Saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer and
cornetist Bix Beiderbecke are notable musicians of this style.
Vera's neighbors are sassy Louise (Brenda Pressley), who agreed years ago to let her husband walk away alive in exchange for keeping his gun, and Hedley (Charles Weldon), a troubled old man of Caribbean origin, touched in the head and given to invoking the Bible, Marcus Garvey and jazz
cornetist Buddy Bolden.
But along the way we also catch glimpses of the greats:
cornetist Keppard, bandleader James Reese Europe, saxophonist Sidney Bechet.
Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, from Davenport, Iowa, grew up far from jazz meccas such as New Orleans or New York City; instead of watching and listening to jazz musicians live, he began his education by listening to the first commercial jazz recordings.
Cornetist Polcer and his jazz all-stars play a Jazz Club of Sarasota concert, at 7:30 p.m.
The California Ramblers is the band with which Rollini was most associated at the beginning of his career, but most of his recordings were made with various impromptu studio groups, like Red Nichols and his Five Pennies or Miff Mole and his Little Molers (effectively the same band, recording alternately under the names of
cornetist Nichols or trombonist Mole).
To readers familiar with Ondaatje's writing, Gunesena's misfortune may recall the torture of Caravaggio, whose thumbs are cut off in The English Patient; or the obsession with fingers expressed by the young gunfighter-poet in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; or the "[s]uicide of the hands" suffered by jazz
cornetist, Buddy Bolden, in Coming Through Slaughter (49).
Tomorrow's day of jazz at The Stables sees John Dankworth with
cornetist Digby Fairweather, followed by an amazing concentration of jazz guitar masters, featuring John Etheridge.
INSPIRED by the life of jazz
cornetist BB who died in 1931 from alcohol- related problems at the age of 28, Young Man With A Horn (1950) starred Kirk Douglas as trumpet-player Rick Martin.
``I was married to the lead
cornetist Jim Davies at the time the photo was taken, although Jim didn't join them until just after.
Musicians would come to hear for themselves and invariably be dumbfounded by the virtuosity of the young New Orleans
cornetist. They came to listen, to challenge; then they came to be awed; and they came finally to learn, as the young Armstrong invented a new musical vocabulary.
Some of the book's readership have complained about the epigraphs heading each chapter, yet it is precisely the latent discussion of the band vis-a-vis seminal jazz
cornetist Charles "Buddy" Bolden that rescues them from irrelevance.
In 1927 a young
cornetist led his band into a meticulously hilarious version of a classic composition Jelly Roll Morton had made famous, "Twelfth Street Rag." The recorded track sounds like the opening shot of a revolution--except that the revolution had already been in full swing in Louis Armstrong's head and hands for years.
