Paul Ash & His Orchestra - Oh! If Only I Had You

  • 15 years ago
German-born pianist, violinist and band leader Paul Ash formed his first band in 1910, worked for many theatres and discovered a lot of new talent playing in one of his orchestras. It seems his recording career spanned the twenties and the first half of the thirties. This lovely record was made in 1926. Personnel was John Valentine, John Linn, tp, Roscoe Lantz, trombone, Phil Wing & Herbert "Putty" Nettle,clarinet,al sax, Howard Grantham, cl, tn sax, Harry Barris, p, Paul Ash, vio, Julian Davidson,bj, Pierre Olker,br bass, Arthur Layfield, drums. The great vocalist is Milton Watson.