Adrian Rollini on vibes and bass sax - Rare broadcast

An acetate air-check from October 1936, featuring Adrian Rollini playing vibraphone on “Honeysuckle Rose“, switching to bass sax for “Tap Room Swing“, named in honour of the Tap Room, a New York club that Adrian Rollini ran at the time. The club consisted of a couple of rooms in the basement of the President Hotel at 234 West 48th Street. At the very start of the broadcast, Rollini introduces himself by blowing a phrase on the bass sax that is very similar to one he plays during the opening strains of “Beatin’ The Dog“ by Joe Venuti’s Blue Four, recorded in June 1927. A new biography of Adrian Rollini by Ate Van Delden will be published later this year, and I can highly recommend it. It can be pre-ordered via Amazon. This book has been some 30 years in the making and provides a wealth of information on Rollini and many other jazz luminaries that he encountered during his highly successful career, such as Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and Fred Eliza