Arvell shaw biography of alberta

Shaw was a double bassist who was born in St Louis, Missouri. Shaw learned to play tuba in high school, and switched to double bass soon after. As a teenager, he worked with Fate Marable on riverboats on the Mississippi River, just as Armstrong had done in his early career. After a few years in Europe, he played again with the Goodman band on a tour of Central America, but in Shaw played again with Armstrong, and occasionally accompanied him through the s.

My hunch is, as discussed in a letter Armstrong sent to Arvell Shaw in April, Armstrong was going down to Philadelphia once a month during this period.

Shaw then mostly played freelance in New York and kept playing until his death. He recorded only once as a leader, a live concert from of his Satchmo Legacy Band. I'm a very fortunate man to be able to do that. Now Benny Goodman had the reputation of being an eccentric, and all that, but I worked with Benny, I made his South American tour and I went to Europe with him twice and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.

Colar was born in in New Orleans; guitarist Al Casey was born in , in Louisville, Kentucky; and bassist.

It was just great, except for one time, in , when we went to the Brussels World's Fair. Before we left I told him, "Look, Benny, I'm going, but my wife is pregnant and the child is due on June 3rd, and it's going to be born over here, " And he said, "Well, that's OK, Gate. He said, "OK Gate, good, we'll be finished a week before.

Can you make it? I said, "Benny, I told you before I can't. I have to go, my wife is expecting. With the band we had five trumpets, four trombones, and I'm the bass player. We'd be playing a tune like "One O'clock Jump" and these five trumpets and four horns, they'd be screaming loud and the band would be all rocking, and Benny would walk to the mike and say, "Arvell, you're playing too loud.

He couldn't get me mad, not really, but after a while he said, "I can't make you mad, can I?