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. In 1931, Teagardens early orchestra recorded the tune Chances Are with Fats Waller playing piano and Jack singing and playing trombone. We follow it with an insightful article written September, 1960 for Connchord Magazine. Teagardens recorded work as a trombone soloist is considered very consistently high quality, but the following are often mentioned in particular: Knockin a Jug (1929, with Louis Armstrong), Shes a Great, Great Girl (with Roger Wolfe Kahn), Makin Friends and Thats a Serious Thing (1928, with Eddie Condon), The Sheik of Araby (1930, with Red Nichols), Beale Street Blues (1931, with Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang), Jack Hits the Road (1940, with Bud Freeman), and St. And Mom had to explain to me that they werent allowed in the room because they were black. I said, Mrs. Yet, despite his technical facility and a near phenomenal originality that marks his improvisations, Jack Teagardens life was, up until 1947 when he joined Louis Armstrong, a great deal short of ideal. The musicians thought he was some kind of gag. I went to the kitchen to say hello. 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. Even at the earliest stages of his career, he exhibited an extraordinarily elastic and modern technical facility with his lips and slide. Heand Adeline or Addie, became engaged before he was divorced, and she would eventually become his forth and final wife. Atwell participated in a documentary of Teagardens life and plans to create a Web site and write a book about him. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, for one, calls him the finest of all jazz trombonists.. Atwell says she learned of her fathers death over her car radio; her mother heard it from a reporter. Los Angeles-based La Santa Cecilia is really a Latin group that pulls inspiration from all , Your email address will not be published. performed in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in the 1930s, then performed Jack Teagarden. Teagarden seems strangely uncomfortable without his trombone in hand and at least a rhythm section nearby to back him up. It was the first time I became aware of segregation, she says. Teagarden made his first trip to New York in 1926 as a performer on the eastern tour of Doc Rosss Jazz Bandits. Only the very rare exceptions are universal favorites among fans of all schools. Teagardens first vocal recording was made with Condon, and also the first recording featuring his use of a water glass as a mute. The cause of death was bronchial pneumonia, which had followed a liver ailment. She also worked with disadvantaged youth. The placards urge patrons to write their con gressman protesting the tax which has hurt the means of livelihood of many musicians and entertainers. Instead, he used his lips, like a trumpet player, to form many notes. Teagarden has appeared in movies, has sung on the air and on TV, and has recorded actually thousands of sides. During the 50s, Teagarden tried to stop drinking, and he left Armstrongs band to save his health and his marriage. Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong. Made in 1962, precisely two years before his death, it reflects much that was important about the man and musician; the uncanny precision and languorous passion of his trombone playing, the intimacy . She remembers one incident It must have been around 1949 or 50 and the band was playing in Las Vegas. So the traditional trombone stylists specialized in playing simpler accompaniment parts featuring cute special effects like glissandos. He and his mother played duets (trombone and piano) as background to the silent films at a Vemon theater. Jazz fans are noted for their fanatical devotion to one jazz movement to the exclusion of all others. The reaction to his unique style of trombone- playing appears to have been both immediate and widespread. It was a steady, well-paying job, for which Teagarden was apparently grateful; he seems to have been perpetually unlucky with both women and money, and had already experienced some personal financial problems. 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. Updated April 25, 2019 - Doug Ramsey. More recently, she founded the Progressive International Civic Association, which lowered the crime rate in her inner-city neighborhood by 40 percent in two years. Of this venture, nothing but praise-both musical and personal-rang from every port of the bands call. He tried to avoid long road trips, mostly playing clubs in Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale. He did some playing and recording with other groups at this time, most notably with his brother Charlie and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer as the Three Ts. 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. 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. with his own band. Beginning on trombone at age seven, Teagarden was entirely self-taught. Teagarden was one of the musicians on the first interracial recording session, organized by Condon. 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. First time I ever heard Jack Teagarden blow that big sliphorn was like maybe Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong. Im sorry Hes gone. Whats the big rush? Each position causes the instrument to be a slightly different length, and the instrument can play a (different) harmonic series at each length. While still in his childhood he moved to Oklahoma. He was also an outstanding jazz singer. Jack said, When I blow a big noise out of that old horn, then I feel peaceful. { He played it solo, and Im telling you he knocked us out. Trains, hotels and restaurants often refused them service unless they split up. Jack got his first big break in a strange way. 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. It was studded with many highlights. As he spoke about the elder Goldie, there was a genuine catch in his throat. Its theme was his old favorite, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues.. 