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Denny Schreffler
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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There was a player named Frank Brown I have a recording of somewhere sent to me by a guy named Ron Stokes some of you may have known. Frank was a fantastic player - he was an assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He was murdered in 1983 by some lowlifes he'd thrown out of a bar he owned. I can't find a photo of him online. I need to find that recording.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/14/Police-arrested-a-suspect-Saturday-in-the-stabbing-death/4116421732800/


I knew Frank very well.

He had been a boy-wonder cornet player. Probably studied with Frank Simon (one of Al Hirt’s teachers).

There was a story in the ITG Journal several years ago – I’ll have to try to find it on the new, complete ITG Journal disc – about one of the big ghost bands traveling thru Cincinnati and needing a last-minute, emergency sub. Frank got the call.

They put him on 4th and joked among themselves about giving some local cat a chance to blow with the big boys.

At the beginning of the second set, they had him playing lead. They must have thrown a lead part at him in the first set after hearing that he could play and then found out --- that he could play.

At the end of the gig, each trumpet player on the band was making arrangements to come back to Cincinnati to get lessons.

He played lead and jazz on trumpet and on slide trombone.

He would sub lead for Woody but their arrangement was that he would never go out for more than two weeks at a time.

I studied with him for a few months in 1970. He would tell people, at that time, that he didn’t take students but he would sometimes take one guy at a time if things clicked with the guy. Started off at once a week, then more often, then he’d call me and tell me to come over for a lesson two or three times a week – and he stopped taking money for the lessons. We lived about five minutes apart. I was working Tu – Su, 9 – 2 and he was MD (à la Doc) on a Mo – Fr live TV show that aired at 4pm. He was playing a Holton ST-200 (which had the real Brisbois set-up from the factory – Frank was also a Holton artist), and a (Ratzenberger, of course in 1970) Al Hirt JetTone with an A rim. He also had an ST-100 that he would take to sessions along with the 200. Never heard him play the 100.

I found a photo of him at C-CM on the Internet a few years ago but I can't find it. I took his publicity photo that he used with Holton and with JetTone. I used to see my photo of him in the ads in the International Musician all the time. Oh, yeah -- that's why he stopped taking money for the lessons.

At that time (late ‘60s/early ‘70s), there was no jazz in C-CM. The three jazz bands (the Concert Jazz Band directed by John DeFore was excellent) and a few combos and small bands were under the aegis of the University of Cincinnati Bands (Marching, Pep, ROTC, …). Marie Speziale, who was teaching at C-CM at the time, regarded Frank very highly and always spoke glowingly of him. The esteem with which Frank was held by the faculty is reflected in his appointment as Department Chair when Jazz became a part of C-CM in 1976.

I had been gone from Cincinnati for several years but I heard the details of his murder were somewhat different than reported in the link. I think that John was his brother-in-law, not his brother (not sure, though), and, I think that it was John who threw the guy out earlier in the day but Frank got the knife as he was closing. Pat Harbison might have better 2nd/3rd-hand details than mine.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And .... the incomparable Jim Manley ...


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I still don't know why Sergei Nakariakov isn't a household name.


Yes, I enjoy his renditions of classic cornet solos!

I put this one up with Malcolm's Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
https://youtu.be/xNT_eF9lCBY
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don Goldie was already mentioned, very good player.
And Bobby Hackett, what a great player he was! Too much seen as a dixieland player.
In the classical world easy overseen now is the greatest of them all, Timofei Dokshizer.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stéphane Gourvat, of l'Orchestra de Paris, is an outstanding player whom I rarely hear mentioned. Incredible skills, which he uses to play with great expression.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The gone-too-soon Mike Lawrence.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 8:09 pm    Post subject: Players Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:16 am    Post subject: Markus Wursch Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David Hoffman. Hell of a player, great writer, great teacher. Hardly anyone knows about him, but those who do understand.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard Alex Norris in nyc last month. Fantastic player.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking through my collection for the recording I have of Frank Brown I ran across an album of a guy named Gary Guthman. I think he's largely known as doing Vegas and cruise ship shows. He's a solid player - I hear him emulating various Doc-isms.

Christian player named Dan Oxley. I think he largely plays to tracks at churches.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tony Kadleck!
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LaTrompeta wrote:
I still don't know why Sergei Nakariakov isn't a household name.


I wonder the same thing about Nakariakov.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ruben Simeo.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

delano wrote:
And Bobby Hackett, what a great player he was! Too much seen as a dixieland player.



So true. I always loved the work he did with the Jackie Gleason Orchestra : a mellow, sometimes haunting sound. I own several Gleason LPs and when I hear Bobby I get goosebumps.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

delano wrote:
And Bobby Hackett, what a great player he was! Too much seen as a dixieland player.



So true. I always loved the work he did with the Jackie Gleason Orchestra : a mellow, sometimes haunting sound. I own several Gleason LPs and when I hear Bobby I get goosebumps.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RAY Friggin' VEGA !!!!!!

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am not sure he is meant before but I just "discovered" Jabbo Smith via a post here or on TM, I forgot. I knew his name from old Ellington records but never knew he made records under his own name. Really like his stuff, here some Ellington:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oF4P7e_ds
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