organ)
Tommy Dorsey & Thomas A. (Georgia Tom) Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and Fifi d'Orsay (rimshot)

dl

Julian Vein wrote:
> Here are some examples of jazz musicians with less common names who have 
> the same or similar ones, not always both in the jazz field!
> 
> James Moody – tenor sax and James Moody – pianist on Workers’ Playtime 
> (BBC 1950s).
> 
> Skeeter Best – guitar and Keter Betts – bass.
> 
> Bill Dillard – trumpet and Bill Dillard – guitar.
> 
> Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – tenor sax and Eddie Locke – drums.
> 
> Lee Morgan – trumpet and Lee Morgan – bass.
> 
> Jimmie Noone – clarinet and Big Jim De Noone – country artist.
> 
> Earl “Fatha” Hines – piano and Earl Hines - preacher.
> 
> Garnet Clark - piano and Garner Clark - trumpet.
> 
> Jimmy Woods – alto sax and Jimmy Woode – bass.
> 
> Sal Nistico and Sam Nestico – both tenor sax
> 
> Ziggy Elman – trumpet and, occasional, trombone and Ziggy Elmer – trombone.
> 
> Dick Katz – piano and Dick Katz – piano!
> 
> Johnny Dodds – clarinet and Johnny Dodds (pseudonym for Gene Autry on OK).
> 
> Emmett Berry - trumpet and Ermit Perry - trumpet
> 
> and a couple who should be doing pantomime:
> 
> Joe Cinderella - guitar and Dick Whittington - piano.
> 
>       Julian Vein
> 






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