(1928) Walter Roesner and The Capitolians

[@llpos]

That's my dad (Lou Bring) about 4 minutes in. Playing piano (left side of frame), singing and dancing.

[@mickeyclark5315]

Harry Bring - I am writing a blurb about your dad and can't seem to find any info about him. A very familiar name for a record collector so I find that a bit odd - can you tell me a little bit about him?

[@gilgamess]

Did the banjos strings make it home after this solo? Your Dad won the "Who's the hottest?" contest. What a solo!!

[@llpos]

Mickey Clark www.google.com/search?q=lou%20bring

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

@@llpos died 16th of february 2021....

[@roybo1930]

How Lucky You are indeed! To be able to see Your AWESOME Dad Dancing and Singing one of the Hottest versions of Dina ever, I LOVE the Paper Taring sound effect, You hear this a lot in 1920`s Music! May I ask, Who is Your Mother?? I have a feeling She was GREAT as well!

[@maxsavage3998]

How is it not one person here giving huge props to the best Banjo Solo in world History? It was the highlight of this video

[@steveb9151]

Some serious shredding...done decades before Mr. Van Halen

[@Weyjx]

He's fk ing amazing . It wasn't lost on me

[@margaretthomas8899]

Some greats here!

[@sgit1]

Just . . . WOW!

[@maxsavage3998]

Best banjo player in history. That solo was mindblowing

[@philiprobson8016]

Not sure about the 'Best banjo player in history' bit but he would have given Harry Reser a run for his money that's for sure.

[@maxsavage3998]

@@philiprobson8016 not in same league

[@homzymusic]

Amazing to see some legendary white jazzers and their techniques and body language/deportment. Jimmy Dorsey does his virtuoso set-piece, which I first heard in "That's No Bargain". Miff Mole seemingly shy & angular. Nat Brusiloff & Georgie Stoll showing-off with the two most radical violin techniques - which were never acknowledged in the classical pedagogy. Jimmy Lytell, one of the most promising of the young, early white jazzers - who gave up creative music for a secure life in the studios reading charts all day. Leo McConville one of the most ardent admirers of Bix. Meanwhile, who remembers Walter Roesner??? So much $$ and so much talent invested in this odd short film. Thank you all -

[@jessicamcwilliams2773]

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[@hanseekhoff1093]

Are you sure that is Georgie Stoll?

[@homzymusic]

@@hanseekhoff1093 I don't know - all I know is that both violinists are quite good - near Venuti's talent.

[@mortmort9302]

@@homzymusic Stoll copped Venuti’s 4-String Joe shtick and didn’t do it very well. See my Facebook post about Venuti for John Green’s take on it.

[@JazzloverNYC]

Kurt Deiterle?

[@witkrag4953]

My kind of music.Encore Maestro.

[@barbaraeffros4804]

Never seen this! Nat Brusiloff, Lou Bring, Leo McConville and more!! Thank you so much!

[@carolmizrahi3550]

Thank you for mentioning Nat Brusiloff. It's not a name most people are familiar with these days. He was an extraordinary man., musician, and father.

[@GoddessOfGuinness]

@@carolmizrahi3550 Do you have any idea what he's using instead of a bow?

[@stephenduffy562]

Wonderful stuff. And i predict paper tearing will be the new rock n' roll.

[@gilgamess]

It can be safely argued that Lou Calabrese has no fingerprints on his left hand. Wow!

[@maxsavage3998]

He was born without. Its the most impressive solo in banjo and music history

[@bobboscarato1313]

That was a fantastic orchestra with very talented musicians. Love their interpretation!

[@genesbeans]

I love Miff Mole. One of the great musicians of the '20s.

[@sywedis4019]

90 years is a long time ago. Hard to fathom all the changes in music. This one still stands the test of time.

[@remesdh]

I marvel at how different popular culture must have been when songs and scenes such as these were standards, and I try to imagine my father, who was only 18 when this one was filmed, living in this world.

