 | FANSHAWE COLLEGE GRAPHIC DESIGN - BEAR LIFE Promotional Video for the graphic design program at Fanshawe College. Created by Travis Sharrow & Sean Sanderson and starring Patrick Gunter as "bear". |
 | Alphonso Trent Orchestra - Gilded Kisses Alphonse Trent (or Alphonso Trent) (August 24, 1905 - October 14, 1959) was an American jazz pianist and territory band leader. Trent played piano since childhood and worked in local bands in Arkansas through his youth. He led his first band in the mid-1920s, possibly as early as 1923. In 1924 he played with Eugene Cook's Synco Six, and then took over leadership of the band, which played until 1934, playing mostly in the American South and Midwest, as well as on steamboats. He left music in the mid-1930s but returned with another band in 1938. His sidemen included Terrence Holder, Alex Hill, Stuff Smith, Snub Mosley, Charlie Christian, Sweets Edison, Mouse Randolph, and Peanuts Holland. Despite being a territory band, the group did tour a lot, though. From 1926-27 Trent's group toured Texas playing the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, the Waco Hotel (where they met the young trumpeter Harry James), the Austin Hotel, the Fort Worth Hotel, the Galvez Hotel in Galveston, the Rice Hotel in Houston, and opened the new Plaza Hotel in San Antonio. From 1927 through 1929 the Trent Orchestra traveled east, playing in Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington, Buffalo, Stanley, Ontario, and took their only New York City date at the Savoy Ballroom. During this period the band made its first recordings (four songs for the Gennett Company in Richmond, Indiana), competed with the great Louis Armstrong. The band was forced back to Fort Smith, Arkansas after a fire at the Plantation Club in Cleveland, Ohio destroyed the Trent Orchestra's instruments and library. The Alphonso Trent Orchestra made one last road trip in the winter of 1933. The end finally came in Albany, New York, at the Kenmore Hotel Trent eventually formed a smaller group, touring the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas. Trent spent the 1940's and 50's playing occasional dates as soloist and with small groups around his home in Fort Smith, Arkansas. As a leader, besides the four sides in 1928, he would only record two more in 1930, and two in 1933, all of them for Gennett. What a pity, since his skill was outstanding, as one can tell from this virtuosic rendition, recorded on October 11th, 1928. The vocal is by unidentified band member. Besides leader Trent at the piano, instrumentists included: Chester Clark, Harry Edison, Peanuts Holland, George Hudson and Irving Randolph, trumpet; Eugene Crooke, banjo and guitar; A.G. Godley, drums; Lee Hilliard, Hayes Pillars and James Jeter, alto saxophone; Robert "Eppie" Jackson, tuba; Leo "Stuff" Smith and Anderson Lacy, violin; Charles Pillars, tenor and baritone saxophone, as well as Leo "Snub" Moseley and Gus Wilson, trombone. |
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