The Little Ramblers

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From the second half of the 1930's some of the famous Big Bands in the USA featured small groups from their ranks at concerts and on record. The bands of Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Paul Whiteman had their "Clambake Seven", "Gramercy Five", and "Swing Wing" respectively, to name a few. The idea however, was not new. In the early 1920's a small contingent from the well-known dance orchestra the "California Ramblers", began recording for several American record companies. Although the main orchestra played engagements, mostly in summer, in Atlantic City and New York, it was actually a recording band, its members being mostly employed in other bands or as free-lance musicians. Click Here To OrderThe California Ramblers made hundreds of records in the 1920's sometimes under their own name but often, for contractual reasons, under pseudonyms such as "The Golden Gate Orchestra". Their smaller offspring, usually a five to eight piece combination, recorded under a wide variety of names such as The Goofus Five, The Vagabonds, The University Six, The Five Birmingham Babies and, on the Columbia label, as The Little Ramblers, thereby not disguising the relation with the parent orchestra. The nucleus of the group was its strong rhythm-section consisting of Irving Brodsky (piano), Tommy Felline (banjo) and the by then already famous pioneer of the bass-saxophone Adrian Rollini. Born in 1904, Rollini had mastered that rather unlikely instrument in the early 1920's as well as, not withou

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The Little Ramblers 1924-1927

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The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs of the Jazz Age, Vol. 2

The Encyclopedia Of Jazz. Classic Jazz. Volume 020

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Adrian Rollini Groups 1924-27

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Sentimental Journey 76

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Adrian Rollini Groups: 1924-27

The Little Ramblers 1925-1927

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1924-1927

Arkansas Blues

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Classic Jazz - The World's Greatest Jazz Collection 1917-1932: Vol. 20

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Jazz Roads Classic Jazz CD 20 - Adrian Rollini Groups: 1924-27

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Adrian Rollini Groups- 1924-27

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