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Joe Marsala (January 4, 1907 – March 4, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, born and initially based in Chicago, Marsala moved to New York City in 1933 at the request of Wingy Manone. It was in NYC that Joe found his greatest success as the leader of the 1936 band that entered the Hickory House on 52nd Street. He remained there as leader for ten years.. Eleisa Marsala Trampler is the author of articles about her parents appearing in The Clarinet("Don't Let It End Pt.I: Joe Marsala," June 2007, and "Don't Let It End Pt.II: Bobby Gordon", September 2007, and subsequently on the Riverwalk Jazz Archives. Mrs. Trampler is also the source of information along with her mother, Adele Girard, for The Sweethearts of Swing by Philip D. Atteberry appearing in The Mississippi Rag, May, 1994 and subsequently in The American Harp Journal, Summer 1999. An article, "Adele Girard Marsala: First Lady of the Jazz Harp" by Marsala-Trampler appeared in the American Harp Journal, Winter, 2005.. Liner Notes for the Arbors Records CD "Bobby Gordon Plays Joe Marsala: Lower Register"(ARCD 19352) were also written by this author in 2007....
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