We follow it with an insightful article written September, 1960 for Connchord Magazine. Show less, One Night Only! Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 - January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. And Jack had another drink which he poured down pronto. Jack said, When I blow a big noise out of that old horn, then I feel peaceful. That alone is well worth a chest full of medals. I got to keep moving., Finally, in the sixth successive joint, I demurred. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. 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The two premier trombonists on the New York scene when Teagarden arrived had also already rejected tailgate style playing, and there is disagreement about how much Miff Mole and Jimmy Harrison influenced Teagarden. Beginning on trombone at age seven, Teagarden was entirely self-taught. Teagarden also had a remarkable voice. Trains, hotels and restaurants often refused them service unless they split up. I feel that I did some good for America.. This is a Teagarden album like nothing else in his 40-year discography. Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Teagarden. He left Armstrong and formed the Jack Teagarden All Stars Dixieland band in 1951. JP Jazz Archive /Redferns. Structural Info Facts Pictures Filmography Known for movies 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. Brother of pianist Norma Teagarden (1911-1996); trumpeter, New and Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy, (1942 - January 15, 1964) (his death, 1 child), View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. His father, an amateur comet player, worked in the oilfields, and his mother was a local piano instructor and church organist. We said we would like to hear the guy, and Pee Wee said, right, lets just pop over and get him. The world was full of sitdown strikes and big depression and govern- ment alphabet soup. The placards urge patrons to write their con gressman protesting the tax which has hurt the means of livelihood of many musicians and entertainers. Many critics believe that Teagardens best years were over when he left Armstrong in 1951 to form his own group. January 30, 2023 He also started using Ponds Cold Cream and Pam Cooking lubricant on his trombone. 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. Louis Armstrong and his band were my second family. He stole this from the WPA and presented it to me as a token of fealty and I took it backstage at the Palace and gave it to Jack Teagarden. In addition, he was an inventor, redesigning mouthpieces, mutes, and watervalves and inventing a new musical slide rule. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Instead, he played higher in the instruments range, using mostly the first and second positions, and rarely moving beyond fourth position. Jazz critic Martin Williams recently flipped in print over a solo passage Teagarden played on a concert recording made well over ten years ago. This is a jazz music websitespammers will be deleted. The Scotch is the same in all these places., Jack sighed, You dont understand. 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. 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. Finally, a straight forward look at Jacks life as seen by The Handbook of Texas Online. Turned Pro as a Teen " You Couldn ' t Keep Jack Out of Harlem " Selected discography. His siblings also became professional musicians: his younger sister Norma played piano, his younger brother Charlie, trumpet, and his brother Clois (Cub), drums. [2], He died in New Orleans at the age of 58, suffering from pneumonia.[1]. While shaking his head in amazement at the creative prowess of the trombonist, Williams also delineated some of the mans superb talent. The trombone slide has seven positions where traditionally notated (chromatic scale) pitches can be played. The song earned $22,000, Eddie swears, and Jack wouldnt take a dime. I was having a couple of drinks With Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell one evening Pee Wee began talking about a trombone player, the greatest thing he had heard in this life. New Orleans-style trombonists tended to play in the lower range of the instrument, where it is simply impossible to change notes as quickly as a trumpet or clarinet does; entire arms cant move as fast as a single finger. Born on Aug. 29, 1905, Teagarden learned trombone by the age of 10. 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. He has played with Paul Whitemans big band, Benny Goodmans recording groups, Louis Armstrongs All Stars, Ben Pollocks band, countless groups and orchestras, many of them under his own leadership. 