Born: March 7, 1908 in London, England
Died: August 6, 1998
Genres: Hot Jazz, British Dance Band, Dixieland
Instruments: Trumpeter, Bandleader, Singer, also played Mellophone
Associated acts: Lew Stone, Roy Fox, Nat Gonella and His Georgians, Humphrey Lyttleton, Digby Fairweather
Trumpeter Nat Gonella was a revered pioneer of British jazz. In the early 1930s Gonella played in the great dance band of the Monseigneur Restaurant, led by Roy Fox and later Lew Stone, and also led his own band, The Georgians.
Gonella played and recorded with a who's who of British jazz musicians, including Billy Cotton, Archie Alexander, Digby Fairweather and Monia Liter. He also worked with two of the greatest British popular singers of the 1930s, Al Bowlly and Sam Browne, and jammed casually with American greats including Fats Waller, Wingy Manone and Bobby Hackett. In New York Gonella recorded some sides for Decca with a band that included Benny Carter and Buster Bailey. Though most famous as a trumpeter and bandleader, Gonella would sometimes take to the microphone, sounding for all the world like a cockney Louis Armstrong.
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Nat Gonella: A Life in Jazz
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Al Bowlly, Tiny Winters(?) and Nat Gonella
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Dance Band Years
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The Very Best of Nat Gonella
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Nat Gonella with Lew Stone & Al Bowlly
some CDs from the Monseigneur band
"...Try to make the music into words and 'speak' them on your instrument as you would in conversation, with a pause here, an inflection there, an accentuation here, and so on....To sum up - put some feeling into it."~Nat Gonella
from Modern Style Trumpet Playing
Nat Gonella (standing on the left)
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"Breakin' the Ice" by Nat Gonella & His Georgians
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MY FAVORITE NAT GONELLA LINK!
- NAT GONELLA Centenary Campaign!
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LINKS
- NAT GONELLA TRIBUTE
- A tribute to...Nat Gonella.
- Nat Gonella: 1908-1998
- Nat Gonella
Trumpet, singer, bandleader
Born: March 7, 1908 in London, England
Died: August 6, 1998 in Gosport, England - Nat Gonella: A Jazz Legend
- Nat Gonella: A Jazz Legend Bio
- Nat Gonella on British Big Bands Database
- An Archive, History, and Database of British Big Bands.
- Article - Nat Gonella
- "Memories of Nat Gonella"
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