Jack Teagarden began playing piano at age five, took up baritone at age seven or eight, and had settled on trombone by age ten. For several years, however, Jack continued to play with local groups. Mamo, hewould sing, when the lyrics contained the word mama; fio, when they contained the word fire.. His movies included Birth of the Blues (1941). 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. Teagarden was the featured perfomer at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1957. Charlie Teagarden (July 19, 1913 - December 10, 1984), known as 'Smokey Joe', was an American jazz trumpeter. This is a Teagarden album like nothing else in his 40-year discography. Born Weldon Lee Teagarden or Weldon John Teagarden (more sources say Weldon Lee, but John makes more sense considering his nickname), Jacks earliest performances were working with his mother Helen, who played ragtime piano, in theaters. Atwell was only a child then, traveling with the band when she could. By 1928 he played for the Ben Pollack band. Updated April 25, 2019 - Doug Ramsey. It really avoided him from leading what would ultimately became the Bob Crosby Orchestra. Teagarden was also a respected jazz singer and developed his own blues vocal style. She remembers one incident It must have been around 1949 or 50 and the band was playing in Las Vegas. The little blond trudged wearily over to the table and sat down. Sorry! He See also His tombstone reads simply, Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Courtesy of the Miami Herald, e-mail:sreisinger@herald.com Jacks fluency on the trombone has continued to amaze everyone. Teagarden appeared in the movies Birth of the Blues (1941), The Glass Wall (1953), and Jazz on a Summers Day (1959). The world was full of sitdown strikes and big depression and govern- ment alphabet soup. In 1918, after his fathers death, the family moved to Chappell, Nebraska, where he and his mother again worked in the local theater. Jack Teagarden Is Dead at 58; Jazz Trombonist and Vocalist; Some Critics Considered Him a Genius His Technique Was Largely SelfTaught, https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/16/archives/jack-teagarden-is-dead-at-58-jazz-trombonist-and-vocalist-some.html. It apparently also greatly appealed to other musicians as soon as they heard it, but it relied so heavily on using unusual slide positions and on his ability to bend notes with his unusually flexible embouchure, that his style is generally considered to be literally inimitable.. During the next 12 years Mr. Teagarden played with bands headed by Ben Pollack, Mal Hallet and Paul Whiteman. Fort Lauderdale civic activist Vernajean Atwell already took part in making this documentary of her fathers life. They are 3.5mil truncated eliptical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. Beginning on trombone at age seven, Teagarden was entirely self-taught. Both have since died. 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. His first public performances were in movie theaters, where he accompanied his mother, a pianist. Having grown up in an area with a large black population, Teagarden developed an early appreciation of black music, especially the blues and gospel He was one of the first jazz musicians to incorporate blue notes into his playing. [2], He died in New Orleans at the age of 58, suffering from pneumonia.[1]. Theres a sentimental streak in Teagarden that immediately warms an audience, whether it is made apparent in a song or a gracious act onstage, or even an introduction. Your email address will not be published. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues in particular became a signature piece for him. Size 10.0 Source 78 User_cleaned Bai Konte Johnson User_metadataentered Innodata User 02 User_transferred Jordan Gold singer, charming and warm, with influences from the African American Mr. Teagarden was generally regarded as one of the masters of the jazz trombone. Its theme was his old favorite, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues.. The placards urge patrons to write their con gressman protesting the tax which has hurt the means of livelihood of many musicians and entertainers. Although Whitemans Orchestra do feature Teagarden occasionally (and he previously a limited period in 1936 using a little group in the music group, the Three Ts, along with his sibling Charlie and Frankie Trumbauer), the agreement effectively held Teagarden from venturing out by himself and learning to be a star. Jack started on piano at age five (his mother Helen was a . "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. 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. 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. Jack Teagarden. He RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR JACK TEAGARDEN & HIS ALL STARS !!! First time I ever heard Jack Teagarden blow that big sliphorn was like maybe 29, 1905, Teagarden learned trombone by the age of 10. He was identified with such tunes as I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, St. His is an open face, with character, rather than age or weariness or boredom etched into it. He moved to Chappell, Nebraska, with his family in 1918, but by 1921 was back in Texas playing with Peck Kelleys Bad Boys. 1936. The All Stars toured Europe and Asia in 1957-59 as part of a government-sponsored goodwill tour. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Eddie Condon. Jack Teagarden was the top jazz trombonist to emerge before World War II. 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. June 1934. Soundtrack: Reminiscence. 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. 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. Born in Vernon, Texas, on Aug. 20, 1905, he started on the trombone at the age of 7. An honest kind of artistry, Teagardens tromboning is generally credited with having advanced the instrument to the high level of technical achievement it enjoys among todays modern musicians, and, at the same time, has stated a case for the lyrical quality in jazz for the nearly forty years he has been playing professionally. I wanted to know how all those people could come to see this wonderful talent and then not want to sit in the same room with them.. Although he once sang a blues line that testified he was born in Texas and raised in Tennessee. 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. His father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started him on baritone horn; by age seven he had switched to trombone. Sometimes there would be more teens at the meetings than older people.. His style remained the same, even though more and more seams crossed his round, open face. T, Big T (to brother Charlies Little T), Jackson, Gate, and Big Gate (again, Charlie was Little Gate), Jack Teagarden was by all accounts a big, easy- going, friendly man, well-liked throughout his career by his fellow musicians. Anyone can read what you share. "image": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/profile/musician/e0e7e2a4dbeb66bf0ce1964893bdd.jpg", The musicians thought he was some kind of gag. And although his playing style was also technically brilliant, featuring difficult techniques such as lip trills, his laid-back, vocal style of delivery " often described even as a lazy sound " effectively disguised his technical proficiency (lazy and lightning-quick(. