Red Nichols And His Five Pennies Featuring: Benny Goodman • Glenn Miller • Gene Krupa • Jack Teagarden • Eddie Lang • Adrian Rollini • Miff Mole • Jimmy Dorsey • Bud Freeman • Joe Sullivan, Carl Kress - The Red Nichols And His Five Pennies album flac

Carl Kress started his career as banjo and guitar player, recording with the best white jazzmen of the 1920's, among them Bix Beiderbecke. In the 1930's, Kress became a central figure in the conception and perfecting of the jazz guitar duo. He was first heard in the company of Eddie Lang in 1932 (Feeling My Way), then with Dick McDonough (Chicken a la Swing) and Tony Mottola (Jazz in G). In 1961, he formed a duo with George Barnes after working for a long time in studios and radio and television far from jazz. Red Nichols And His Five Pennies Featuring: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini, Miff Mole, Jimmy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan, Carl Kress - The Red Nichols And His Five Pennies ‎(LP, Comp, Mono).

Adrian Rollini (born June 28, 1904, New York City, New York, USA - died May 15, 1956, Homestead, Florida, USA) was an American jazz t who played the bass saxophone, piano, vibraphone, and many other instruments. He was a member of the California Ramblers (1922-1926).

Kress started on piano before picking up the banjo. Beginning in 1926, he played guitar during his brief time as a member of Paul Whiteman's orchestra. For most of his career, he was a studio musician and sideman buried in large orchestras, and his name was little known Outside of orchestras, Kress played in several guitar duets with Eddie Lang (1932), Dick McDonough (1934, 1937), Tony Mottol.

Both Red Nichols and Miff Mole later led their own groups named Original Memphis Five. Phil Napoleon, however, would continue using the group name until 1990. An example of two of their recordings for Columbia was "Mobile Blues" and "How Come You Do Me Like You Do" on Columbia 260-D in 1924. The Five Pennies is a semi-biographical 1959 film starring Danny Kaye as cornet player and bandleader Loring Red Nichols. Other cast members include Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, and Tuesday Weld. The film was directed by Melville Shavelson.

In 1926 he and Miff Mole began a prodigious stint of recording with a variety of bands, most of them known as Red Nichols and His Five Pennies. Very few of these groups were actually quintets; the name was simply a pun on Nickel, since there were five pennies in a nickel. That was only a number we tied in with my name, Nichols once explained. The 1959 Hollywood film The Five Pennies, the film biography of Red Nichols, starring Danny Kaye as Red Nichols, was very loosely based on Nichols' career. Nichols played his own trumpet parts for the film, but did not appear on screen. The Paramount movie received four Academy Award nominations. Nichols also made a cameo appearance in the biopic The Gene Krupa Story in 1959. Nichols and his band performed briefly, billed as themselves, in Quicksand, a 1950 crime film starring Mickey Rooney. And in 1956 he was the subject of one of Ralph Edwards’ This Is Your Life TV shows, which featured his old buddies Miff Mole, Phil Harris and Jimmy Dorsey, who praised Nichols as a bandleader who made sure everybody got paid.

Red Nichols (c), Tommy Thunen-Mannie Klein (t), Glenn Miller (tb, arr), Jack Teagarden (tb), Herb Taylor or Charles Butterfield (tb) or Bill Trone (mel), Pee Wee Russell (cl, ts), Bud Freeman (ts), Joe Sullivan (p), Eddie Condon (bjo), Art Miller (sb), Dave Tough (d). New York, June 12, 1929. After You've Gone - The Charleston Chasers (Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Jimmy Dorsey) (1927).