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. Mr. Teagarden was generally regarded as one of the masters of the jazz trombone. He briefly visited a hospital then was found dead in his room at the Prince Monti Motel in New Orleans on January 15. Although he never achieved commercial success, he retained his full powers until the end of his life. In 1933, after a brief stint in Mal Halletts band, he signed on with Paul Whitemans orchestra for five years. Teagarden later recorded with many of Americas jazz greats including Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. Teagarden proved helpful within the Southwest in a number of territory rings (especially using the renowned pianist Peck Kelley) and caused a feeling when he found NY in 1928. It is also unlike the original since it is complete in itself and not an uncompleted half of something. Jack Teagarden began playing piano at age five, took up baritone at age seven or eight, and had settled on trombone by age ten. Yet much as people like the easy-going Big T, they like even more the music that, hour after hour, pours languid, unaffected, strangely absorbed, andsometimeslonesome and full of plain earthy sadness, into a thousand city nights.. . Armstrong apparently considered Teagarden a friend, not a rival, and they continued to work together from time to time. He took up the baritone horn for a time but switched to trombone when he was seven. Although has received no medals in this country yet; he has achieved a place of distinction in jazz shared by very few other musicians. Known affectionately as Mr. It is in the favor of jazz fans of all schools. We have been all over this silly town. Among his most famous recordings areThe Sheik of Araby, Stars Fell on AlabamaandBasin Street Blues. Teagarden was the featured perfomer at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1957. Teagarden is considered by many critics to be the finest of all jazz trombonists.(Kernfeld, 1988) Teagarden single-handedly created a whole new way of playing the trombone " a parallel to Earl Hines and the piano comes to mind " and did so as early as the mid-twenties and evidently largely out of his own youthful creative resources.". He sang like he played, one observer said, in a smooth, sleepy Texas drawl. All four Teagarden children became prominent musicians. And Jack was blowing his big horn around a shattered segment of the old Keith vaudeville circuit. His formal train- ing has been acquired on the job. In 1938 he left Whitemans band to form his own. James Infirmary, and W. C. Handy's Beale Street Blues. But like most blues singers, he was capable also of improvising a lyric if the moment was right. 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. Fort Lauderdale civic activist Vernajean Atwell already took part in making this documentary of her fathers life. 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. Playing under adverse conditions of weather and health. Musical Family. He was such an excellent musician that youthful sibling Charlie (a fantastic trumpeter) was generally overshadowed. All these guys were just my fathers friends, she says now. In the 1930s he was married to and divorced from, successively, Clare Manzi of New York City and Edna Billie Coats. But they could not keep him from sitting on a fence near his home and listening to theNegroes singing in a church next door. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. - Jack Sohmer. RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR JACK TEAGARDEN & HIS ALL STARS !!! 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. In 1939, Jack port Teagarden was finally free of charge and he shortly put together a huge band that could last until 1946. His unusual approach to trombone playing had both a technical and a stylistic component. Teagarden appeared in the movies Birth of the Blues (1941), The Glass Wall (1953), and Jazz on a Summers Day (1959). His style remained the same, even though more and more seams crossed his round, open face. She also worked with disadvantaged youth. He made his first recording in 1927 as a member of the Kentucky Grasshoppers, an offshoot of Pollacks group. 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. Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes a local jazz events calendar. The notes in any harmonic series are much closer together in the upper part of the series. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Though he was extremely shy, he talked freely with her. He was such a fine musician that younger brother Charlie (an excellent trumpeter) was always overshadowed. The cause of death was bronchial pneumonia, which had followed a liver ailment. T. documented frequently numerous groups including systems going by Roger Wolfe Kahn, Eddie Condon, Crimson Nichols, and Louis Armstrong (Knockin a Jug). Teagarden became the first white musician to travel on the road with an all-black band. He had been playing baritone and trombone for nine years in his school band when at age 16 he walked into the club where Peck Kelley, the pianist, was rehearsing his band. Jack. 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. 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 had 14 side men in his band and the band fronted a stage show you could get in to see for 85 cents if you had 85 cents, which not many people did. Even at the earliest stages of his career, he exhibited an extraordinarily elastic and modern technical facility with his lips and slide. It really avoided him from leading what would ultimately became the Bob Crosby Orchestra. I dont want a coat, she wailed. In 1941, while at the St. Louis airport, he met and fell in love with a pioneer woman pilot. Teagarden? She nodded. For several years, however, Jack continued to play with local groups. Teagarden, who was simply greatly adored by Tommy Dorsey, is a reasonable candidate for popularity in the golf swing period but he produced a strategic mistake. Using alternate positions and an embouchure that