[78-L] Bunny Berigan or not?

[Taylor Bowie]

I think it is Berigan...although his execution is "off."  But there are familiar  little BB nuances,  and the way he ends his solo at 0:54 really gives it away.

More curious to me is the Rust notation of Walter Gross as the pianist. As far as I know,  Gross was still full-time with Rudy Vallee in early 1931,  as one of two pianists along with Cliff Burwell.  I haven't heard enough of Gross's solo playing to ID it,  but the piano solo sounds more like one of the usual Rich crew...maybe Signorelli?

Vallee did hire lots of free lance players in this era for records,  radio,  etc.  but the guys on his regular payroll didn't seem to do many outside gigs.   Somewhere I have some cancelled Vallee checks to Charlie Butterfield and some other notable studio guys of the time. 

Whatever the story...a damn good record!

Taylor








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Doesn't sound like Bunny to me, for what that's worth.

Dave Weiner

On 3/23/21, 12:32 PM, "RODMANLEWIS" <78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com on behalf of julianvein at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:


    The Mosaic box set dedicated to Bunny includes it as the first track on the
    set with the personnel given as: "poss. Bob Effros, Bunny Berigan (tp)...".

         Julian Vein

    On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:36 PM Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    >
    > The March 18 1931 recording of Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal and Pierre
    > Norman's "When I Take My Sugar To Tea" by Fred Rich & His Orchestra (on
    > some labels named Frank Auburn & His Orchestra) is listed both in Rust's
    > "Jazz Records" and in the "Dance Band Discography".
    > Rust has it under Fred Rich, and the entry in "Jazz Records" can be seen
    > on pages 1417-1418 in the online issue
    >
    > https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/rust_jazz-records_free-edition-6.pdf
    >
    > Rust has Bob Effros as one of two trumpeters, the other unknown, but
    > mentions that Bunny Berigan replaces Effros for the next recording
    > session on June 15.
    > This entry has been unchanged, at least since the fifth edition of "Jazz
    > Records" in 1983.
    >
    > But on a few compilation albums with Bunny Berigan's recordings he is
    > credited having played the trumpet on "When I Take My Sugar To Tea".
    > I've searched the net for comments about this "new discovery", but in vain.
    >
    > Does anyone know more about this? Here's the recording:
    > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwwA7PlL43E
    >
    > Kristjan
    >
    >
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