He left Armstrong and formed the Jack Teagarden All Stars Dixieland band in 1951. In 1949, the All-Stars traveled to Europe, where they did 65 concerts in 35 days. admin After two months with the Tommy Gott Orchestra Teagarden secured a position in Pollacks organization, where he beat Glenn Miller for the seat of first trombone. Teagarden was not a successful band leader, which may explain why he is not as widely known as some other jazz trombonists, but his unusual singing style influenced several other important jazz singers, and he is widely regarded as the one of the greatest, and possibly the greatest, trombonist in the history of jazz. Genres: Swing, Vocal Jazz, Dixieland. Teagarden, quite a ladies man, married the first of four wives, and wrote to her prophetically from the road: I have been drinking a terrible lot but I am going to quit.. He played the last six weeks of the tour with a serious hernia, but refused to undergo surgery until the commitments had been filled and all his dates had been played. As one columnist put it, his visit was worth ten diplomats. From a down-on-his-luck jazzman to senior statesman and musician extraordinary, Teagarden has come up the hard way to stand as one of the truly permanent figures in American jazz. He was 58 years old and had reportedly been suffering from pneumonia. While shaking his head in amazement at the creative prowess of the trombonist, Williams also delineated some of the mans superb talent. If I Could Be with You (One Hour To-night) Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra. The listener knows she is in the presence of something rare and wondrous and magical two spirits soaring to the beat of one drummer, a drummer no one else can hear. "@type": "Person", Needless to add, the time Jack and his friends spent together was quite often on stand. His health grew worse and he suffered recurring bouts of flu and pneumonia. His mother gave him early piano lessons, and his father, a bit of a musician himself, presented Jack with a trombone on his seventh Christmas. Looks like we don't have awards information. Los Angeles-based La Santa Cecilia is really a Latin group that pulls inspiration from all , Your email address will not be published. Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong. See also Mr. Teagarden was responsible, in the late twenties, for an addition to jazz folklore. He told endless stories about a Texas piano player named Peck Kelley, and although almost no one else in jazz ever heard him play, Mr. Kelley became a legend. On short notice, he joined Roger Wolfe Kahn's orchestra for a recording datewearing the largest hangover on Manhattan Island, Kahn recalled later, yet reading the arrangements like a veteran and booting out a pair of choruses which were mildly sensational.. [2], In the late 1920s, he recorded with such bandleaders and sidemen as Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn Miller, Eddie Condon, and Fats Waller. Leave a comment. Looks like we don't have quotes information. Would sure like to hear you play.Solo StuffThe guy says, All right, gets his horn out, puts it together and blows couple of warm-up notes and starts to play Diane. Sorry! Jack was given piano lessons when he reached the age of five. He was considered by many to be the greatest jazz trombonist of his era, but his style was so unusual that others did not follow his example. What mattered was that Hack was a guy dedicated to the sound a hard-lipped genius can get out of a sliphorn. He moved to Chappell, Nebraska, with his family in 1918, but by 1921 was back in Texas playing with Peck Kelleys Bad Boys. All the music I've played has finally paid off, he said. Performer: Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra; Jack Teargarden Writer: Kennedy; Carr Vocal Chorus. An insurance agent and former Doberman breeder for 30 years, Atwell now trains abused dogs. Beginning on trombone at age seven, Teagarden was entirely self-taught. Even at the earliest stages of his career, he exhibited an extraordinarily elastic and modern technical facility with his lips and slide. Although playing his horn and leading his group occupy most of Teagardens waking hours, he manages to find time for his family wife Addie and his son Joe and for his puttering and tinkering. In a voice segment spliced into the documentary, Teagarden says black bandleader Fletcher Henderson and musician Fats Waller befriended him in New York, and took me places I dont think any other white boy had ever been., From there his career soared. In 1933, after a brief stint in Mal Halletts band, he signed on with Paul Whitemans orchestra for five years. Some sources claim his unusual style of trombone playing stemmed from the fact that he began playing before he was big enough to play