Guest Stars
The many concert tours of The Allotria Jazz Band to North America in the beginning of the eighties led to a large array of musical encounters with diverse jazz greats. The band performed in Germany with Peanuts Hucko, cl (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon), Wild Bill Davison, ct, (Frank Teschemacher, Eddie Condon), Billy Butterfield, tp (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Les Brown), Trummy Young, tb (Jimmy Lunceford, Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong),Ralph Sutton, p (Jack Teagarden, Eddie Condon), Dick Cary, p und alto horn (Bob Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, E. Condon), Bud Freeman, ts (Austin High School Gang, Eddie Condon, Red Nichols, B. Pollack),Harold Ashby, ts (Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Duke Ellington), Bob Havens, tb (Bob Crosby), Warren Vache, tp (Benny Goodman, Woody Herman), Scott Hamilton, ts (Benny Goodman, Woody Herman), Louise Tobin, voc (Benny Goodman), Bill Allred, tb, Harry DiVito, tb. In the USA they performed with: Don Goldie, tp, Mike Vax, tp, Chuck Hedges, cl, Abe Most, cl (Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey), Eddie Miller, ts (Ben Pollack, Bob Crosby), Johnny Guarnieri, p (Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw),Henry Questa, cl, Norma Teagarden, p (Ben Pollack, Jack Teagarden), Bob Hirsch, p, Tom Saunders, p, Bob Draga, cl And: a jam session in the Munich Philharmonic with … Dizzy Gillespie und Hank Jones!