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Nat Gonella and his Georgians – Basin Street Blues, with Vocal refrain by Nat Gonella, Odeon 1935 (UK)

NOTE: Nat Gonella 1908-1998) British trumpeter and bandleader most remembered from his activity with The Georgians, during the Big Band Era in London. Born in Islington North London, Gonella learned playing cornet during his schoolyears. Between 1924-28 he played with a small junior pit orchestra and during this period he became acquainted with the recordings of Louis Armstrong, and the New Orleans jazz style. In 1929 he joined the famous Billy Cotton band which provided him with a prominent platform on the concert stage and also on radio, and allowed him to record his first jazz solos and vocal features (which included scat singing). In 1931 hew played briefly with Roy Fox and then stayed in that band when Lew Stone took over leadership the following year. It was with Stone's band that Nat Gonella firmly established his reputation. When Louis Armstrong visited London in 1932, Gonella met his idol by begging the staff of a music shop to allow him to deliver Armstrong's trumpet, left at the shop for cleaning, to his hotel room. Armstrong was amused to find such an ardent devotee and two men became friends. In 1933 Gonella published a book called Modern Style Trumpet Playing – A Comprehensive Course. In 1935 he formed his own band The Georgians, which took its name from a highly-popular version of the song "Georgia On My Mind”. The band became a headline dance orchestra in London until the outbreak of World War II, when Gonella was recruited into the Stars In Battledress campaign, touring allied camps in Europe and North Africa. He reformed his band after the war, trying with bebop but acknowledged that it was not for him.The revival of traditional jazz in the 1950s allowed him to reform his Georgians again and in the 1960s Gonella's orchestra reappeared on the BBC radio programmes. All that ended when the advent of the Beatles brought the trad jazz boom to a halt. He moved to Lancashire in 1962, and toured regularly on the Northern club circuit until his retirement. He continued to sing occasionally with various bands and died at his home in Gosport, Hampshire in 1998.