The Bucktown Five was a

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

group active in the early 1920s in the

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area of the United States. The group played a

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style of collective

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jazz and were forerunners of the Chicago style which developed in later years. About eighteen months after breaking up, many of the same players recorded in Chicago as the Stomp Six. The Bucktown Five also recorded with

Bix Beiderbecke Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical app ...

. The band's name is linked with New Orleans, as Bucktown is a Chicago neighborhood, but also the name of the settlement that grew up on the shore of

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after the close of Storyville. It became a smaller version of that district.

Members

* Guy Carey - trombone *

Volly De Faut Voltaire "Volly" De Faut (March 14, 1904 – May 29, 1973) was an American jazz reed player. De Faut was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, but his family moved to Chicago when he was six. He played with Sig Meyers in the early 1920 ...

- clarinet, alto saxophone * Marvin Saxbe - banjo, guitar, cymbal * Bill Shelby - banjo *

Muggsy Spanier Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist based in Chicago. He was a member of the Bucktown Five, pioneers of the "Chicago style" that straddled traditional Dixieland jazz and swing ...

- cornet *

Mel Stitzel Mel Stitzel (January 9, 1902 – December 31, 1952) was a German-born pianist best known for his work with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a leading jazz band of the early 1920s. The leading members of the group including cornetist Paul Mares, tromb ...

- piano

Discography

The group recorded on the Claxtonola and other labels. Recordings include: *The Bucktown Five - ''Chicago Blues'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five - ''Hot Mittens'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five - ''Mobile Blues'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five - ''Really A Pain'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five, Bix Beiderbecke - ''Buddy's Habits'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five, Bix Beiderbecke - ''Chicago Blues'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five, Bix Beiderbecke - ''Someday Sweetheart'', 1924 *The Bucktown Five, Bix Beiderbecke - ''Steady Roll Blues'', 1924

References

External links

Bucktown Five - Steady Roll Blues (1924) from YouTube
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