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| | Leon Roppolo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | After this Roppolo worked with other New Orleans bands such as the Halfway House Orchestra, with which he recorded on saxophone. | | | In his teens Roppolo decided to leave home to travel with the band of Bee Palmer, which soon became the nucleus for the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. | | | Some critics have called Roppolo's work on the Rhythm Kings Gennett Records the first recorded jazz solos. |
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| | Paul Mares |
| | Paul Mares was from New Orleans and a childhood friend of Leon Roppolo and Abbie and George Brunies. | | | In 1925 Mares returned to New Orleans and re-formed the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Roppolo and recorded seven songs for Okeh and Victor records, but soon afterwards Mares quit music to join the family fur business. | | | Jelly Roll Morton recorded five songs with the band in 1923 and this session is generally considered the first "racially mixed" Jazz record, although Jelly didn't consider himself to be Black, but rather Creole. |
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| | Leon Roppolo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | Leon Roppolo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more | | | Roppolo recorded with the Original Memphis Five and the California Ramblers, but the recordings have been lost. | | | Born in Lutcher, Louisiana, Roppolo's family moved to New Orleans in 1912. |
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| | Friars Society Orchestra / New Orleans Rhythm Kings |
| | The solos of Leon Roppolo on clarinet and George Brunies on trombone are still considered classic, and have often been copied on other bands’ recordings. | | | Both Roppolo’s clarinet solo and Brunies’ trombone solo are considered classics; Brunies’ was often copied verbatim on later bands’ recordings. | | | Mares, Brunies, and Roppolo were the core—and the stars—of the band that would gain fame as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, although the band would go through several changes of personnel. |
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| | iqexpand.com |
| | Look for Leon roppolo in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video. | | | Leon Roppolo of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings Froggy's New Orleans Jazz Louis Armstrong | | | Leon Roppolo/George Brunies/Paul Mares/Walter Melrose/Ben Pollack/Melville Stitzel) 38502 Mercury SG 61081 (LP) MAME became the new Armstrong single, backed with THE SAINTS from the April session. |
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| | Milneburg joys |
| | They used to play it at informal gigs up along Lake Pontchartrain in their teens; it was a variation on the well known changes of one of the themes of "Tiger Rag". | | | Morton recorded this tune (often misspelled as Milenburg joys) in 1924 with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, but copyright is from 1925. | | | They called it "Golden Leaf Strut", after a brand of marijuana cigarette they were fond of (reefers were still legal in Louisiana in those days). |
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| | New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Roppolo was the first significant soloist on record, while Brunis would have a long career playing Dixieland. | | | The band broke up in 1924 when Mares and Roppolo returned to New Orleans. | | | The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK) were the finest jazz group to be on record in 1922, and the white band has served as proof that, even that early, African-Americans were not the only ones who could play jazz with individuality and integrity. |
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| | Leon Roppolo of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings |
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| | The Bixography Discussion Group |
| | Emmet’s first trip away from home came when a famous music hall performer of the day, Bee Palmer, heard Emmet while he was playing for a dance at the old Grunewald Hotel in New Orleans and hired the entire orchestra to act as her accompanists while on tour. | | | All went well for sometime and then the band and Miss Palmer had difficulties agreeing on salaries, and Emmet and Roppolo left Miss Palmer while they were in Davenport, Iowa. | | | Shortly after this Emmet left Chicago after a disagreement with the musicians’ union and returned to New Orleans, where he became ill and was unable to play. |
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| | Leon Roppolo |
| | He is remembered as being a pioneer of the jazz solo, as opposed to the collective improvisation of most New Orleans bands and for his lyrical and modern clarinet and alto saxophone playing. | | | Roppolo apparently made some recordings with the Original Memphis Five and California Ramblers but the sides were presumably unissued, or if issued unidentified. | | | Leon Roppolo was considered a genius by his contemporaries and like Bix Beiderbecke and Buddy Bolden he was another of the tragic young men of early Jazz. |
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| | Bix Beiderbecke |
| | As a teenager he would sneak off to the banks of the Mississippi to listen to the bands play on the riverboats that would come up from the south. | | | His first big influence was Nick LaRocca of the Original Dixieland Jass Band; the LaRocca evidence is evident in a number of Bix's recordings (especially the covers of O.D.J.B. tunes), although Bix far surpasses LaRocca both in technique and ideas. | | | Leon Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa to a strict middle-class family. |
