GEORGE WETTLING

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George Wettling (November 28, 1907 - June 6, 1968) was an American jazz drummer.

He was one of the young white Chicagoans who fell in love with jazz as a result of hearing King Oliver's band (with Louis Armstrong on second cornet) at the Lincoln Gardens in Chicago in the early 1920s. Oliver's drummer, Baby Dodds, made a particular and lasting impression upon Wettling.

Wettling went on to work with the big bands of Artie Shaw, Bunny Berigan, Red Norvo, Paul Whiteman, and even Harpo Marx: but he was at his best (and will be best remembered) for his work in small 'hot' bands led by Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, and himself. In these small bands, Wettling was able to demonstrate the arts of dynamics and responding to a particular soloist that he had learned from Baby Dodds.

Towards the end of his life, Wettling (like his friend
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GEORGE WETTLING George Wettling's Jazz Band album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
George Wettling's Jazz Band
Dixieland 1951
GEORGE WETTLING Geo. Wettling's Jazz Trios album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Geo. Wettling's Jazz Trios
Dixieland 1956
GEORGE WETTLING George Wettling And His Windy City Seven album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
George Wettling And His Windy City Seven
Dixieland 1958
GEORGE WETTLING George Wettling's All Stars : Dixieland In Hi-Fi album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
George Wettling's All Stars : Dixieland In Hi-Fi
Dixieland 1958
GEORGE WETTLING Is George Really George? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Is George Really George?
Dixieland 1986
GEORGE WETTLING Dr. Jazz, Vol. 12 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dr. Jazz, Vol. 12
Dixieland 1994
GEORGE WETTLING George Wettling 's Stuyvesant Stompers : Dr. Jazz Vol. 15 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
George Wettling 's Stuyvesant Stompers : Dr. Jazz Vol. 15
Dixieland 2001

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GEORGE WETTLING George Wettling / Bobby Hackett : Jazz Session album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
George Wettling / Bobby Hackett : Jazz Session
Swing 1980
GEORGE WETTLING The Chronological Classics: George Wettling 1940-1944 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Chronological Classics: George Wettling 1940-1944
Dixieland 1996

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