in the farther positions. I went to the kitchen to say hello. Teagarden was also a respected jazz singer and developed his own blues vocal style. The trombone slide has seven positions where traditionally notated (chromatic scale) pitches can be played. Some critics considered him the best man ever on his instrument and one of the handful of jazz musicians, along with such men as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, who deserved to be called geniuses. The musicians thought he was some kind of gag. He died in a motel room only hours after playing his last set from a chair because he was too weak to stand. The ease with which Jack pumps out the smooth overall line of the chorus as well as the occasional disagreeing spurts of melody, is still a revelation in the art trombone playing. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). They are 3.5mil truncated eliptical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. May 2-7. Jack Teagarden, byname of John Weldon Teagarden, (born August 20, 1905, Vernon, Texas, U.S.died January 15, 1964, New Orleans, Louisiana), American jazz trombonist, unique because he developed a widely imitated style that appeared to have arrived fully formed. All these guys include legendary musicians like Bigard, Earl Hines, Bing and Bob Crosby, the Dorsey brothers, and even Walt Disney, who shared Teagardens lifelong love of steam engines and model railroads. The world was full of sitdown strikes and big depression and govern- ment alphabet soup. Atwell has never forgiven the media for that. The fact that jazz personalities share with Broadway, Hollywood, etc., a dependence upon the momentary enchantment of mass-minded America is an irony in itself, although perhaps one of the lesser ironies. And wherever he is now, I hope the guy from Texas has a big sliphorn to make that noise that brings him peace. Jack Teagarden, byname of John Weldon Teagarden, (born August 20, 1905, Vernon, Texas, U.S.died January 15, 1964, New Orleans, Louisiana), American jazz trombonist, unique because he developed a widely imitated style that appeared to have arrived fully formed. By 14, Teagarden was playing professionally. And Jack had another drink which he poured down pronto. With abuse heaped upon him, Teagarden became the first white musician to travel on the road with an all-black band. The All Stars did well, but Teagarden left in 1951, in order to once again put together his own band. singer, charming and warm, with influences from the African American Teagarden has appeared in movies, has sung on the air and on TV, and has recorded actually thousands of sides. The Scotch is the same in all these places., Jack sighed, You dont understand. The masterful Teagarden was an American original whose style and vocals epitomized authenticity both in their execution and sound. From 1939 until 1947 he toured with his own big band, which, though financially unsuccessful, produced both good music and good musicians (including Charlie Spivack and Ernie Caceres). He is generally considered the greatest jazz trombonist ever. He joined the Peck Kelly band in 1921, when he was sixteen years old, and hasnt been off the scene since. JP Jazz Archive /Redferns. Omissions? When Jack was in Cambodia, the jazz-loving, clarinet-playing king of that country presented the trombonist with a medal for meritorious service to the arts. Born: August 20, 1905Died: January 15, 1964. One such occasion was recounted by Jimmy McPartland in Hear Me Talkin to Ya, a book telling the story of jazz in the words of the musicians who live it. One of the most remarkably consistent performers in jazz history, Jack Teagarden never played less than flawlessly and, when in the right company, frequently set standards for creativity and instrumental brilliance that to this day remain beyond the grasp of most. Teagarden was the featured perfomer at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1957. His father, an amateur comet player, worked in the oilfields, and his mother was a local piano instructor and church organist. In addition, he has won legions of musicians as fans, not only because of his playing but also because of his untiring battle against the percent tax, which has kept him from singing at many club engagements in the last decade. Tony Weitzel, Chicago Daily News, January 17, 1964. My sources disagree concerning which band brought Teagarden to New York, and with whom he made his earliest recording, but there is agreement that he arrived in New York in 1927 and was playing with Ben Pollacks orchestra by 1928. His father played trumpet, as did brother Charlie, while brother Clois played drums, and sister Norma played piano. He has a disposition as easy-going as the languid phrases he blows so often, and as sunny as the warm