[78-L] Blue Beaver Orch

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Fri Sep 3 20:57:34 PDT 2010


Reser is the closest guess I've been able to make...although it's more 
"chordy" than Reser usually is.

Whoever it is...it's real good.

That Yerkes should be a good one,  too!

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Blue Beaver Orch


> Isn't it always Harry Reser? No stranger to Gennett, although I've seen 
> him
> spelled "Reiser" on 4904 (Kitten on the Keys, quite a nice record). I'm 
> just
> about to spin Yerkes' Saxophone Sextette's immortal "Squealin' Pig Blues".
>
> dl
>
> On 9/3/2010 10:07 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Just got a red Gennett of the charmingly named 'Blue Beaver Orchestra" 
>> which
>> is pretty clearly yet another pseudonym for Nathan Glantz.  The tunes are 
>> so
>> forgettable that I've forgotten them already,  but what is interesting 
>> about
>> the two mostly run-of-the-mill sides is the outstanding banjo heard on 
>> both
>> sides...one side just in the ensemble but on the other side he also has a
>> very nice break.
>>
>> He's really good,  and he doesn't sound like any of the guys of that era
>> that I've heard a lot of.
>>
>> Anyone have the record and have an idea who's on banjo?  It's in 
>> Rust...the
>> first two sides listed under Blue Beaver.
>>
>> Thanks from
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
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