Arthur Schutt

A significant pianist through the 1920s, appearing about many essential recordings, Arthur Schutt died out from the spotlight through the golf swing period. He was trained piano by his dad and began playing for silent films when he was simply 13 in 1915. It had been at a cinema that Schutt was found out in 1918 by bandleader Paul Specht, who quickly employed him. Schutt was with Specht for six years (including a trip to London in 1923). From then on period finished, Schutt worked well for Roger Wolfe Khan and Don Voorhees, and became a occupied studio room musician, showing up on many jazz-influenced times going by Fred High, Nat Shilkret, while others. A significant novelty ragtime pianist (documenting eight piano solos in 1923, 1928, and 1929), Schutt caused the Georgians (the tiny group removed from Paul Specht’s Orchestra) during 1922-1924, and documented using the Charleston Chasers, Crimson Nichols (1926-1929 and 1931), the Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (1928-1931), Benny Goodman, & most considerably with Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke in 1927. Schutt’s uncommon chord voicings and percussive solos had been a standout through the period, although they finished up not really becoming everything that influential. He going organizations for 18 choices that were documented during 1929-1930, and remained occupied in the studios like a sideman (slicing two last piano solos in 1934). From then on period, Schutt taken care of a lesser profile, sometimes leading his personal music group and, in 1939, playing for some time with Bud Freeman. In the ’40s and ’50s, Schutt worked well in Hollywood like a studio room musician, forgotten from the jazz globe except by enthusiasts of ’20s information who probably didn’t recognize that he was still energetic.