Frankie Trumbauer

Those are pretty rare, and we don't have them.

And he also made records with Frankie Trumbauer and, and Tommy Dorsey as well.

But what we do have is a record, uh, the big hit that he had with Whiteman in a reunion concert from 1956 with Jack Teagarden as well, and it's Christmas Night in Harlem.

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Thank you.

Frankie Trumbauer was an American jazz saxophonist born in Carbondale, Illinois in 1901.

According to Wikipedia, he's known for playing a C-melody saxophone, quote, a now uncommon instrument between an alto and a tenor saxophone in size and pitch, end quote.

It also says on Wikipedia, quote, he was featured in the 2001 documentary Jazz by Ken Burns on PBS on the topic of the first jazz soloist.

and as an iconic image to symbolize jazz music, end quote.

Trumbauer recruited Bix Beiderbecke for his orchestra.

Here's just a short clip of Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra and their recording of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 1946.

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[upbeat jazzy music]How's that for an end to the show? I've played Sunny Side Up numerous times by big names like Johnny Hamp, Frankie Trumbauer, and Chick Endor, but that's a first for the Gray Gull Studio Band, credited as the Carlson Dance Orchestra on Madison 78, number 50026, recorded in December of 1929.

You probably recognize the vocalist as Irving Kaufman, and probably remember that Sunny Side Up was written by DeSilva Brown and Henderson, and is heard in the screen's first original all-talking, singing, dancing musical comedy of the same name, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.

Before that, I've played it by Ray Noble and Cecil and Leslie Norman, but this is the first time Layton and Johnstone, that would be Turner Layton, piano and baritone vocals, and Clarence Johnstone, tenor, known as Tandy to his friends, with the happy, snappy melody song hit Sunny Days, written by Reginald Connolly, Val Burton, Will Jason, and Jimmy Campbell.

People like Big Spider Beck, most famously.

Frankie Trumbauer, Jack Teagarden, a whole bunch of people.

He And then he surrounded them with these incredibly expert classically trained musicians and paid top dollar to get the best arrangers.

And he just made records that sounded – if that was what you liked, they sounded incredible.