grin which cracks his face into scores of merry wrinkles. Each position causes the instrument to be a slightly different length, and the instrument can play a (different) harmonic series at each length. Another interesting aspect of the recordings of this period is that they show very clearly that, unlikely many other jazz musicians of the time, Teagarden was a true improviser, giving notably different solos on different takes of the same piece " even when the recordings were made on the same day. Lots of clips of Jack, including home movies, as well as interviews with musicians who worked with him, . Instead, he played higher in the instruments range, using mostly the first and second positions, and rarely moving beyond fourth position. Being a friend and not a snoop I never dug into Jacks personal affairs so I do not know whether he stayed married very long to that cute little blond girl or not. Recalling the 60s, she says her father eventually began drinking again. It is also unlike the original since it is complete in itself and not an uncompleted half of something. [2] In 1946, Teagarden joined Louis Armstrong's All Stars. Unfortunately, this band also cannot really be considered a success. Teagarden also had a remarkable voice. Jack Teagarden played trombone with a relaxed style and a unique technique that still inspires awe even today. "url": "https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/jack-teagarden" Jack Teagarden was a trombone player, singer, and band leader whose career spanned from the 1920's territory and New York jazz scenes to shortly before his death in 1964. By 1928 he played for the Ben Pollack band. T. documented frequently numerous groups including systems going by Roger Wolfe Kahn, Eddie Condon, Crimson Nichols, and Louis Armstrong (Knockin a Jug). Although he once sang a blues line that testified he was born in Texas and raised in Tennessee. Among the many tunes which are his are Basin Street Blues (he and Glenn Miller combines on the lyrics of the now-famous blues, although neither is credited on the sheet music), Stars Fell on Alabama, Pennies From Heaven, Rockin Chair, and Ive Got a Right to Sing the Blues. The following year the family moved to Oklahoma City. Pollack's recordings were Teagarden's first. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Charlie Teagarden (July 19, 1913 - December 10, 1984), known as 'Smokey Joe', was an American jazz trumpeter. Therefore he has to take something shorter than the original, and make it complete in itself yet not so final that what follows his solo will sound like padding. In the early 20s, Teagarden joined the legendary Peck Kelly Band, Pecks Bad Boys, in Texas. Wednesday they found Jack in a New Orleans hotel room, cold and dead. The Fort Lauderdale daughter of jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden recreates the glory days of jazz in the life story or her legendary father. Teagarden divorced and married his second wife, and this marriage lasted three years before he divorced and married his third, a hotel phone operator. Mr. Teagarden was mystified by the scholarship and arcane terminology that critics brought to bear on his work.Polyphony, flatted fifths, half tones, he once said, they don't mean a thing. His father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started him on baritone horn; by age seven he had switched to trombone. When in 1951 he left Armstrong and with his wife Addie, who became business manager, formed the sextet, he had settled into the life of a responsible jazz musician and family man with Addie and Joe Teagarden, his newborn son. The trip covered a grueling eighteen weeks and as many countries. He originally planned to join Whitemans ensemble but happened to hear Ben Pollacks band first. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Trombone player Jack Teagarden, pictured in 1930, created a sensation in New York when he arrived from Texas. Jack began on piano at age group five (his mom Helen was a ragtime pianist), turned to baritone horn, and lastly used trombone when he was ten. Photo by Emily Michot / Herald Staff. Jack Teagarden played trombone with a relaxed style and a unique From 8:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT. Its a rare day when he opens his trombone case and hauls out his horn without moving a book or two on electronics or some phase of mechanics out of the way first. "The Best Trombone Player in the World", by, Red Allen, Kid Ory & Jack Teagarden at Newport, "Jack Teagarden Is Dead at 58; Jazz Trombonist and Vocalist; Some Critics Considered Him a Genius His Technique Was Largely SelfTaught", Discography of American Historical Recordings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Teagarden&oldid=1149760367, This page was last