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Snoozer Quinn

TonyReesTonyRees New South Wales, Australia
in Eddie Lang Club Posts: 140

If Eddie Lang was "the swing era's other great guitar virtuoso", maybe Snoozer was "the swing era's other other great guitar virtuoso" - what do folk think? Sounded like Lang a lot on some snippets in the 20s, later kinda like a more heavily swinging George Van Eps with shades of Lonnie Johnson and Oscar Aleman - tragically under-recorded but his last sessions are a masterpiece! More info recently (last 10 years or so) researched and collated by Kathryn D. (Katy) Hobgood Ray, a distant relative, see https://snoozerquinn.com/ ... his last (hospital bed) recordings collated (with 5 non Snoozer tracks added) as "Snoozer Quinn With Johnny Wiggs & Johnny Wiggs Big Five – The Magic Of Snoozer Quinn" (mostly a reissue of 1969's "The Legendary Snoozer Quinn", recorded 1949) and can be listened to via Spotify (some tracks also replicated on youtube, audio only). Plus there is even video footage of him from 1932 but with no sound - available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHPViwpHz4M . Thoughts, comments, interest all welcome!

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