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. And wherever he is now, I hope the guy from Texas has a big sliphorn to make that noise that brings him peace. He was just downing the dregs of it when the door of the dive opened and in burst a very cute little blond. In 1941, while at the St. Louis airport, he met and fell in love with a pioneer woman pilot. 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. In 1918, after his fathers death, the family moved to Chappell, Nebraska, where he and his mother again worked in the local theater. 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. something many trombonists emulated. Miller and Teagarden collaborated to provide lyrics and a verse to Spencer Williams' "Basin Street Blues", which in that amended form became one of the numbers that Teagarden played until the end of his days. He has a natural way with anything mechanical and spends a lot of time plying his tools in his home workshop. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. 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. He was the younger brother of Jack Teagarden. The masterful Teagarden was an American original whose style and vocals epitomized authenticity both in their execution and sound. Teagarden left Pollack in 1933, and signed a five-year contract with Paul Whitemans orchestra. Mr. Teagarden was christened Weldon John, but he was known to jazz fans as Jack or or Big Gate or Big T (to distinguish him from his brother, Charlie, a trumpeter, who was known as Little T). Teagarden appeared in the movies Birth of the Blues (1941), The Glass Wall (1953), and Jazz on a Summers Day (1959). Tony Weitzel, Chicago Daily News, January 17, 1964. The tax is murder, he says. Eddie got out, mad as a hornet, and the other driver said he was Jack Teagarden and he was sorry and how could he make things okay? Teagarden was married first to Ora Binyon in San Angelo, Texas, in 1923; they had two sons before they were divorced. Well, I was hurt. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Jack Teagardens playing style was lyrical and seemingly effortless. 1940. The Fort Lauderdale daughter of jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden recreates the glory days of jazz in the life story or her legendary father. Unfortunately, this band also cannot really be considered a success. Born on Aug. This is a jazz music websitespammers will be deleted. His tonewas unbridled, rich and raw.. 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. June 1934. Through the early and mid 1920s, he played with several other territory bands, including Doc Rosss Jazz Bandits, and the Orginal Southern Trumpeters. Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas, United States. Interested? Sorry! But they could not keep him from sitting on a fence near his home and listening to theNegroes singing in a church next door. His nickname was Little T. Born in Vernon, Texas, Teagarden worked locally in Oklahoma before he and Jack joined Ben Pollack's Orchestra in 1929. Mom and I sat down at a table, and when the hand was finished with their set, Dad came down and sat with us. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 15 (AP) Jack Teagarden, the jazz trombonist and singer, died today in a New Orleans motel. he is survived by his widow, Adeline; three sons; a daughter; his mother; brother Cubby, and a sister, Norma. 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. Next, a poignant obituary written by columnist Tony Weitzel for the Chicago Daily News, January 17, 1964. Teagarden is one of them. I found this short bio at Ancestry: Born in 1905 in Vernon, Texas, Jack Teagarden was an influential jazz trombonist and singer, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone." His musical abilities were largely self-taught and for that reason, unrestricted. 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. The two musical geniuses, whose mutual admiration knew no bounds, play those horns united in soul and sound. [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. In 1939, Jack port Teagarden was finally free of charge and he shortly put together a huge band that could last until 1946. It keeps me busy explaining why I cant.. Though he was extremely shy, he talked freely with her. All About Jazz musician pages are maintained by musicians, publicists and trusted members like you. Fort Lauderdale civic activist Vernajean Atwell already took part in making this documentary of her fathers life. Eddie said, Why dont you record my song? And thats what Teagarden did. After leaving Armstrong in 1951, Teagarden worked with his own This article about a United States jazz musician is a stub. Like many jazzmen of the last era, his ups and downs were of the extreme kind, and success, both financial and popular, was all too often the unwilling bedfellow of failure. 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. His style was remarkable for its effortless flow of melodic ideas, technical poise, and the tender beauty of its overall effect. For instance, Jack and crew jammed with the King of Cambodia who as clarinetist had jammed with his idol, Benny Goodman, when Benny had toured that area few years earlier. 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. 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. Jack started on piano at age five (his mother Helen was a . I asked him a couple of years ago when he was playing in Chicago if he ever felt really peaceful. His formal train- ing has been acquired on the job. His technique was almost entirely selftaught; until he was 14, his parents kept him isolated from other musicians and even from other children interested in music. 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.. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. While America struggled through the depression, Teagarden gained financial success by joining the Paul Whiteman band in 1933. He is generally considered the greatest jazz trombonist ever. He was born Weldon Leo Teagarden in 1905 in the small town of Vernon, Texas. Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden was an American jazz trombonist and singer. At various times in teagardens career, his siblings played in the same band. 