edited on 14 April 2023, at 07:56. It is a beautiful thing, and I think that anyone who responds to melody can listen to it and understand its beauty and its orginality. His recordings of I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, Texas Tea Party, A Hundred Years from Today(all 1933), Stars Fell on Alabama(1934), I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music (1936), and Nobody Knows the Trouble Ive Seen may be considered his best vocal offerings. Biography Updated April 25, 2019 - Doug Ramsey. In 1939 Teagarden formed his own band; it was musically innovative but not financially successful and was disbanded in 1947. He made his first recording in 1927 as a member of the Kentucky Grasshoppers, an offshoot of Pollacks group. Among his most famous recordings areThe Sheik of Araby, Stars Fell on AlabamaandBasin Street Blues. This is a Teagarden album like nothing else in his 40-year discography. small band for the most of his career. June 1934. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. The authors favorite Teagarden chorus (and everyone who professes a liking for jazz must have at least one favorite Teagarden chorus) is the one Jack plays on Jack Hits the Road, recorded for Columbia some twenty years ago, In it, Teagarden neatly demonstrates the things to come on his instrument. The band featured Teagarden on trombone, brother Charlie on trumpet and Frank Trumbauer on sax as The Three Ts.. Teagarden was one of the musicians on the first interracial recording session, organized by Condon. In 1947, he left the bigband business entirely, playing in ensuing years with Louis Armstrong and with groups he himself headed. Although it was not as important an influence as his trombone playing, Jack Teagardens approach to singing was also unique and influential. Jack Teagarden apparently did not like this tailgate style of trombone-playing. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, for one, calls him the finest of all jazz trombonists.. January 30, 2023 But Teagarden appears to have arrived in New York with a clear idea of how he wanted to sound, and although the three players do seem to have influenced each other somewhat, they each also retained their distinctive styles. Turned Pro as a Teen " You Couldn ' t Keep Jack Out of Harlem " Selected discography. The fact that the 56-year-old singer-musician has survived the chameleon-like disposition of the public is largely due to the tremendous impact of his personalitystrong-jawed, smiling, and graciously charming. They are 3.5mil truncated eliptical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. Relax.. Mamo, hewould sing, when the lyrics contained the word mama; fio, when they contained the word fire.. Upper register solos, the lack of a strict solo beat, and the use of lip trills were some of his characteristics. He was also a great jazz singer, charming and warm, with influences from the African American blues singers he listened to while growing up in Texas. One of the surest signs of this newfound responsibility (or perhaps only a reinstated dignity) was Teagardens tour of the Orient, under the auspices of the U. S. State Department. He was 58, the wire story said, and he had run up a lot of mileage since the year he left Texas at 15. Visiting band leader Paul Whiteman heard the group there and offered Teagarden a position in his New York orchestra. Lets go, he urged. [2] His brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became professional musicians. According to various biographies, as a boy he spent hours engrossed in the black spirituals sung at a neighborhood church, and his music would he greatly influenced by them. Teagardens gently-articulated style gives the trombone a lyrical, almost vocal quality (without having the extremely sweet ballad-type sound that, for example, Tommy Dorsey made famous) and has in fact been compared to his own (Teagardens) singing style. The trombonist, nevertheless, was still a large name (he previously fared quite nicely within the 1940 Bing Crosby film The Delivery of the Blues) and he previously many close friends. He took up the baritone horn for a time but switched to trombone when he was seven. [2], He died in New Orleans at the age of 58, suffering from pneumonia.