[@luismantaras6460]

Incredible film with such musicians!

[@MarieRouth-l4t]

Love it, brings back good times

[@carolmizrahi3550]

The fiddling guy? My Dad, Nat Brusiloff Carol Brusiloff Mizrahi

[@carolmizrahi3550]

Always fiddling around!

[@TadeodeWiesent7]

¡¡¡BRAVÍSIMO!!! ¡UNA JOYA, UNA BELLEZA ÚNICA! 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐

[@lunamae4718]

WOW ! I love this !

[@mickeyclark5315]

Just checked - it was done as early as 1926 - found it also by Original Memphis Five

[@theglennmillerfanatics42]

Jimmy Dorsey was on some crack with that sax solo he sure was one of the best saxophonists to live!

[@damnthewar]

thank you very much for sharing this with the music lovers world

[@ChrisYonts-q7y]

All-star cast!

[@eduardodifarnecio2336]

Words? God help me sublime. On my knees. Thank you.

[@paulmicelli5819]

ALL TALENT in that Band!

[@marilynndonini7247]

Vic Berton, I believe, on drums! Great drummer of the period and an inventive artist, as his paper percussion gag attests here! Also acknowledged as the inventor of hanging cymbals on a metal rod to stabilize them and increase their versatility! What a band! Thanks for posting this...

[@mickeyclark5315]

Marilynn Donini This looks more like Stan King

[@wasnhas]

@@mickeyclark5315 it is Berton

[@SAHBfan]

Right time, right place , right skills - the other musician’s are Berton’s contemporaries, so it should be Berton. Trouble is… in the paper tearing solo there is a very brief close up. It just doesn’t look like Berton… 🤔

[@hanseekhoff1093]

This is definitely not Vic Berton, doesn’t look like him at all, nor is it Stan King - this guy looks like him even less!

[@marilynndonini7247]

After rummaging around photo files I've come to agree with the "Not Vic Berton" cohort! Mayyyybe Vic Moore before his ill-fated trip to France with George Carhart's aggregation (July, 1928), but that's a long shot, I know! Any other suggestions? Whoever he his, he certainly learned from Burton, as they all did!

[@tirolschellack3914]

Oh my god - I love the Trombone - and I love Miff Mole! Danke schön!

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

Willkommen

[@flamindigo]

Jimmy Dorsey is definitely the "hottest" of the Capitolians.

[@Firebrand55]

Great posting; a real find........thanks for posting....Jimmy Dorsey playing superb alto sax. A fun orchestra that must have had Roaring Twenty-ers howling for more! You do a great service in naming the musicians you can; they should be remembered as pioneers....well done!

[@chrismacdonald9330]

That Jimmy Lytell cameo makes me cry... so much sensitivity is heart-wrenching ❤️ and don’t you just love those hip movements...? One for my funeral, as and when...?❤️

[@peterwetzel7796]

Fantastische Musiker !

[@gavinmillar7519]

Best video on KZbin.

[@Daviej5700]

Wonderful..

[@RoryVanucchi]

What a great clip.. Real treasure

[@john86779]

i would have loved to have lived in them days the music is so good

[@mazda1942]

Yes, but without the poverty and disease.

[@michelechiaretti7376]

che meraviglia

[@suzyf5733]

Wow! Just wow! Absolutely amazing! Thank you!!👍

[@janettewalker3991]

So good - made my morning.

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

Yes Janette, today I've found this in my date base and decided to put it on KZbin to sharing. Thanks for your reply. André

[@solet579]

Oh, it's fantastic!!

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with very good interesting photos

[@billfurman1494]

When they finally invent the Time Machine, send me to '28!

[@johnkelly5897]

You mean the year just prior to the Wall St crash?

