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

[Julian Vein]

simmonssomer wrote:
> 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
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For Rust, not so strange. No-one would have expected him to have 
included their full output, but by omitting the Ramblers we were 
deprived of the knowledge of "Dancing Dogs" and "Zuiderzee Blues" (with 
Freddy Johnson), both originally reissued on the Swingfan label. If Rust 
had his way he wouldn't have included Coleman Hawkins's "Body & Soul", 
which he didn't consider music.

      Julian Vein


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