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The Rollie Beaupre Quartet
The Rollie Beaupre Quartet

Album US 1965 on Loren Records label
Jazz

Small pressing, 1965. From the The North Star Monthly, January 2006 Rollie Beaupre Quartet Owned Northern Vermont, By LOIS FIELD WHITE Excerpt by Valerie T. Crowley- "From the 1930's through the 70's dancers flocked to Harvey's Lake in West Barnet, Point Comfort on Joe's Pond, the Sunset Ballroom in Lyndonville, the Blue Moon in St. Johnsbury, Mallett's Bay, the Littleton Opera House and many other places where bands played swing music for dancing every Saturday night. These musicians had music as a part of their genetic makeup. Many played by ear; that is the tunes seemed to go in their ears and out their fingers, and it was as natural for them to play as it was to breathe. The Rollie Beaupre Quartet was one of the best groups of the era. The Quartet was composed of its founder, Rollie Beaupre on drums; Stan Folsom on piano; Leo Henault on saxophone; and Warren Prince on bass. These four gifted musicians were from musical families and had all played with other bands for years. Rollie knew them all and established the Quartet in 1960. Stan wrote songs, and he and Leo arranged many of the quartet's tunes. The men seldom held rehearsals; they merely practiced together before dances. They wore matching outfits with dark trousers, white or colored jackets, white shirts and ties." Beaupre once traveled to New York City to play with Benny Goodman at the instigation of a vocalist who had performed with both of the men. Beaupre played with the Goodman Band at the Paramount Theater in New York on Labor Day weekend during wartime in 1942 or 1943. They did four shows a day there for 3 or 4 days, and Beaupre remembers many military servicemen and women in the theater and at the stage door canteen next door. He was invited to accompany Goodman to California to perform in a movie. Beaupre considered the offer but decided to return to St. Johnsbury and his family and business. Nevertheless, the taste of life in the big city was exciting and he looks back on those four days as a great experience.

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	The Rollie Beaupre Quartet , album by, written by
	Warren Prince b, bass
	Rollie Beaupre dr, drums, leader
	Stan Folsom p, piano
	Leo Hanault sax, saxophone

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