ArtistInfo

The Happy Six

Band,
Jazz and Pop

Organised by band contractor Harry Yerkes, this group recorded extensively for Columbia between 1919 and 1923, employing some of the most important names of the jazz and dance band world of the time, including Rudy Wiedoeft, Ross Gorman, Clyde Doerr, Bennie Krueger, Earl Oliver, Clarence Gransie, Ted Fiorito, Phil Ohman, and xylophonists Joe and George Hamilton Green. Most importantly, some of their records feature pioneer New Orleans musicians Alcide Nunez and Tom Brown, being the first made by the latter - a key figure in both the earliest New Orleans bands to move to the North and also the New Orleans revival of the 1940s.

Members

	Tom Brown tb 1888-1958 US
	Alcide Nunez cl *1884 US
	Earl Oliver tr
	James Lent tr, dr US