[1]. It is too often for the jazz musician a case of a quick fling before the footlights, then oblivion. Musician Barney Bigard once told her, You were the only person he could ever talk to., Bigard, from his book on Teagarden: He drank a lot, practically all the time in fact, but he always could play and never showed that liquor He was a quite man. He was a nervous guy, never quite comfortable sitting down or standing still. He Quick Facts Full Name Jack Teagarden Died January 15, 1964, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Profession Actor, Singer, Bandleader, Trombonist Nationality American Spouse Adeline Barriere, Billie Coates, Claire Manzi, Ora Binyon Parents Charles W. Teagarden, Helen Geingar Siblings Charlie Teagarden, Norma Teagarden, Clois "Cub" Teagarden Atwell wishes she had paid closer attention to those around her. He was such an excellent musician that youthful sibling Charlie (a fantastic trumpeter) was generally overshadowed. He places placards, printed at his own expense, on tables wherever he appears as a player but not a singer. I feel that I did some good for America.. [2], Teagarden sought financial security during the Great Depression and signed an exclusive contract to play for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from 1933 through 1938. Instead, he used his lips, like a trumpet player, to form many notes. During this period, he was involved in a large number of recordings, with Pollacks orchestra, with other groups, and leading his own sessions. One source reports that Tommy Dorsey specialized in sweet ballads specifically because he felt his jazz was inferior next to Jack Teagarden and that Glenn Miller de-emphasized his own trombone playing after a stint playing beside Teagarden in Pollacks orchestra. It was the first time I became aware of segregation, she says. I dont want a coat, she wailed. 1940. His technical approach in particular was quite unorthodox. Later, searching for style and a kind of watering spa for his ideas, he drew from the blues a source of depth that makes his brand of Dixieland distinctiveand clearly divided from any other. It comes through in his playing and his singing and the way he lives. Although has received no medals in this country yet; he has achieved a place of distinction in jazz shared by very few other musicians. Saturday Review wrote in 1964 that he walked with artistic dignity all his life, and the same year Newsweek praised his mature approach to trombone jazz.. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Read Full Biography Overview Biography Discography Songs Credits Related Share on facebook twitter tumblr Credits (1-2,049 of 2,049) There have been times when Teagarden didnt need a rhythm section. by Clarence Williams Blue Five. And beyond that, Jack had been a loner ever since he blew the scene down Texas way at 15 and went out to try the taste of the world. In the Pollack band, in particular, he worked with some of the most famous jazzmen of the time, including Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman and Jimmy McPartland. His father, an amateur comet player, worked in the oilfields, and his mother was a local piano instructor and church organist. All four Teagarden children became prominent musicians. Now she wants to create a Web site and write a book about him, before all those who knew him and heard him play are gone. He It is well known, that he was rarely content to let his nights work end when the band trouped off the stand, but would always be ready for some after-hour sessions. Collier says he was the leading, and virtually the only, white male singer in jazz. Yanow lists him with Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby (who was a friend and was apparently influenced by Teagardens style) as the most important male vocalists of the early 1930s. Schuller calls him a remarkable and wholy unique singer, undoubtedly the best and only true jazz singer next to Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong (whom he, unlike dozens of others did not imitate).. He was an inventor, redesigning mouthpieces, mutes, and water valves Since much of Teagardens best work was as a sideman rather than a leader, many of his best recordings are included in collections of other artists work. Its theme was his old favorite, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues.. RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR JACK TEAGARDEN & HIS ALL STARS !!! I gotta keep moving., So we grabbed a taxi and rode over to a shoddy little cabaret. He headed back to New York, and by 1947 was playing with Louis Armstrongs All Stars, a smaller group that is considered to have been a leader in the anti- bebop traditional jazz revival movement. What he heardhelped shape his style. Such a man is Jack Teagarden, in the New Orleans vanguard when Dixieland was in its heyday, and after thirty years still its most enthusiastic and gifted exponent. Jack said, Lets get out of here. In 1938 he left Whitemans band to form his own. His tonewas unbridled, rich and raw.. And as he drove along another car hit him from the rear. As a jazz artist he won the 1944 Esquire magazine Gold Award, was highly rated in the Metronome polls of 1937-42 and 1945, and was selected for the Playboy magazine All Star Band, 1957-60. This