The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Closing out the final week of the month is The Swing Machine. It’s another offering from the continent that this Jazz Voyager has discovered not in his collection but one that requires sharing.The title really says it all so aptly named by tenor saxophonist Gérard Badini in preparation for a good time!
The album was recorded May 30, 1975 at the Hoche Studio in Paris, France and was produced by Jacques Lubin. The recording engineer was Gerhard Lehner, the liner notes were written by Alexandre Rado, and the photography by Christian Rose.
Tracks | 44:48- It Don’t Mean A Thing (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) ~
- Let’s Do It (Cole Porter) ~
- Sam Woodyard Is Back In Town (Gérard Badini) ~
- Cute (Neal Hefti)
- Asphodèle (Raymon Fol) ~
- Stomp, Lok And Listen ( Duke Ellington) ~
- Michel Gaudry ~ Double Bass
- Drums – Sam Woodyard ~ Drums
- Raymond Fol ~ Piano, Celesta
- Gérard Badini ~ Tenor Saxophone
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James Archibald McLin was born in Brooksville, Florida on June 26, 1908. He started on piano before picking up the banjo, then later the guitar. He played locally in Florida before relocating to New York City in 1928. He played both guitar and banjo in the early 1930s for James P. Johnson, Ward Pinkett, and Roy Eldridge.
Later in the decade he recorded with Willie “The Lion” Smith, Buster Bailey, Midge Williams, and Billie Holiday. In the early 1940s he worked with Sidney Bechet, Dave Nelson, and Claude Hopkins, then played trombone and mellophone in a military band while serving in the United States Navy during World War II. After his discharge he worked again with Hopkins and played guitar for The Ink Spots.
Banjoist and guitarist Jimmy McLin transitioned on December 15, 1983 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Rubin “Zeke” Zarchy was born on June 12, 1915 in New York City on June 12, 1915. He first learned the violin, but after a stint as bugler with his Boy Scout troop he switched permanently to trumpet while in his early teens.
Zarchy joined the Joe Haymes Orchestra in 1935, and the following year played with Benny Goodman, and then Artie Shaw. He was there through the end of the decade with Bob Crosby and Red Norvo, Tommy Dorsey, and then with Glenn Miller in 1940.
Between 1942 and 1945 he played in US Army bands of what became Miller’s Army Air Force Band, officially the 418th Army Band, playing lead trumpet as Master First Sergeant. Zeke’s trumpet can be heard on recordings as Benny Goodman’s Bugle Call Rag, Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Cocktail, and Bob Crosby’s South Rampart Street Parade.
After the war Frank Sinatra invited Zarchy to move to Los Angeles, California where he became a first-call studio musician. He played on numerous recordings, including those led by Boyd Raeburn, Jerry Gray, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Capp. He appeared on film in The Glenn Miller Story and through both the 1940s and 1950s swing era, he included occasional doubling on instruments to some degree, the saxophone and trombone.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he played in the house bands of several CBS TV variety shows, including The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Danny Kaye Show and The Jonathan Winters Show, and was a member of the NBC Staff Orchestras in New York and Los Angeles.
In his later years, Zarchy toured several times in Europe, South America, and Australia, as well as thirty-two concert trips to Japan. He tutored several young trumpet players who became successful performers and studio musicians.
Trumpeter Zeke Zarchy, who was a lead player of the big band and swing eras, transitioned in Irvine, California, on April 11, 2009.
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Don Murray was born on June 7, 1904 in Joliet, Illinois and attended high school in Chicago, Illinois. In his teens he made a name for himself as one of the best young jazz clarinetists and saxophonists in the city. In 1923 he recorded with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and though he was not a regular member of the band, he was a friend who sometimes sat in with them.
Murray made early recordings with Muggsy Spanier before joining the Detroit, Michigan based band of Jean Goldkette, with whom he remained until 1927. It was here that he mentored the young Jimmy Dorsey.
After a brief stint with Adrian Rollini’s band, during which he contributed to several highly regarded recordings by Bix Beiderbecke, he was hired by Ted Lewis. He can be heard in the 1929 Ted Lewis film Is Everybody Happy?
>Suffering injuries sustained in a freak automobile accident where Don was standing on the running board of a moving roadster and fell, striking the back of his head on the pavement. Immediately hospitalized with serious head injury, clarinetist and saxophonist Don Murray transitioned at the age of 24 on June 2, 1929 in Los Angeles, California.
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David Matthews was born on June 6, 1911 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio but was raised in McAlester, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Chicago College of Music.
He started out as an alto saxophonist with Ben Pollack in 1935, moved to Jimmy Dorsey then Benny Goodman through the rest of the decade. In the Forties Dave went on to play with Harry James, Hal McIntyre, then switched to tenor saxophone with Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Charlie Barnet.
Matthews arranged for many of these groups, and continued working as an arranger in New York City and California well into the 1960s, with Duke Ellington among others. Occasionally he played with his own bands, including at Lake Tahoe in the 1970s.
He made recordings with the big bands of Bud Freeman, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Noone, Jack Teagarden, and Hot Lips Page. Saxophonist Dave Matthews, who was principally playing in the swing era, transitioned in 1997.
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