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  title info:
    title: Adrian Rollini
    sub title: the life and music of a jazz rambler
  name:
    name part: Delden, Ate van
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Adrian Rollini (1903-1956), an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, played the bass saxophone, piano, vibraphone and an array of other instruments. He even introduced some, such as the harmonica-like cuesnophone, called Goofus, never before wielded in jazz. Adrian Rollini: The Life and Music of a Jazz Rambler draws on oral history, countless vintage articles and family archives to trace Rollini's life, from his family's arrival in the United States to his development and career as a musician and to his retirement and death. A child prodigy, Rollini was playing the piano in public at the age of five. At sixteen in New York he was recording pianola rolls when his peers recognized his talent and asked him to play xylophone and piano in a new band, the California Ramblers. When he decided to play a relatively new instrument, the bass saxophone, the Ramblers made their mark on jazz forever. Rollini became the man who gave this instrument its place. Yet he did not limit himself to playing bass parts. He became the California Ramblers' major soloist and created the studio and public sound of the band. In 1927, Rollini led a new band that included such jazz greats as Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer. During the Depression years, he was back in New York playing with several bands including his own New California Ramblers. In the 1940s, Rollini purchased a property on Key Largo. He rarely performed again for the public but hosted rollicking jam sessions at his fishing lodge with some of the best nationally known and local players. After a car wreck and an unfortunate hospitalization, Rollini passed away at age fifty-three.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The first Rollini generation arrives in the USA -- Piano roll artist -- Ed Kirkeby and the California Ramblers -- The California Ramblers taking off -- The California Ramblers grown up -- The California Ramblers to the top with Adrian Rollini -- The California Ramblers back to business -- Kirkeby loses his grip, the end of the contracts -- Freelancer Adrian Rollini -- A band of his own -- With Fred Elizalde in England, -- With Fred Elizalde in 1929, the second year -- Out of Europe and into the Depression: Bert Lown -- Adrian Rollini: freelance -- Back to the California Ramblers and Bert Lown -- In and out of the deepest depression -- A shop and a trio -- Trio years: before and during the war -- Postwar trio years -- Appendix 1: Adrian Rollini's instruments -- Appendix 2: Engagements without definite dates -- Appendix 3: Filmography -- Appendix 4: Adrian Rollini compositions -- Appendix 5: Adrian Rollini recordings issued on CD.
  note: Ate van Delden.
  note: Includes appendices.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rollini, Adrian
  subject:
    topic: Jazz musicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz
  classification: ML419.R619 D45 2020
  classification: 781.65092
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    title info:
      title: American made music series
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191217
    record change date: 20210422112804.0
    record identifier: in00004413957