Celebrating the Legends

BILL

ALLRED

Bill Allred

From My Allred Family -

“Bill was born near the Mississippi River in the town of Rock Island, IL. He played trombone in high school, college and the US Navy Band.

In 1971, he joined Walt Disney World as a staff musician. Since Disney, Bill appears in concert with Billy Butterfield, Bob Crosby, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Miller, Al Hirt, Dick Hyman, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, Al Cohen, Louis Bellson, Snooky Young, Ross Tomkins, Bob Cooper, Urbie Green, Carl Fontana, Milt Hinton, Bob Haggart, Butch Miles, Buddy Morrow, Tex Benecke, Billy Maxted, And The Lawson-Haggart, World’s Greatest Jazz Band.”

From Riverwalk Jazz Collection -

“His jazz performances have taken him to the major jazz festivals and concerts in the United States and abroad. Bill has appeared in concerts with Jack Teagarden, Billy Butterfield, Al Hirt, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Snooky Young, Ross Tomkins, Bob Cooper, Milt Hinton, Bob Haggart, Butch Miles, Tom Saunders, Chuck Hedges, and countless other jazz personalities from all over the world.

For some years, Bill was a member of the Wild Bill Davison Jazz Band, traveling to Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, South America and at many other festivals and concerts worldwide. Bill still remains a member of Wild Bill Davison Legacy Band, a group championed by cornetist Tom Saunders. The Wild Bill Legacy recently performed concerts in Lacrosse, Wisconsin and Sacramento and returned to Europe in 1995 on their 10th Anniversary tour.”

JOEL

SCHIAVONE

Joel Schiavone

From Joan Dragon –

Joel Schiavone and crew performed one year several years ago at festival. He was all in it for the show and had fun. He did “drop trou” on occasion, peeling down to USA FLAG undies, which he did at Suncoast to the not so humorous venue sponsor tastes.

Joel was the one to revive banjo music with Your Father's Mustache clubs.  I cut my banjo teeth there. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, he had 13 national and international locations. The New York Club was housed in a famous jazz venue in the Village - Nick's.location

He took the music to the White House, Carnegie Hall, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and the Ed Sullivan show. 

The traveling "circus" was called Hairy Lip Productions and that group played all around the country.  In all he really kept the old tunes alive.

From The Syncopated Times –

“A graduate of Harvard and Yale with a visionary business mind he was deeply committed to New Haven Connecticut and is widely credited with the revitalization of the city’s downtown from near abandonment in the 1970s into a model of “new urbanism”, long before that phrase was coined.  Known locally both as “Mr. Downtown” and “New Haven’s Don Quixote”, he ran for office several times and is remembered for camping out on the local coliseum in an attempt to keep his AHL hockey team in town. Whatever he attempted he approached with optimism….”

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