Re: The Potato Amp?


"Mike Gilmour" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The King of Jazz was a bit of a misnomer.
His orchestra did not really play jazz
although he did have some very good jazz players.

But people were still trying to work out was jazz (written "jass"
in those days) was all about.


That monika was more to do with his own very blantant self-promotion than
anything else, e.g. see the 1930 Universal film 'King of Jazz' were Paul
played the lead. I agree his orchestra didn't play much jazz but it was
the name he was known as back then and it stuck (unfortunately), mainly
because he paid his muso's extremely well so no one was going to argue
about his title :-) back to single-toobas now...


There was also a string section of 6 (and sometimes eight) violins.
Not really a jazz , more like variety orchestra. The Billy Cotton
Band Show comes to mind:-)

Iain


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