Adrian Rollini on vibes and bass sax - Rare broadcast
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2019
- An acetate air-check from October 1936, featuring Adrian Rollini playing vibraphone on "Honeysuckle Rose", switching to bass sax for "Tap Room Swing", named in honour of the Tap Room, a New York club that Adrian Rollini ran at the time. The club consisted of a couple of rooms in the basement of the President Hotel at 234 West 48th Street.
At the very start of the broadcast, Rollini introduces himself by blowing a phrase on the bass sax that is very similar to one he plays during the opening strains of "Beatin' The Dog" by Joe Venuti's Blue Four, recorded in June 1927.
A new biography of Adrian Rollini by Ate Van Delden will be published later this year, and I can highly recommend it. It can be pre-ordered via Amazon. This book has been some 30 years in the making and provides a wealth of information on Rollini and many other jazz luminaries that he encountered during his highly successful career, such as Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and Fred Elizalde. The book also provides background information on the development of jazz during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. - เพลง
This tune was recorded less than two months after I was born; Rollini was a genius!
This tune was recorded in the month (October 1936) I was born.
All those Bix records wouldn't have been the same without Mr. Bass Sax; thanks
Wonderful stuff. Must have been great to just switch on the radio and hear people going at it so spontaneously and so brilliantly, no safety net in sight. Thanks as ever.
It was a much hipper time..
Man! So glad I finally put a name to all that funky bass sax playing on the old Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang recordings! Adrian Rollini is real mella, and a right-fine musician, by me! Thanks for posting this, Nick Della Fella!
Many thanks for your comment
Adrian Rollini was a genius.
Thank you Nick!! What a treat to hear this and gain a little insight into my favorite sax player was doing in '36.
This is a recording from CBS radio "Saturday Night Swing Club". The announcer is radio/movie star Paul Douglas.
Thanks for this information Mike
Amazing how spontaneous music was back in the day...and free.! ... Public radio
I have all the segments of one of Brian Rust's 'Mardis Gras' radio programmes from Capital radio recorded from a Broadcast of 29th October 1978. Brian was a great admirer and actually met the great man on one of his Forays to New York in the 1940s. Not only was Adrian a great musician, he was also a great fixer and got a lot of work for musicians via his contacts in the music world.
I read that the great baritone player Harry Carney was a huge fan of this amazing musician.
I have never read of any bass sax player that did not tip their hat and pay their respect to Adrian Rollini.
This man had to be in my top 10.
One of my all time favourites ..in my hay day of collecting 78s from the age of 11..I will still learning more and more of the jazz and dance bands of the 20 and 30tes. .I am now 64 years old and still saling of my 78 records now for the last 10 years or so and gramophone. I love this music and I won't to know what I get read of ends up in the hands of collectors like you nick and can keep the music going.
All the best to you in the future.
Thanks Allan, I've bought some great 78s from you and am enjoying them.
I'm in the same boat, started at 9or10 and am now 76. Never sold anything and still on the hunt. I am concerned what will happen to it all...
Adrian Rollini was uniquely talented. There has never been anyone like him, before or since.
Very true but the Keith Nichols band has a few musicians who can play different instruments and do great imitations of Armstrong; Bix and other too numerous to cite.
He gave a Chopin recital on the piano at the Waldorf Astoria at the age of four... that’s what a book told me.(James Lincoln collier) by age 14 he was leading his own band, playing both piano and xylophone. He began playing the sax around 1920, when he was working with the California Ramblers....
Fantastic!
Banjo strumming really was the origin of rock and roll. This is naturally the rock and roll style I prefer over the insanity of the mid 1950s.
alright then but there’s no banjo strumming on these recordings
This is SWEET! I LOVE this!
Thanks, great stuff.
AN EDUCATION!
Thanks for Bunny too!
Hi Rob, thanks for that. The pianist must be Teddy Wilson. He was on another section of this broadcast....and it sounds like him anyway!
Many thanks for the info you emailed Rob. So we can also add Babe Russin on tenor sax!
Bless you for this, Nick, and it surely is Teddy. Unmistakably! Wow!
@@swingyoucats Thanks for your comment. Yep, it's Teddy alright! Rob kindly emailed me the details and it names Teddy! And Babe Russin on tenor sax - he's really underrated as a player, in my opinion.
Yes, that is Bunny Berigan on trumpet.
Interesting, he switches to TENOR for a nice chorus @4:50. OOPS => That's his BROTHER ARTHUR - see Nick's comment! ....I didn’t know this: per Wiki: “ARTHUR Rollini played TENOR SAXOPHONE with Benny Goodman from 1934 to 1939 (and later with Will Bradley)”.
That's Arthur Rollini...Adrian's kid brother!
Heavens, Nick. Thanks. Now, I've got some more research to do! => ARTHUR ROLLINI"
Adrian Rollini was the fewest known people to play bass saxophone.