was apparently extremely flexible (meaning he could change the pitch of a note using only small changes in his lips, mouth, and face muscles), Teagarden could play in the way that appealed to him. Teagarden seems strangely uncomfortable without his trombone in hand and at least a rhythm section nearby to back him up. She remembers one incident It must have been around 1949 or 50 and the band was playing in Las Vegas. Required fields are marked *. Instrument: Trombone Teagarden was one of the musicians on the first interracial recording session, organized by Condon. These days, he leads his own combo, one he has traveled successfully with to the Far East for the U.S. State Department. His mother was a piano teacher, and Teagarden began playing piano by the age of 5, the baritone horn by 7, and the trombone by 10. admin Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Jack Teagarden Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 - January 15, 1964), known as "Big T" and "The Swingin' Gate", was an American jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone". The masterful Teagarden was an American original whose style and vocals epitomized authenticity both in their execution and sound. Sorry! with his own band. I went to the kitchen to say hello. Teagarden divorced and married his second wife, and this marriage lasted three years before he divorced and married his third, a hotel phone operator. The musicians thought he was some kind of gag. His health grew worse and he suffered recurring bouts of flu and pneumonia. As mentioned above, by the summer of 1928, Teagarden was playing with Ben Pollacks orchestra, and he stayed with Pollack, performing and recording, for nearly five years. A bulky, sadfaced man with a husky baritone voice, Mr. Teagarden was one of the few musicians whose work aroused enthusiasm among all the splinter groups in contemporary jazz. 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. Looks like we don't have trademarks information. The tune is one that we all know well (which is a help, of course, and one that Teagarden assumes), and, for his part of the performance, Jack gets just the first half of the length of tune, right after Armstrongs vocal course. Photo by Emily Michot / Herald Staff. With abuse heaped upon him, Teagarden became the first white musician to travel on the road with an all-black band. The secret, she says, was a lot of yelling and marching and to get the neighborhoods youth involved. Of this venture, nothing but praise-both musical and personal-rang from every port of the bands call. Both have since died. With his sextet, he covered a circuit extending from Hong Kong to Okinawa with concerts in Bombay, Colombo (Ceylon), Tokyo, and Karachi (Pakistan). blues singers he listened to while growing up in Texas. I have run into Jack from time to time, because he never did stop blowing that big sliphorn and he never did stop going to night clubs. Jack Teagarden made the trombone sexy, and his pliant, lazy tone made the instrument swing like a trumpet. Its the closest thing in print to hearing Teagarden play. His former wife had taken all the spirit out of him when she sued for divorce and got custody of the restaurant which supported him and his cymbalom. His movies included Birth of the Blues (1941). Trombonist, singer. 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. The little blond trudged wearily over to the table and sat down. 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. Isham Jones and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Eddie Stone. Jack spent considerable time as a youth listening to the music and the hymn singing at Negro religious meetings. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues in particular became a signature piece for him. So Jack sat back and ordered a second drink. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The tax is murder, he says. They belong to him not because he had a hand in writing them (he didnt) but because he pops in mind as the singer whenever these tunes are brought to mind. What mattered was that Hack was a guy dedicated to the sound a hard-lipped genius can get out of a sliphorn. Pee Wee introduced us. The siege of troubled yearsthe mid-thirties through the late fortiesTeagarden spent as an itinerant jazzman, reckless, unsettled, always on the lookout for a place to blow his horn. The band featured Teagarden on trombone, brother Charlie on trumpet and Frank Trumbauer on sax as The Three Ts.. Jack Teagarden played trombone with a relaxed style and a unique He was a nervous guy, never quite comfortable sitting down or standing still. Even while playing with big bands, he recorded with small units led by Mr. Nichols as often as possible. 