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| | Wikipedia: New Orleans Rhythm Kings |
| | Mares, Roppolo, and Martin reformed the band back in New Orleans, where they made more recordings for Okeh and Victor in early 1925. | | | Various former members of the original New Orleans Rhythm Kings revived the band's name at various times from the 1930s through the 1950s. | | | George Brunies snapped up a lucrative offer from the nationally famous Ted Lewis Band. |
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| | The Man Who Made the Label a Legend |
| | In 1922, Wiggins invited Fred Gennett, secretary of Starr Piano and manager of its Gennett Records division, to hear the wild New Orleans house band at the Friars Inn, a nightclub frequented by gangsters and near the Starr Piano storefront. | | | In the early 1920s, he ran Starr’s Chicago retail store just as young jazz musicians from New Orleans, such as King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, Johnny Dodds, and Jelly Roll Morton, were migrating to the Windy City. | | | A Richmond native, Wiggins joined Starr Piano in 1907, and worked up the ranks. |
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| | KATRINA: NEW ORLEANS MUSIC |
| | Its most notable players were clarinetist Leon Roppolo and trombonist George Brunies, whose development of solo improvisation is evident in the group’s recordings. | | | Perhaps the band’s most interesting recordings were those done in July, 1923, with the famed composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton, a New Orleans Creole of color who had been among the first jazz musicians to take the music on the road. | | | However, the glory days of the Creole Jazz Band were of short duration. |
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| | Pete Fountain! in New Orleans! |
| | I used to listen from outside the club as a kid. | | | I've heard one or two of his records in my whole lifetime. | | | Faz's mother gave me his mouthpiece, which broke later on in years. |
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| | Paul Mares: Information From Answers.com |
| | From 1922-23, the band (renamed the New Orleans Rhythm Kings) recorded for Gennett and were arguably the finest jazz group on record, at least until King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. | | | In 1921 he formed the Friars Society Orchestra, a group that prominently featured trombonist George Brunies and clarinetist Leon Rappolo. | | | He left New Orleans in 1919 to work in Chicago with Ragbaby Stevens, and soon Mares was freelancing in the city. |
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| | Jazz, Ltd |
| | Perhaps the first really interesting jazz soloist on record (1922) was Leon Roppolo, clarinetist with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a rollicking white group that one year later participated in a historic studio encounter with pianist Morton. | | | The PBS series rightly hails Jelly Roll as the first jazz composer, but fails to detail his illustrious recording career as a soloist and leader. | | | Keppard, based here during the 20s, eventually made about two dozen sides that reveal him to be hard-driving but not-quite-swinging. |
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| | Words and Music by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo - 1922 | | | The chord names should appear in single rows. | | | Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | After entering Harrison High School in 1922, he played occasionally with the so-called Austin High School Gang (Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Frank Teschemacher, Dave Tough, and others), who modeled their music after the New Orleans Rhythm Kings; the clarinetist with the Rhythm Kings, Leon Roppolo, was an early influence on Goodman. | | | Goodman made his professional debut in 1921 at the Central Park Theater in Chicago with an imitation of Ted Lewis. | | | Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced) |
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| | Articles - 1943 |
| | *October 5 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. |
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| | ipedia.com: 1943 Article |
| | October 5 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. | | | October 7 - Eugeniusz Bodo, famous Polish actor, killed by the NKVD |
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| | All Night Blues: After Hours at The Landing |
| | Before World War I, at a time when jazz was still defining itself, musicians in New Orleans began to ‘swing’ popular Tin Pan Alley numbers like “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and “Panama” at late- night jam sessions after their regular gigs. | | | Left to Right: Leon Roppolo, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel, Arnold Loyacano, Paul Mares, Frank Snyder, George Brunies. |
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| | IJR.net - Song Info |
| | Paul Mares was a self-taught trumpet player and one of New Orleans earliest white players. | | | At age 14 Leon Roppolo ran away from home with a vaudeville actress, but was caught by police and returned to his parents. |
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| | were formed in the 1910's by childhood friends Leon Roppolo, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel, Arnold Loyacano, Paul Mares, Frank Snyder, and George Brunies. | | | In 1979 a vote was passed and the organizations name was changed to the Northeasterners. |
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| | San Francisco Public Library /All Locations |
| | Rappole, John H. Rappolo, Joseph Leon, 1902-1943 -- See Roppolo, Leon, 1902-1943 | | | Rappolo, Leon, 1902-1943 -- See Roppolo, Leon, 1902-1943 |
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