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Arthur Schutt

Born: November 21, 1902

Arthur Schutt (November 21, 1902 – January 28, 1965) began his professional music career in 1915, accompanying silent movies on the piano. In 1918 he began playing with the Paul Specht Orchestra as a teenager and stayed with Specht for several years. He travelled with the band to London in 1923 where he recorded two piano novelty records for the Regal label.

Throughout the 1920s he worked with numerous bands including the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra. By the late 1920s Schutt was a sought after studio musician in New York and he appeared on a great many records with jazz greats such as {{m: Bix Beiderbecke = 3746}}, {{m: Red Nichols = 9872}}, {{m: Frankie Trumbauer = 10913}}, {{m: Joe Venuti = 11049}} and {{m: Benny Goodman = 7112}}.

Red Nichols: The Red Heads

by Andrew J. Sammut
May 6, 2011

Red NicholsThe Red HeadsJazz Oracle2003 If you play on your own terms for small audiences without any recognition, you're a hero; if you do it while earning a steady paycheck and selling plenty of records, you're a sell-out. Or so it might seem for Ernest Loring “Red" ...

Retrieval Records: Treasures Lost and Found

by Nathan Holaway
October 13, 2010

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."-- Louis Armstrong “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was ...

Rambling In Rhythm / Jack In The Box

By Arthur Schutt

Label: Audible Hiss
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