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. "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. In New York, Teagarden became enthralled by Harlems black nightclubs, where he was often invited to join late-night jam sessions. Jack Teagarden discography and songs: Music profile for Jack Teagarden, born 20 August 1905. Anyone can read what you share. Atwell participated in a documentary of Teagardens life and plans to create a Web site and write a book about him. From 8:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT. While America struggled through the depression, Teagarden gained financial success by joining the Paul Whiteman band in 1933. Teagarden made his first trip to New York in 1926 as a performer on the eastern tour of Doc Rosss Jazz Bandits. In the upper register, notes in any position are closer together, and many notes can be played in more than one position. Its a relatively simple blues chorus, but is constructed nimbly and, for the time, is pretty far out. In segregated America, their friends feared it would damage the two mens careers. But the Whiteman group was not particularly musically inspired. and inventing a new musical slide rule. He is the only father I ever knew, I adored him., Her favorite times were early morning coffees when only she and her dad were up. So the traditional trombone stylists specialized in playing simpler accompaniment parts featuring cute special effects like glissandos. He was born Weldon Leo Teagarden in 1905 in the small town of Vernon, Texas. Teagardens first vocal recording was made with Condon, and also the first recording featuring his use of a water glass as a mute. Armstrong's "All-Stars", and Louis Armstrong considered him to be his He went, it appears, to superhuman lengths to live up to what he has stated to nearly interviewer: I try to play what people like. Generally, what people seem to like is Teagarden. 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. 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. [2] According to critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s and "one of the best jazz singers too". Stars Fell on Alabama - Jack Teagarden's Chicagoans;Jack Teagarden;Billy May;Joe Sullivan;Heinie Beau;Dave Matthews;Dave Barbour;Art Shapiro;Zutty Single;Parish;Perkins Notes Technical Notes: Dupe of GBIA0069802N ,but previously transferred as wrong sides; Pops and clicks Fort Lauderdale civic activist Vernajean Atwell, stepdaughter of noted trombonist Jack Teagarden plays with her adopted dogs. Traveling with Teagardens band, with her mother as band manager, Atwell remembers 21 straight days of one-night stands, playing in three states in one week, driving as much as 300 miles to play the next nights engagement. 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. His singing is wry and gutty, and, again, has a naturally lazy sound. As I said, the big depression was on, and I had just wangled a cozy WPA job for the best cymbalom player I ever heard. "@context": "https://schema.org", The Texas town in which Teagarden grew up had a large black population, and he must have heard spirituals, work songs, and blues from a very early age; in fact, revivals were commonly held within earshot of his home. Weldon Leo " Jack " Teagarden (August 20, 1905 - January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. Lets go, he urged. One of the classic giants of jazz, Jack Teagarden was not only the top pre-bop trombonist (playing his instrument with the ease of a trumpeter) but one of the best jazz singers too. 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. Teagarden was buried in California. Sometimes there would be more teens at the meetings than older people.. First time I ever heard Jack Teagarden blow that big sliphorn was like maybe Mom and I sat down at a table, and when the hand was finished with their set, Dad came down and sat with us. The Teagarden brothers (Jack and trumpeter Charlie) are generally considered the only interesting jazzmen to have been part of it, and yet Jack also felt a little out of the limelight. Although he once sang a blues line that testified he was born in Texas and raised in Tennessee. Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas, United States. Atwell, divorced and mother of four children, moved from California to join them. 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. He places placards, printed at his own expense, on tables wherever he appears as a player but not a singer. His daring solos with Ben Pollack triggered Glenn Miller to de-emphasize his very own using the music group, and through the past due-20s/early Depression period, Mr. Visiting band leader Paul Whiteman heard the group there and offered Teagarden a position in his New York orchestra. He was also among the first white jazz musicians to record with black players. It is for that kind of lyric and melodic beauty that we should listen to Jack Teagarden, because such are the standards he has set for himself. This article about a United States jazz musician is a stub. I asked, Do your really want a fur coat that much?, She stared and then she laughed bitterly. Eddie Shields, the circulation driver who writes songs, phoned the minute he read about Jack. This All Stars group, a sextet along the same lines as Armstrongs All Stars, with various musicians including at times Earl Hines, Teagardens brother Charlie on trumpet and his sister Norma on piano, was also a success, touring both Europe and Asia and playing traditional jazz in a way that made it sound fresh and creative. but Norma, a pianist, and Cubby, a drummer, have retired. Born on Aug. 29, 1905, Teagarden learned trombone by the age of 10. Jack said, Meet me after the last show in the cafe next door and we will go see the town. So I sat around until Jack and the boys earned their money and along about 11:15p.m. 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. 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