[78-L] trumpeters on Gershwin/Shilkret American in Paris?

[David Lennick]

I'm pretty sure the Victor Symphony Orchestra was the Philadelphia at a much 
later date, not 1929 (the late 30s black label Victors are definitely played by 
the Philadelphians). I've forwarded the original message to Nat's grandson, 
Niel Shell.

dl

On 7/2/2011 10:49 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Maybe RCA does have personnel listed, but I can't find it on the ol' 'net.  Rust is no help on this because it's neither a jazz nor dance band record, so he doesn't list it in those tomes; the Victor Master Book Vol 2 shows instrumentation and says Gershwin plays piano and celeste, ditto his 1976 Compleat Entertainment Discography.  Wikipedia says the Victor Symphony was drawn from the Philadelphia Symphony.  That's as close as I've been able to get to finding out who played the trumpet passages.  Anybody out there got any clues, I'd love to hear 'em.
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> --- On Sat, 7/2/11, Jeff Sultanof<jeffsultanof at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> From: Jeff Sultanof<jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] two or three questions about Gershwin/Shilkret American in Paris
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 2, 2011, 7:01 PM
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> Those taxi horns were the ones that Gershwin obtained. The Shilkret
> recording was too important not to have them. Gershwin was at the recording
> session and played the celeste part.
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> No idea who the trumpet player is. Doesn't RCA have a personnel listing?
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> Jeff Sultanof
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> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rodger Holtin<rjh334578 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>>    on the Gershwin/Shilkret recording of American In Paris - Feb 4 1929
>> Victor 35964
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>> 1-Can someone identify the trumpet soloist(s) (the bluesy part beginning
>> with part three and the "hot" sequence that opens side four)
>> 2-in the taxi horn sequence, those sure sound like authentic taxi horns -
>> any documentation that these are the ones George brought home with him?
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