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. They walked offstage and into the kitchen. He and Addie settled in California, and he formed a small band again. Desperate to keep afloat, the group played too many gigs at which they were expected to have a sweet, popular sound. He led his own band (193947), played with Louis Armstrong (194751), and re-formed his band (195157). He was buried in Los Angeles. The secret, she says, was a lot of yelling and marching and to get the neighborhoods youth involved. All rights reserved. Jack Teagarden played trombone with a relaxed style and a unique technique that still inspires awe even today. Sources " Jack Teagarden was one of those rare jazz musicians who seems to have emerged into the world whole, so completely adapted to his instrument that it sometimes appeared he and the trombone had been invented at the same time and had grown up . Eva Taylor, Accomp. His siblings also became professional musicians: his younger sister Norma played piano, his younger brother Charlie, trumpet, and his brother Clois (Cub), drums. After years of hard touring and He places placards, printed at his own expense, on tables wherever he appears as a player but not a singer. "image": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/profile/musician/e0e7e2a4dbeb66bf0ce1964893bdd.jpg", 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.. . 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 . [2] In 1946, Teagarden joined Louis Armstrong's All Stars. Even while playing with big bands, he recorded with small units led by Mr. Nichols as often as possible. 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. 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.. Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes a local jazz events calendar. His father, an amateur comet player, worked in the oilfields, and his mother was a local piano instructor and church organist. 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. Eddie Shields, the circulation driver who writes songs, phoned the minute he read about Jack. His story also epitomizes how music drilled through the racial barriers of the 40s and 50s, setting the tone for Americas integration movement. Historians and critics widely agree: No one disputes Jack Teagardens place in the trombone pantheon(Morgenstern, 2004, p.292). The trombone slide has seven positions where traditionally notated (chromatic scale) pitches can be played. Though Vernajean Atwell was a toddler at the time and Teagarden is actually her stepfather, my earliest memories are of him taking care of me. [2] In the mid-1920s he started traveling widely around the United States in a quick succession of different bands. Jack Teagarden: Think Well of Me. Mr. Teagarden was responsible, in the late twenties, for an addition to jazz folklore. He did not follow the traditional Dixieland tailgate treatment of his instrument. Jack Teagarden. 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. Jack Teagarden was a trombone player, singer, and band leader whose career spanned from the 1. Albums include Pop Music: The Early Years 1890-1950, Mis'ry and the Blues, and The Golden Years. January 30, 2023 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. He did so at a time when many jazz purists insisted that no one but a Negro could do justice to the blues. 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). Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. 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. Teagardens style is also often described using words such as lyrical, vocal, legato, relaxed, fluent and smooth. Teagarden later recorded with many of Americas jazz greats including Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. He left Armstrong and formed the Jack Teagarden All Stars Dixieland band in 1951. Although has received no medals in this country yet; he has achieved a place of distinction in jazz shared by very few other musicians. This has a practical effect on trombone playing: in the lower register of the instrument, there are fewer notes in any given position, and often only one position in which a note can be played. 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. 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. Jack spent considerable time as a youth listening to the music and the hymn singing at Negro religious meetings. What he heardhelped shape his style. Teagarden particularly made some noteworthy contributions while working at this time with Eddie Condon. Born: August 20, 1905Died: January 15, 1964. 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 teamed up with Louis Armstrongs All-Stars for some classic recordings in the late 1940s and formed the Jack Teagarden All Stars Dixieland band in 1951. While shaking his head in amazement at the creative prowess of the trombonist, Williams also delineated some of the mans superb talent. The film clip is all too brief: Louis Armstrong on trumpet and Jack Teagarden on trombone, in a dueling-banjos-style duet. Jack Teagarden made the trombone sexy, and his pliant, lazy tone made the instrument swing like a trumpet. [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". "@type": "Person", Size 10.0 Source 78 User_cleaned Bai Konte Johnson User_metadataentered Innodata User 02 User_transferred Jordan Gold He was an inventor, redesigning mouthpieces, mutes, and water valves and inventing a new musical slide rule. Genres: Swing, Vocal Jazz, Dixieland. by Clarence Williams Blue Five. Your email address will not be published. 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. He said back in May of 1939 he was driving home from NBC after plugging a song he wrote, You Know, Just As Well As I Know.. 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. All these guys were just my fathers friends, she says now. One moment, you will be redirected shortly. All four Teagarden children became prominent musicians. 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". Jack Teagarden made his first trip to New York in 1926 as a mute admiration no... 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