Dixieland on the Jump Label - featuring Rosy McHargue

Rosy McHargue had a career as a clarinet and sax player stretching back to the 1920's, but he spend almost ten years with Ted Weems band, playing and arranging.  By the middle 1940's he lived in the Los Angeles area and was playing up and down the coast with a dixieland band that took its cue from the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (his first great influence).  Before he became a national act through his recordings for Capitol, McHargue did sessions for many small labels, including Jump.  Here, his band has Bob Higgins on cornet, Moe Schneider on trombone, Earl Sturgis on piano, Ray Leatherwood on bass and George Defebaugh on drums.  Also included are earlier sides with Joe Rushton on bass sax, Brad Gowans on valve trombone, Nick Cochrane on cornet, Marvin Ash on piano and Graham Stevenson on drums.  Two tunes he did with Pete Dailey's Chicagoans for Jump are also included