article about a United States jazz musician is a stub. Harrison also played in the upper register of the instrument, so that he could play fast trumpet-style licks, but his playing is still firmly in the jazz brass tradition, with hard, clear articulations. In what the documentary calls one of the most important jazz recordings ever made, Teagarden and Armstrong ignored the advice of friends in 1929 and joined together to makeKnockin A Jug. Jack Teagarden. His voice, with an engaging Southern drawl, ranged somewhere between the rasp of Louis Armstrong and the smooth sound of Bing Crosby, with whom he was professionally associated from time to time. The two musical geniuses, whose mutual admiration knew no bounds, play those horns united in soul and sound. Only the very rare exceptions are universal favorites among fans of all schools. Although he never achieved commercial success, he retained his full powers until the end of his life. Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Teagarden. Mr. Teagarden was generally regarded as one of the masters of the jazz trombone. First is a delightful biographic sketch of Jack Teagarden written for the January, 1960 issue of International Musician Magazine. Louis Armstrong, himself in poor health, was so grief-stricken at Teagardens death, Atwell says, that his doctors forced him to bed and wouldnt allow him to attend the funeral. Well, I took her back to Jacks hotel and I have never, come to think of it, seen the lady since. From that moment he was the acknowledged master of his idiom. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues in particular became a signature piece for him. Through the early and mid 1920s, he played with several other territory bands, including Doc Rosss Jazz Bandits, and the Orginal Southern Trumpeters. In the 1930s he was married to and divorced from, successively, Clare Manzi of New York City and Edna Billie Coats. Jacks brother, Charlie Teagarden, played trumpet off and on in Jacks bands and did freelance work for several well-known bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, and Bob Crosby. Trains, hotels and restaurants often refused them service unless they split up. Soundtrack: Reminiscence. { So Jack sat back and ordered a second drink. Eva Taylor, Accomp. It is in the favor of jazz fans of all schools. Teagarden appeared in the movies Birth of the Blues (1941), The Glass Wall (1953), and Jazz on a Summers Day (1959). He performed with Eddie Condon, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Eddie Lang, and many others. I tried to get him on the WPA symphony where he deserved to be but the stinking little bureaucrat who directed the symphony refused to recognize the cymbalom as a civilized instrument. At sixteen Teagarden first played the trombone professionally, at a concert near San Antonio as a member of Cotton Baileys dance and jazz band. Heand Adeline or Addie, became engaged before he was divorced, and she would eventually become his forth and final wife. And they had a rule: if one side couldnt eat, then the other side didnt eat.. Well, I was hurt. Instrument: Trombone It was this background that was probably the greatest influence on all of Teagardens work, both vocal and instrumental, and his use of the blues idiom was so convincing that Fletcher Henderson apparently suspected that Teagarden was colored. She remembers one incident It must have been around 1949 or 50 and the band was playing in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, he had neither the dominant personality nor the business smarts to be a good bandleader, and by the end of that year he was already $46,000 in debt. Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden was an American jazz trombonist and singer. Also Teagarden tuned the two available pianos in the remote city of Kabul, Afghanistan, where most of the populace had never seen brass musical instruments before. We said we would like to hear the guy, and Pee Wee said, right, lets just pop over and get him. Mr. Teagarden toured the Far East for the State Department during the winter of 195859, and regarded the trip as a high point of his career. Sorry! Sometimes there would be more teens at the meetings than older people.. Hes that kind of person genuine-and unashamedly sentimental. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. Fine, we said. Jack Teagarden was a trombone player, singer, and band leader whose career spanned from the 1. Teagarden later recorded with many of Americas jazz greats including Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. It is difficult to realize that Teagarden is, after all, largely a self-taught musician. his teens, he was touring with such groups as Peck Kelly's Bad Boys. 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