[78-L] Harry RESER

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

Tenor saxophonist Jerry Jerome toured with Harry Reser in 1935 and 
speaks briefly about his experience in one of the Ken Burns jazz 
episodes. He may have said something about this, too, on his two CD set 
“Something Old, Something New” recorded for Arbors. I haven’t listened 
to it in awhile so I can’t say for certain. It includes vintage 
recordings from other labels interspersed with comment to establish 
historical contexts, plus tracks Jerome recorded for Arbors. I would 
call it a “summing up” set. While Jerome was A&R man at Apollo Records 
in the mid-1940s, he recorded four sides with Reser for the label in 
1947. Apollo 1085 “Jazz Legato/Jazz Pizzicato“ and “Banjo Boogie,” and 
Apollo 1113 “Down Home Rag/Banjo Polka” (issued again on Apollo 1199).