[78-L] The Ramblers in Brussels ( 1945 - 1948)

[simmonssomer]

I heard the band every Tuesday night in 1938 on the radio program
"De Bonte Dinsdag Avond Trein"
They were very fine, even to the ears of a six year old.
I have lots of their recordings. Excellent dance music and decent jazz.
But for some crazy reason Rust chose not to include their output in his Jazz 
discography.
His reasoning?"...he wrote...."as the personnel included no internationally 
famous names ,except when Coleman Hawkins and Connie Boswell recorded with 
them both q.v., it was decided to omit them from the present volume."
Patent nonsense. Many bands that were listed in the discography included 
personnel that had no famous names. None!
A very strange inconsistency.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans en Corrie" <koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:10 AM
Subject: [78-L] The Ramblers in Brussels ( 1945 - 1948)


> In years of dance-going, I have heard and danced to the music of America's
> finest orchestras, but it is my opinion that your orchestra plays the most
> danceable musical arrangements I have ever heard. Your "presentations" are
> the equal of the superior arrangements of Fred Waring's orchestra, which
> plays fine choral arrangements but does not play dance music. ( Edward F.
> Kennedy, special advisor of the American Military Service in Bavaria
> (Germany)) in a letter to Theo Uden Masman, the leader of the band (ca.
> 1949):
> http://keepswinging.blogspot.com
>
> Hans
>
>
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