Cotton City Jazz Band 1 - Bogalusa Strut

Cotton City Jazz Band from Belgium
Megève - France
12th. July 2009

Line-Up:
Eddy Sabbe - Clarinet & Vocal
Bruno van Acoleyen - Trumpet
Jasper van Pelt - Trombone
Alain Lesire - Piano
Herman Sobrie - Bass
Jean-Pierre Roelant - Drums

Bogalusa Strut is a tune first recorded on October 22th. 1927 by the composer and very fine trumpet player Sam Morgan and his famous Band with among others Jim Robinson on trombone.

The Cotton City Jazz Band is founded in 1962. Since then the Cotton City has a long history in playing New Orleans Jazz. The legend trumpeter 'Jacques Cruyt' who has become world wide recognition for his trumpetstyle, was in the original formation. The Cotton City has done many recordings with original jazzmen like, Louis Nelson, Kid Thomas, Percy Humphrey, Don Ewell, Alton Purnell, Emanuel Sayles and Freddie Kohlman. Nowadays the legacy goes on and the Cotton City is still going strong playin' the New Orleans Jazz and get their inspiration by the great Jazzplayers. Kid Ory is one of them and the Cotton plays many tunes from the great Kid Ory Band from the years 40 and 50.

During this tour the famous and regular trombonist from the Cotton City Romain Vandriessche was hospitalized
It was great to play with this band. The Cotton played marvelous stuff in Megève and had a lot of succes..

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Megeve
• 2009
• Jazz
• New Orleans
• Cotton
• City
• Bruno van Acoleyen
• Eddy Sabbe
• Alain Lesire
• Herman Sobrie
• Jean-Pierre Roelant
• Jasper van Pelt
• Piano
• Trombone
• Clarinet
• Trumpet
• Bass
• Drums. Alley Cats

[tatellis]

Keep it up guys. WIll you come to Vancouver?