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Armstrong apparently considered Teagarden a friend, not a rival, and they continued to work together from time to time. Atwell and her younger brother, Joe, have hired an attorney to try to claim the rights to, and royalties from, all the dozens and dozens of recordings of their father, plus recorded radio broadcasts and six films he made. 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. JP Jazz Archive /Redferns. All four Teagarden children became prominent musicians. During the recent Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago, Teagarden and his gang came into town a couple of days early to help out on promotion for the event (by appearing on TV shows, radio interviews, and even a race track where he blew the call to the post), and to spend some time with many of his old friends who were playing in Chicagos jazz spots, music his element. January 30, 2023 His health grew worse and he suffered recurring bouts of flu and pneumonia. He did not follow the traditional Dixieland tailgate treatment of his instrument. 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).. Read Full Biography Overview Biography Discography Songs Credits Related Share on facebook twitter tumblr Credits (1-2,049 of 2,049) He did so at a time when many jazz purists insisted that no one but a Negro could do justice to the blues. Jack was given piano lessons when he reached the age of five. Tony Weitzel, Chicago Daily News, January 17, 1964. So my Hungarian friend went on the book-binding project but he toted his cymbalom along and the book bindery became the most melodious WPA project that never got off the ground. We include several articles here that nicely sum up the life of Jack Teagarden. Relax.. Photo by Emily Michot / Herald Staff. In 1927, he went to New York City where he worked with several bands. he is survived by his widow, Adeline; three sons; a daughter; his mother; brother Cubby, and a sister, Norma. Heand Adeline or Addie, became engaged before he was divorced, and she would eventually become his forth and final wife. In 1939 Teagarden formed his own band; it was musically innovative but not financially successful and was disbanded in 1947. But Whitemans group kept him a little too busy doing highly- arranged popular music, and he left when his contract was up. The Scotch is the same in all these places., Jack sighed, You dont understand. 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 really blew it. Teagarden was born in 1905 in Vernon, Texas. About 1923 he briefly attempted to enter the oilfield business in Wichita Falls but soon gave up the venture and returned to music. drinking, he died of a heart attack in New Orleans in 1964. The song earned $22,000, Eddie swears, and Jack wouldnt take a dime. Its the closest thing in print to hearing Teagarden play. He was an inventor, redesigning mouthpieces, mutes, and water valves 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. He performed with Eddie Condon, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Eddie Lang, and many others. At this point, he was also the grand old man of the instrument, well-respected both by traditionalists and (unlike many other traditionalist players) also by the more modern generation of trombonists. Albums include Pop Music: The Early Years 1890-1950, Mis'ry and the Blues, and The Golden Years. 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. I asked him a couple of years ago when he was playing in Chicago if he ever felt really peaceful. In 1964, while playing the Dream Room in New Orleans, he succumbed to pneumonia, brought on by a lifetime of too much booze, too many cigarettes and too many one-night stands. Although gifted with an amazing technical virtuosity, the curiously mixed scale of feeling Teagarden draws from his horn has its origin in this childhood heritage. The world of jazz, like any part of show business, suffers as much from public fickleness as does, say, the bumbling lyrics of a Presley or Fabian (although one approaches art, the other embraces the soul of rockn roll). And when he placed his arm around the younger Goldies shoulder, there was genuine affection in the embrace. [2] In the mid-1920s he started traveling widely around the United States in a quick succession of different bands. He was Jack Teagarden, from Texas, and looked it. 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. They walked offstage and into the kitchen. 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. Born in Vernon, TX in 1905, trombonist and singer John Weldon "Jack" Teagarden was the most accomplished and ultimately best-known member of a very musical family. "@type": "Person", The reaction to his unique style of trombone- playing appears to have been both immediate and widespread. After departing Armstrong, Teagarden was a head of a progressively working sextet through the entire remainder of his profession, playing Dixieland with such talented music artists as sibling Charlie, trumpeters Jimmy McPartland, Don Goldie, Potential Kaminsky, and (throughout a 1957 Western european tour) pianist Earl Hines. 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. Many of his best records were made with Red Nichols. Tonight she blew into town and she is gonna haunt me until I come up with a mink!, I said, Jack, nobody could catch up to us now. My cymbalom player was truly a fine artist but he did not protest his ignoble reduction to book binding. And wherever he is now, I hope the guy from Texas has a big sliphorn to make that noise that brings him peace. In 1961 he and Addie bought a house on the Intracoastal Waterway in Pompano Beach, where they lived with son, Joe. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 15 (AP) Jack Teagarden, the jazz trombonist and singer, died today in a New Orleans motel. Genres: Swing, Vocal Jazz, Dixieland. Looks like we don't have trademarks information. Born: August 20, 1905Died: January 15, 1964. Was a member of "Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars.". A short digression into the mechanics of trombone playing will explain why. Although has received no medals in this country yet; he has achieved a place of distinction in jazz shared by very few other musicians. If I Could Be with You (One Hour To-night) Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra. The tax is murder, he says. Teagarden later recorded with many of Americas jazz greats including Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. 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. 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. 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. Early in 1964 Teagarden cut short a performance in New Orleans because of ill health. The group traveled to Europe in the postwar achieving great success. 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. In 1941, while at the St. Louis airport, he met and fell in love with a pioneer woman pilot. 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