[78-L] What Happens to Old-Timers? A 1935 article

[Harold Aherne]

It's equally possible that the Vallee-Confrey thing was an error, an unsubstantiated
rumour, or something that was planned but didn't work out. I suspect that the article 
wasn't fact-checked, since King Oliver clearly made nothing close to 1,000 recordings 
and "Clarinet Marmalade Blues" is credited to Larry Shields and Harry Ragas, never to 
Eddie Edwards. 
 
-HA

--- On Fri, 11/18/11, Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] What Happens to Old-Timers? A 1935 article
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011, 8:46 PM


Confrey may not have stayed with Vallee for very long, which is why his
occupancy of the piano chair is generally unknown to most of us. I've
explored this issue on other lists; musicians say that they played with a
particular band, and no one can verify it. One musician claiming he played
for Stan Kenton was a seventeen year old at the time; one of the trumpet
players became ill during the last set of the evening, and this guy sat in
for the last three arrangements of the set. The next day, the original
trumpet player was back in the section. There are hundreds of instances
like this.

Jeff Sultanof


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