 Firehouse Five Plus Two LP album cover. Ward Kimball, the band leader, is at left. The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department; Danny Alguire, cornet, Harper Goff, banjo, Ward Kimball, trombone, Clarke Mallery, clarinet, Monte Mountjoy, drums, Ed Penner, tuba and Frank Thomas, piano. Dixieland or Dixie is a name for the south-eastern portion of the USA; see: U.S. Southern States, Dixie. ...
Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ...
The Walt Disney Studios refers to several different entities and locations associated with The Walt Disney Company: The Walt Disney Studios is one of the media empires four main operating units. ...
Animation is the illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. ...
Harper Goff (born March 16, 1911 in Fort Collins, Colorado, died March 3, 1993) was an artist, musician, and actor. ...
Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914–July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award winning animator for the Walt Disney Studios. ...
Franklin Thomas (September 5, 1913, Fresno, California - September 8, 2004, Flintridge, California) was one of Walt Disneys team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. ...
Later, other Disney artists joined in; George Probert, Dick Roberts, Ralph Ball and George Bruns. Dick Roberts Dick Roberts, born October 9, 1897 - died 1966. ...
The band recorded twelve LP albums, starting in 1955. The last album, "Twenty Years Later", was published in December, 1969.
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