[@moniquechandra6644]

Monique Chandra I'm surprised that no one identified the drummer as the great Vic Berton - playing cymbals and snares in front of him and the hot tympani behind his back. This was confirmed to me many years ago by his younger brother Ralph, who was my friend for the last 20 years of his life, when I sent him a copy of this video when it appeared on TBS. It's also confirmed at the IMDb database here: www.imdb.com/title/tt1827582/ Roesner mostly conducted his band in San Francisco, but was so popular on the Shell Happytime radio show that he was lured to the Capitol Theater in New York for two years. By the way, the reason why both Vic and Miff Mole are wearing fake mustaches is that, at the time, they were both under contract to the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra and so tried to disguise themselves. But please add Vic's name to the video! He and Baby Dodds were the two most important jazz drummers of the 1920s!

[@hanseekhoff1093]

This guy doesn't look like Vic Berton at all. Even if Ralph Berton identified him that still doesn't prove it - Ralph was a notorious fantasist as his nonsensical book about Bix confirms. It's tempting to think that this drummer is Vic Berton - but it isn't.

[@Gavin-Rice1894]

Because it’s not Vic Berton.

[@moniquechandra6644]

@@Gavin-Rice1894 wrong-showed the clip to Ralph Berton and he identified his brother and yes, I know the way Ralph could be with telling stories but he did know his brother and you probably didn't I suppose so I will go with what he said. BTW, he laughed over that mustache on Vic as he knew that sometimes Vic did that to cover up that it was him. It's Vic, may be hard for you to believe, but that is Vic.

[@moniquechandra6644]

@@hanseekhoff1093 On Ralph's book, you must remember that Ralph was a teenager at the time and viewed Bix from a very young person's perspective. From what we now know about Bix--some of it rather disgusting to say the least--what Ralph thought about Bix was true though at Ralph's age he wouldn't understand it at the time when it was occurring i.e. most likely Bix was bi-sexual and rather confused which Ralph, I can tell you, never understood at all even later in life as he never believed Gene's story either and Ralph said that to me personally. Ralph's book, though Bix is in the title, is more about the Berton family itself--quite a family there--with Bix being just a side character in the book.

[@moniquechandra6644]

@@Gavin-Rice1894 No, it's Vic, Ralph identified him

[@frankolen4137]

Great music better than the stuff now

[@luismantaras6460]

It's wonderful seeing those musicians playing!

[@waltergray7722]

Brilliant post !!! Thank you for sharing.

[@john86779]

best music ever

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

4:18 Vic Berton on the newspaper

[@R3Dgamer4205]

Nobody plays a paper like him

[@hanseekhoff1093]

That is not Vic Berton; it's tempting to think so but this guy doesn't look like Berton at all.

[@moniquechandra6644]

@@hanseekhoff1093 It's Vic Berton, Ralph Berton identified him.

[@barbaraeffros4804]

Jimmy Dorsey too!

[@michaeloleary1867]

So good!

[@robcat2075]

Unnecessary wide screen. This is a 4:3 film and you've ruined it by stretching it out.

[@dahliafully]

Roesner led the San Francisco NBC Orchestra.

[@dackelmommy]

Jimmy Lytell ... clarinet. (Of course, I play clarinet, too!!)

[@billfurman1494]

Five years on and Adnoid Hynkel -- that one would give me pause -- Tomania 1933!

[@markdavids]

prachtig

[@debrareisdorf5684]

😂The year that my mother was born!!

[@mickeyclark5315]

I'm wondering if 'A Blues Serenade' was originally named different. The Parish-Signorelli song wasn't published until 1935. Like 'Charleston Cabin' and 'St.James Infirmary'

