+ Horn = Dixie

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Jazz Ontario 1960's Art Snider's Canatal / Chateau Records Library The Toronto Jazz Scene

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+ Horn = Dixie

By: Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'

Origin: Sudbury, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Side 1

6 tracks

  • Maple Leaf Rag

    #1 Disc 1 Side 1 03:24

  • Ace in the Hole

    #2 Disc 1 Side 1 03:09

  • Ballin' the Jack

    #3 Disc 1 Side 1 03:37

  • Fidgety Feet

    #4 Disc 1 Side 1 04:40

  • Wise Guys

    #5 Disc 1 Side 1 03:09

  • Storyville Blues

    #6 Disc 1 Side 1 04:23

Side 2

6 tracks

About This Title

Jimmy (James Douglas) Davidson, "Trump" after ca 1936. Cornetist, singer, arranger, b Sudbury, Ont, 26 Nov 1908, d there 2 May 1978. A pioneer and promoter of jazz in Canada, he played trumpet at age 12 with the Canadian Legion Band in Sudbury and formed the Melody Five, one of the earliest jazz-styled groups in Canada (1925). Moving to Toronto, he worked 1929-36 with Luigi Romanelli (first as a singer, then as a cornet soloist and arranger, and occasionally as a baritone saxophonist) and briefly in 1935 with Rex Battle's dance band. read more: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=u1ARTU0000895 Murray Ginsberg: trombone Harvey Silver: piano Jack Wachter: clarinet Sam Levine (father of Mike Levine of Triumph): double-bass Reef McGarvey: drums Produced and engineered by Art Snider Recorded at Newberry Sound Studio, Toronto, Ontario Photo cover by Robert C. Ragsdale, assisted by Margaret Epp

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