Matty Matlock and His Rampart Street Paraders

Los Angeles-based Dixieland studio orchestra, briefly popular in the mid-1950s. Commissioned by composer-arranger Paul Weston, the band was led by clarinetist Matty Matlock and included among its lineup Eddie Miller (also on clarinet), George Van Eps on guitar, Nick Fatool on drums, Clyde Hurley on trumpet, Stan Wrightsman on piano Phil Stevens on bass and Abe Lincoln on trombone. A 12" Columbia LP (titled "Rampart and Vine") proved sufficiently successful for the ensemble to record three further LP's. For these albums, bass saxophonist Joe Rushton and trumpeter Johnny Best were brought in and Jack Teagarden also replaced Hurley. Two of the tracks, "Texas Mood" and "Paucah Parade", were composed by Matlock himself. The final LP, titled "The Rampart Street Paraders at Storyville: Sometime in the 1960s", was actually cut in San Francisco in the early 60s and featured cornetist Billy Butterfield and bassist Ray Leatherwood.