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Well maybe it was, but at any rate, one of Frank Signorelli’s two known piano solos recorded in the 1920s and unfortunately unissued (I don’t know whether the masters and/or test pressings exist- I hope so!!!) is labeled in the files “A Blues Serenade”. The other solo was “Goose Pimples”. Both recorded in full band versions of course but I would have loved to hear what Mr Signorelli did with them. His later (1940s and 1950s) solo recordings are very good of course. He was one of the best recorded white jazz pianists from the 1920s and in my opinion one of the most musical, with a lovely touch and tone. Of course he did not pioneer THE STYLE with which many of these pianists played. I believe that was pioneered (invented?) by Arthur Schutt as far back as his earliest recordings and piano rolls in 1922 (we don’t know when Schutt started playing like this). Interestingly, while such important pianists in this manner like Signorelli and Earl Hines play DIFFERENTLY on their earliest recordings, before picking up on “the style”, Schutt was playing in this way all along from the very earliest recording, which is why I credit him as the pioneer. Also, in his autobiography, John Hammond noted that Schutt was his own first “discovery”.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I need to look in the discography when I get home to get the details on that unissued Frank Signorelli solo session. I can’t remember what record company or date, but I’m pretty darn sure it was either 1927 or 1928.

[@CPorter]

Where is Bruce Yantis on this? I've been told that he is one of the violinists here.

[@john86779]

o boy what great music not like the shit of today feet going mad

[@popzom4440]

The violinist at the end looks a lot like George Mallory

[@franzjosefkerkhoff592]

Very nice, but the ratio of the Video is wrong!

[@moldyoldie7888]

Should be something like 4:3 or less.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Too bad sound didn't come to films earlier than it did (actually it did but was rejected by the film studios as being a passing fad) The Roaring 20s still roaring a year before the crash and on sound film.

[@KeithE4]

Lou Calabrese would have had a home with Spike Jones 20 years later. He reminds me of Freddie Morgan.

[@maxsavage3998]

Is that all? How could you not give him props for that solo

[@casparpolitman]

is the last violinist Georgie stoll???

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

I couldn't find the name of violinist. It could be?

[@casparpolitman]

Yes it looks like him search him and compare ;)

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

Great. Thanks!

[@coldwar1952]

....and his world record violin

[@briansinclair4961]

boy that's hot

[@jourwalis-8875]

Looks and sounds more like the 50s than 1928!

[@ugniusstackunas8915]

This., ,.!?! ',..STIVE, WAY ! :.,, IS ;':'; VINTAŽ!!

[@trent3872]

Is this Metallica?

[@thardingau]

Is Miff Mole big or is his trombone small?

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

He and also his trombone is big because of the stretching of the clip

[@hanseekhoff1093]

Miff plays on a small bell trombone, not unusual in the 1920's.

[@RobertAndrews-i5m]

The 1920s had good music and bad liquor The 2020s have bad music and good liquor.

[@user-mp3lt9ib8d]

3:58

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

@Harry Bring died 16th of february 2021....

[@user-mp3lt9ib8d]

​@@GeorgeFormbyJr ive seen it on google

[@rodrigoarayap1995]

Is it me, or Brusiloff has a black eye? (the right one, to be exact)

[@yorammizrahi4341]

You're right. It does look like he has a black eye. BTW, that's my dad.

[@yorammizrahi4341]

Not Yoram at all. Carol Brusiloff

[@hanseekhoff1093]

Nobody seems to know who the drummer is.....

[@GeorgeFormbyJr]

Do you know him?

[@hanseekhoff1093]

No, of course not. I would have said so.

[@brucenicholls854]

No wonder Bird and Pres dug Jimmy Dorsey

[@hanseekhoff1093]

Yep - and they never really got it.

[@andresfabianbarreraaraujo7341]

Play back

[@msjazzmeblues]

Fine band. Worst band outfits ever!

[@nickdellow6073]

I think the drummer may very well be a young Ray Bauduc rather than Vic Berton

[@SAHBfan]

It certainly looks more like Ray Bauduc than Vic Berton!

[@hanseekhoff1093]

@@SAHBfan Yeah - but it ain't Bauduc either.

[@moniquechandra6644]

I do understand your reasoning, but no, it's Vic, Ralph Berton identified him.

[@moniquechandra6644]

@@SAHBfan It's Vic Berton, Ralph Berton identified him.

[@KenWilldoc-t1p]

@@moniquechandra6644 What is your source for this? Where and when did Ralph Berton identify his brother in this movie short?