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Friday, November 8, 2013

Lookin' At The Roane Brothers


Inspired by a nice posting by Andrew Sammut on his blog, I took a look at trumpet players Kenneth and Eddie Roane on my 7-11-13 program. Check out the show for biographical info and music by these two excellent trumpet players.

Here's the program.

Fess Williams “Hot Town” (Victor 1927)
Lloyd Scott and His Orchestra “HARLEM SHUFFLE” (Victor 1927)
Lloyd Scott and His Orchestra “Happy Hour” (Victor 1927)
Lloyd Scott and His Orchestra “Symphonic Scronch” (Victor 1927)
Fess Williams “Friction” (1929)
Eddie Cole “Honey Hush” (Decca 1936)
Eddie Cole “Thunder” (Decca 1936)
Sidney Bechet “Meringue” (1939)
Sidney Bechet “Rose Rhumba” (1939)
Louis Jordan “Is You Is or Is Ain't My Baby?” SINGLE (Decca 1943)
Louis Jordan “I Like Em Fat Like That” SINGLE (Decca)
Louis Jordan “You Can't Do That No More” SINGLE (Decca 1943)
Fess Williams “Variety Stomp” SINGLE (Brunswick 1927)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

During the program, the moderator of this program asked if anyone knew Kenneth Roane's DOB. Well, I do not. But I do recall that Kenneth personally shared with the entire band that he was born in 1900, because we celebrated his 60th birthday [when I was ten years of age]. Kenneth was my B-flat Clartinet teacher, my elder brother's cornet teacher and my younger brother's percussion teacher. We were three members of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Community Center Band. Kenneth, of course led our band in the 1960s. We played concerts and marched smartly quite often in New York City's St.Patricks Day Parade. In his heydays he was also a musician's union executive. I visited him at his home on 138th Street in Harlem in the 1970s.

Anonymous said...

During the program, the moderator of this program asked if anyone knew Kenneth Roane's DOB. Well, I do not. But I do recall that Kenneth personally shared with our entire juvenile band of students that he was born in 1900, because we celebrated his 60th birthday [when I was ten years of age]. Kenneth was my B-flat Clartinet teacher, my elder brother's cornet teacher and my younger brother's percussion teacher. We were three members of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Community Center Band. Kenneth, of course led our band in the 1960s. We played concerts and marched smartly quite often in New York City's St.Patricks Day Parade. In his heydays he was also a musician's union executive. I visited him at his home on 138th Street in Harlem in the 1970s.