Sharkey Bonano
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Joseph Gustaf "Sharkey" Bonano, also known as Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas, was an American jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist. His musical abilities were sometimes overlooked because of h
Bonano performs (center at microphone) in New Orleans in 1950. Photo by Stanley Kubrick
Frankie Trumbauer
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Orie Frank Trumbauer was an American jazz saxophonist of the 1920s and 1930s. His main instrument was the C melody saxophone, a now-uncommon instrument between an alto and tenor saxophone in size and
Sharkey Bonano
…Freddie Newman and Chink Martin. After moving to New York City, he found work as a member of the Wolverines and with Jimmy Durante. He worked next to Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke as a member the Jean Goldkette orchestra. At the end of the 1920s, he led a band which included Louis Prima. During the 1930s he…
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Photograph of Trumbauer featured in Ken Burns' Jazz
Okeh 78, 40772-B, "Singin' The Blues", with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang, early 1930s pressing.
Columbia 78 reissue, 35667, "For No Reason at All in C", with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang.