SWING ERA : Ralph Marterie and Gene Kruppa Orchestra

Ralph Marterie Big Band and GENE KRUPPA
SWING ERA.
in memory of collectors died of the Disc Club of Lima Peru.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• BIG
• BAND
• SWING
• ERA
• GENE
• KRUPPA
• Ralph
• Marterie
• ORCHESTRA

[razalatinaPeru]

In memory of collectors died of the Discomana Asociation of Lima Peru

En memoria de coleccionistas fallecidos de la Asociacion Discomana del Peru que tuve el honor de conocer.

[generationll]

Some of this live music is pretty good

[ivelostmypurplecrayo]

Ralph Marterie'sLead alto was Len Gagliardi, on the hit recordings of the orchestra, Jack Gaylo was 2nd alto, in this video it was Len not Jack, Jack might have gotten the lead spot after Len retired. Look it up. Len Gagliardi was the one who played the lead on Caravan, Skokian, and the sweet alto solo in Up the Lazy River with Rusty Drapper. I know Len and Jack were very good friends, but The Saxymaxy has it all wrong. 

[TheSaxymaxy]

Ralph always put together great bands with some of the finest talent. That's Jack Gaylo on lead alto. One of the world's finest saxophonists to lead a section. They don't get that beautiful sound that he had anymore. He was a great friend and mentor. He was also Ralph's road manager for many years right up to the end.

[ppue]

"Fine and Mellow"

[kizzdoll]

wats dat last song called

[generationll]

One song I like by Ralph Materie is Caravan.Heard that on 1300 WJDA in Quincy,Mass aboout 7 years ago.

[jrb51055]

Sigh, my mom probably had this on one of her MANY MANY 78 rpm's BEFORE i turned them into frisbees. I am SO sorry mom.

[PhillyDog1980]

After Midnight was my very favorite jitterbug tune. Won a jitterbug contest to it in 1952 (or thereabouts). It has a great jitterbug beat.

[Phosonell]

Well, Haley´s Tenorman was - as far as i know - member of this band before his career as one of the Comets. His name was Rudy Pompilli, like mentioned below. But i didn´t recognize him in this clip. The Baritonesaxplayer was also called Rudy, but his last name was something like Parrow (can´t remember).