George Trevare

George Trevare was an Australian Jazz trombonist, orchestral arranger and conductor. He wrote a number of his own compositions.[1] Possibly well known for producing live radio dance band performances (escaping trade union bans on recording, due to the perceived threat to band members livelihood).[2][3] Trevare also worked in a nationalist era, when he recorded Australian versions of popular content from overseas, to comply with domestic radio broadcasting quotas of local content[4][5] and introducing local content in a style emulating popular imports [6]

George worked with a number of famous people. In 1945, his band included Wally Norman (trumpet), George Trevare (trombone), Rolph Pommer (saxophone), Pat Lynch (piano), Morgan McGree (guitar), Horrie Bissell (bass), Al Vincer (drums, vibraphone) and a young Don Burrows playing clarinet.

Singer Lawrence Brooks on one of the Trevare recordings, is the father of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Geraldine Brooks.

In the 1950s and 60s he produced two TV music shows, The Magic of Music (1961) and Look Who's Dropped In, a four part series about jazz (1957).

Works

  • 1943 Out of The Blue Gums - original composition by Trevare
  • 1943 'Don't Sweetheart Me' with vocals by Joan Blake
  • 1943 Der Fuhrer's Face
  • 1944 Under The Trees with vocals by Lawrence Brooks
  • 1944 No Love No Nothin’
  • 1944 Let's Have One For The Road
  • 1944 Blue Velvet with vocals by Johnny Fitzgerald
  • 1945 arr. One of these days by Joe Slater
  • 1945 arr. The Silver in my Mother's Hair by Vince Courtney
  • 1945 The man from the snowy river : a modern fantasy[7][8]
  • 1945 Waltzing Matilda with radio 2GB dance orchestra
  • 1947 arr. of songs by Letty Katts and Eric Aitken
  • 1947 Back to Croajingalong arr. music Dunlop, Pat (composer) and Lind, Alice (lyricist) [9]
  • 1945 arr. 'Curl The Moe Uncle Joe' by Jack Lumsdaine
  • 1945 arr. "Am I?" by Jack Lumsdaine
  • 1952 “I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover”.
  • 1956 Innamorate
  • 1956 The Rock And Roll Waltz
  • 1956 Always Take A Girl Named Daisy
  • 1956 A Bushel And A Peck

References

  1. ^ "GOSSIP". Smith's Weekly. Vol. XXVII, no. 8. New South Wales, Australia. 21 April 1945. p. 14. Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "MUSICIANS' BAN HALTS RECORD-MAKING". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 92, no. 28, 519. South Australia. 6 March 1950. p. 11. Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Band leader works here". News. Vol. 54, no. 8, 293. South Australia. 6 March 1950. p. 20. Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ ""PRODUCE YOUR AUSTRALIAN NAMES..."". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 32, 831. Victoria, Australia. 23 November 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ George Trevare and his Orchestra; Carr, Walter, (singer.) (1947), Never never : I love you more and more, [Sydney, N.S.W.] Columbia, retrieved 16 March 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "BAND MAKES "HOT JAZZ" RECORDINGS". News. Vol. 45, no. 6, 900. South Australia. 12 September 1945. p. 8. Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Trevare, George; Williams, Ronald (1900), The man from the snowy river : a modern fantasy, Columbia, retrieved 16 March 2021
  8. ^ "George Trevare's Jazz Group - Waltzing Matilda (1945)".
  9. ^ Dunlop, Pat (composer.); Lind, Alice (lyricist.); George Trevare's Jazz Group (performer.) (1945), BACK TO CROAJINGOLONG : [PERFORMED BY GEORGE TREVARE'S JAZZ GROUP], Regal Zonophone, retrieved 16 March 2021