![]() ![]() They always welcomed young aspiring musicians, and people like Albert Ammons were always dropping in. A favorite, though, was visits to Estelle and Jimmy Yancey’s home at 11 W. Mush remembers playing with Lee Collins at The Victory Club, Bud Jacobson at the Apex Club, Georg Brunis at the 1111 Club, Baby Dodds and Miff Mole at The Bee Hive, and Bill Reinhardt and Munn Ware at Jazz Limited. They played on Chuck Marsh’s weekly jazz program, and the performance was transcribed for broadcast on the State Department’s “Voice of America.” In 1949, the Salty Dogs appeared as the intermission band for a Doc Evans Jazz Band concert sponsored by the Jazz Society and held at Fowler Hall on the Purdue campus.ĭuring the 1948-49 school year, the Salty Dogs began to make excursions to Chicago to play with the University of Chicago Jazz Band and to sit in with musicians at various clubs. Soon, the Salty Dogs made their first recording, a broadcast from Purdue radio station WBAA. Business got so good that some evenings the line to get in stretched down the block.” Since the group had both a drummer and washboard (Mushlitz), Mush was urged to take up the banjo and did so. A jazz band was a brand new thing both at Purdue and in Lafayette, so business picked up. We sat in the middle of the back room to play the place was long and narrow. ![]() According to Mushlitz, “When we started playing there, it was on a once-a-week basis. The Gun Club was a lively establishment, serving as a local hangout for the Purdue students to let off a little steam. The recording begins with a vamp, and then someone yells out, ‘Oh! You Salty Dog!’ We looked at each other and immediately decided this should be our extra-curricular name.” ( Hear The Track.) Birch recalls, “Ted Bielefeld was in my room one afternoon, and we were listening to a 12-inch Blue Note recording of “ Salty Dog” by a Hodes group which featured Sidney Bechet. Since The Original Peerless Jazz Band had formal University ties through the Purdue Jazz Society, they felt it prudent to take another name for off-campus engagements where they would be paid for their efforts. In the fall of 1948, the band was hired for their first off-campus job at the Gun Club in Lafayette across the Wabash River from the campus. Some of The Original Peerless JB members in the first few years were: Smith, cornet and slide trumpet Mushlitz, washboard and banjo John Palmer, piano Cliff Selman, drums Ted Bielefeld, clarinet and soprano sax Bob Berg, trombone Don McMillan, clarinet Howard Simpson, cornet and Carl Zaisser, piano. In addition, the band would play tailgate on a flatbed truck for campus rallies. The Original Peerless Jazz Band played for campus functions including some concerts in the Memorial Union Tower Room. Mush brought a thesaurus to my room and, after consulting it, we settled for The Original Peerless Jazz Band.” We were both moving in the direction of New Orleans jazz and wanted a band name similar to the Excelsior Jazz Band or Original Superior Jazz Band. He used to come to my room frequently to listen to records. ![]() As Birch Smith recalls, “Mush and I had become special friends. A band name was selected by Birch Smith and Dick Mushlitz. Birch Smith-tpt and Dick Mushlitz-bjo, co-founded the group at Purdue University in 1947.Įventually, a Jazz Society band was formed as a democratic group there was no designated leader tunes and tempo were selected by mutual agreement. TablEdit can even recognize tablature images and pdf files.After a time, the Jazz Club grew as students living outside Cary Hall became involved eventually it became a University-wide organization re-named the Purdue Jazz Society, and meetings were held in various rooms in the Purdue Memorial Union Building including the Tower Room. Files can be saved in TablEdit format or exported to ASCII, HTML, ABC, MusicXML, Lilypond or MIDI formats. TablEdit can open/import ASCII, MIDI, ABC, Guitar Pro, PowerTab, Bucket O' Tab, TabRite and MusicXML files. Through ongoing consultation with experts on other instruments, TablEdit has developed support for harmonica, mountain and hammered dulcimer, pedal steel guitar, diatonic and chromatic accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, xaphoon, native american flute, oud and banjo. TablEdit tablature files are created with TablEdit™, a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments.Īdditionally, TablEdit, while designed for guitarists, by guitarists, is not limited to guitar like other Tablature programs. TEFview allows you as well to view and listen to PowerTab, MusicXML, Guitar Pro and TabRite files. TEFview is a Viewer for TablEdit tablature files. ![]()
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