Big Bands ??
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I liked to listen to Satchmo. (Louis Armstrong) 
I like that stuff. My Grandfather had his own orchestra and played all the dance rooms in Ontario and Western New York.
restoman
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I wonder if he ever played at the Kenwick on the Lake out on Brights Grove?
Supposedly, some of the bigger names towards the end of the big band era played there. Guy Lombardo was a regular.
I'm a rock n roller at heart, but big band is something else.
I wonder if he ever played at the Kenwick on the Lake out on Brights Grove?
Supposedly, some of the bigger names towards the end of the big band era played there. Guy Lombardo was a regular.
I'm a rock n roller at heart, but big band is something else.
Not sure if he was out there, but if it was around in the heyday, it's very likely.
He played a ton of the same places that Lombardo and the Dorsey brothers played.
He even has an album, although I can't find a reference to it anywhere. My Aunt had a copy, but it eventually deteriorated to a pile of crumbs. It was a 78. So, that should give you a time frame to work with..
We also have an 8-track recording we made with my dad's first stereo system back in the early 79's.... somewhere. Maybe I'll try and dig it up to play in the NYer's deck.
He finished up his career as a teacher. Once the kids started lining up - 5 in all, he had to stop travelling so much.
He passed when I was young. So, I never really knew him as a working musician. I just always thought he was a fiddle player - for fun. The violin was his instrument, but apparently, he could play anything, and well.
I never got that gene, I guess. My cousin did. She was "this far" from being called a virtuoso and she basically quit playing. :huh:
He played a ton of the same places that Lombardo and the Dorsey brothers played.
He even has an album, although I can't find a reference to it anywhere. My Aunt had a copy, but it eventually deteriorated to a pile of crumbs. It was a 78. So, that should give you a time frame to work with..
We also have an 8-track recording we made with my dad's first stereo system back in the early 79's.... somewhere. Maybe I'll try and dig it up to play in the NYer's deck.
He finished up his career as a teacher. Once the kids started lining up - 5 in all, he had to stop travelling so much.
He passed when I was young. So, I never really knew him as a working musician. I just always thought he was a fiddle player - for fun. The violin was his instrument, but apparently, he could play anything, and well.
I never got that gene, I guess. My cousin did. She was "this far" from being called a virtuoso and she basically quit playing. :huh: