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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down
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Feat. Rodolfo Schuster

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The "Memphis Jazz Band" perform for their 30th Anniversary in Montevideo, Uruguay featuring Rodolfo Schuster leader, cornet, & vocals, Pedro Freire trumpet, Artigas Leal and Cacho de la Cruz trombones, Nelson Varela and Rodolfo Rodriguez tenor sax, Daniel Damiano Romanelli piano, and Christian Lopez bass.

*"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" was composed in 1935 by Fred E. Ahlert, with lyrics written by Joe Young.

The Memphis Jazz Band began its activities in 1986 and has participated in many regional jazz festivals. The band started out as a Dixieland group, also playing blues paying tribute to various artists such as Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Horace Silver, Wynton Marsalis, Al Jolson, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Sinatra, which means a very wide range of styles. In their 30 years of existence, the "Memphis Jazz Band" has become an icon of Uruguayan Jazz.

The band's leader Rodolfo Schuster was born in Germany in 1935 and moved with his family to Uruguay, South America in 1939. As a child he was taught by his father to play harmonica and he grew up listening to his father's jazz reccords by Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Fats Waller and many other bands of the day.

In 1950 he learned to play the trumpet and in 1953 put together a band called the Montecasino Jazz Band that he led until 1963. Emigrating to the United States he joined the Delaware Jazz Fraternity where he met many great American Jazz musicians, with some of whom he was able to play.

He lived in the U. S. until 1982 and then moved back to Uruguay where he started a daily radio Jazz program on a local FM station. In 1985 he put together the Memphis Jazz Band performing at monthly concerts in many theatres in Montevideo and other cities around the country as well as at some Jazz festivals in Argentina.



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