[78-L] Harry Reser discogr.

Malcolm Rockwell malcolm at 78data.com
Tue Mar 12 09:52:11 PDT 2013


Oops, I take that back, the missing player is on clarinet & tenor sax, 
not as I indicated in my post.
Doesn't matter, Sannella played tenor sax, too, as well as piano and 
other instruments.
Malcolm

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On 3/12/2013 6:43 AM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Ah-HAH! Thank you, Luis. This is one of the discographies I do not have
> and didn't think of.
> Notice, no steel guitar player mentioned!
> The unknown cl/as player would most probably be Sannella, of course.
> He doubled (tripled?) on steel guitar.
> Thanks again,
> Malcolm
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> On 3/12/2013 12:21 AM, Luis wrote:
>> According to the Uli Heier and Rainer Lotz book "The Banjo on Record", the
>> personnel for this session is:
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>> Harry Reser (tenor banjo), Tommy Gott (trumpet), Sammy Lewis (trombone),
>> Larry Abbott (clarinet, alto saxophone), unknown (clarinet, tenor
>> saxophone), Bill Wirges (piano), Joe Tarto (brass-bass), Tom Stacks (drums)
>>
>> Franklyn Baur, voc.
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>> Luis
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>> < I just found a Harry Reser side ("Ooh! Maybe It's You" by Irving Berlin
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>> <on Co 1109-D) with a nice chorus of steel guitar work. Judging by the
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>> <sound, issue date and location my best guess would be the sg player is
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>> <Andy Sannella. As is common for Sannella, he is not credited.
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>> <In fact most discographies, including both Rust's Jazz Records and ADB,
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>> <don't list Reser's massive output or only give him a passing mention.
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>> <There are virtually no personnel lists, either.
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>> <Jazz and Ragtime Records gives a blanket personnel (but no mention of
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>> <Sannella) and mentions that one William W. Triggs has tackled a full-on
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>> <Reser discography. I found a site on Google with Reser banjo
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>> <transcriptions by Bill Triggs, but that's about it and no mention of a
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>> <discography.
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>> <How might I access his work?
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>> <Malcolm
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