Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project: Interview with Art Landry

Titles: Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project: Interview with Art Landry (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Family background. Art Landry's Symphonic Sextet - forming the orchestra; playing at the Curtis Hotel; meeting Eddie King of His Master's Voice (eventually became RCA); getting recorded; Art Landry's Call of the North on WLAG radio; the band. The Main Street Follies - playing for; George Alabama Florida; forming the band; Boyce Cullen. Booking bands. Stage presentation. Art Landry and his Minstrels. Buying and using private train cars. National Vaudeville Association. Playing for Al Jolson. Buying stock in His Master's Voice. Working during the Depression. Paul Whiteman, George M. Cohan, Perry Como, George Gershwin. Comments on recordings. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Landry Family Orchestra; being a concert violinist; starting his own orchestra; Art Landry's Symphonic Sextet; negative connotations of the word jazz; auditioning for Mr. Mellany; getting reviewed in Variety; signing a record deal and recording; performing on the radio; booking bands and venues; touring and traveling Canada, United States, and Mexico; National American Musicians Union; paying the musicians; stage sets; playing with Al Jolson; barnstorming; playing with Paul Whiteman; Vaudeville acts; The Call of the North Orchestra; recording studios.

Dates

• 05/08/1987 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Landry, Art
• interviewer: Warmington, Carl

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 129
• Accession Number: AV1989.137.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project' <OH 129>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 46 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:45:56 running time

Subjects

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