Chauncey Morehouse

Because practically most of his most crucial jazz work was made in the 1920s, it really is surprising to understand that Chauncey Morehouse was dynamic like a drummer in to the early 1970s. He was raised in Chambersburg, PA, and started playing drums in early stages; he also caused his college orchestra and along with his dad, who performed piano for silent movies. Morehouse, who led the Versatile Five while in senior high school in 1919, found important experience using Paul Specht from 1922-24, producing recordings and going to London with Specht in 1923. Probably one of the most theoretically skilled drummers from the 1920s, Morehouse was an associate of Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra from 1925-27, was using the short-lived and famous Adrian Rollini music group in 1927 (with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer) and performed frequently with Don Voorhees from 1928-29. Through the 1925-29 period, Morehouse made an appearance on many jazz information including with Goldkette, Trumbauer, Bix and his Gang, Crimson Nichols, the Dorsey Brothers and Joe Venuti, amongst others. In 1929 he became a studio room percussionist and through the following 40 years he proved helpful mainly in the studios, on radio and afterwards in tv. He steadily modernized his design and led a unique music group in 1938 where he performed chromatically tuned percussion that he previously designed; Stan Ruler helped him from drums. But Morehouse mainly was beyond jazz before 1970s, when he retired in the studios and sometimes made an appearance at jazz celebrations. By then, he previously been long ignored in the jazz globe by basically 1920s collectors. Being a head, Morehouse led three Dixieland-oriented game titles in 1937 plus four quantities in 1938 using a 14-piece music group that demonstrated off his percussion function.