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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who feel that 1917 saw zenith of recorded jazz will be pleased to hear that a member of the original Dixieland Jazz Band, one Tony Spargo (ne Sparbaro) has drunk the fountain of youth and gleaned strength enough therefrom to make another record. The anachronistic session took place under the auspices of the Swan Record Company and the songs "Sister Kate" and "I'll Never Be The Same" were played. Supported by another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz, | Title: Jazz | 9/27/1946 | See Source »

...that few Congressmen are less than perfect gentlemen, said that the articles had made their work harder by making Congressmen afraid to be alone with them. They were even more curious than indignant when the author of the unsigned stories turned out to be plump, bespectacled Post Reporter Mary Spargo, onetime investigator for the Dies Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wolf! Wolf! | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...Jazz Club will present its ninth concert of the season at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 P.M., featuring the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, with Brad Gowans, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Edwards, Tony "Spargo" Sbarbaro and Teddy Roy. Edwards and Sbarbaro were charter members of the group that made jazz history over a quarter-century ago. Gowans, who organized the present group and Hackett are well known to followers of dixieland jazz for their work with various small bands in New York Boston and Chicago...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 1/21/1944 | See Source »

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