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Guaranteed against more than 1% shrinkage r»A| ADC, Royal Blue, Powder Blue, Grey, SHAWL COLLARGold, JACKETS Ru»t, Lime, Beige, etc. By George Hoefer ORIGINAL DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER Drummer Baby Dodds once told the writer his fondest memory of “river­ boat days” was the beautiful sound made by the mellophone, as playea by $18.75 Dave Jones, out on the open river The Fine full-bodied all-year-round re yon gaberdines, band that included Jones and Dodds, tu with black collars. Fully lined. Size* 34 Io 50 up. well as young Louis Armstrong, was long* end regular*. Smart, cool, good looking, end under the direction of the late Fate long wearing. Marable and came up the Mississippi on the S.S. Sidney in 1918. The mellophone is a rare musical in­ strument that you won’t find defined in the dictionary. The word “mellophone'’ is a synonym for tenor horn or tenor cornophone. This brass “vocal horn” was invented by Besson of France around 1900 and belongs to the sax horn and fiugelhorn family. It uses a cup-shaped mouthpiece and was de­ signed to resemble a French horn. Don Elliott, modern all-around musi cian, and Dick Cary, Dixieland pi­ anist, both seem to get considerable satisfaction from their work on the SENSATIONAL NEWS FOR mellophone. The -inly other musician who comes to mind is jazz pioneer SMALL COMBOS Dudley Fosdick, who passed away with a sudden heart attack last June in New 4 NEW WORLD OF SOUND IS YOURS York City. Dudley .F osdick belonged to GERRY MULLIGAN'S SKETCH-ORES the -Miff Mole recording group of the mid '20s. JIMMY GIUFFRE'S SKETCH-ORES MELLOPHONIST FOSDICK was 23 Originals — composed, arranged Classic Guitar Tutor by Laurindo Al­ born in 1902 at Liberty, Ind., a small and as recorded by Mulligan. Now in town near the Ohio border and a few « meida. A complete Method. Three miles south of Richmond, where Gen- one big book. Play in the style of our courses in one book. $5.00 nett Records were made. His brother times. Only $2.00 Gene was also a musician, and Dudley’s first recordings were made with Geno 27 Originals by Jimmy Giuffre for Fosdick’s Hoosiers The band was ac small combos by this new sensation. tually the of Real progressive Jazz. Get with the the early ’20s, with Gene and Dudley added. Gene for many years has con­ new sounds. Only $2.00 ducted a successful furniture business back in Liberty, but Dudley has been a lifelong musician. Dudley was educated at Northwest­ ern university and Columbia university, and it was probably while in New York 6 mil attending Columbia that he first started to play with the Nichols crowd. Around 1923, Red got his first chance to or­ ganize and lead his own band at the Pelham Health inn which, according to Woody Backensto. included and mellophonist Fosdick. A short time later Fosdick joined an early Ted Weems band and recorded with them. One of Dudley's close per­ sonal friends George W. Kay advises THE NEW SOUND IN CYMBALS that on Weem’s Big Boy (Victor) Fos dick takes a chorus with his big bell in a hat and derived a peculiar “buzzy” MUSICIANS!! effect that caused quite a stir among Xmas Gift musicians around New York in 1924. He did quite a lot of recording dur- duction, of Instrument* on cuff >ng 1928-’29 with Red Nichols Pennies, ♦ie bar Beautiful Mother of Pearl orchestra, and miscellaneous band trimmed with silver titles, as well as with Miff Mole’s M< >1- ers und the Louisiana Rhythm Kings. $7.50 He also made one «late with the Ben Complete «et, including tax and Pollack boys including McPartland, Ed­ SEE YOUR DEALER Money back guarantee. die Lang, Harry Goodman, and Ben PIANO DRUMS BANJO himself. This was the Irving Mills or write to the distributors : ACCORDIONI TRUMPET G CLEF Hotsy Totsy Gang Brunswick of Diga SAX VIOLIN HARF Diga Doo. HALL DRUM CO. GUITAR FRENCH HORN (Sorry, no C.O.D.'s) During recent years Fosdick has 315 DECATUR ST NEW ORLEANS 16 played in radio studios, maintained his PACIFIC MUSIC SUPPLY CO 1 wn studio at Carnegie hall, and was director, department of modern music, S SANTEE ST LOS ANGELES IS Roerich Academy of Arts.