Dick McPartland

A relatively minor body, Dick McPartland (the older sibling of Jimmy McPartland) was an early on person in the Austin SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Gang that helped establish Chicago jazz in the 1920s. McPartland began in the violin before switching to banjo and electric guitar. He mostly performed in Chicago through the ’20s including with Crimson McKenzie, where he was Eddie Lang’s substitute; he documented with Irving Mills in 1928 and Jack port Teagarden in 1929. Dick’s tempo electric guitar can be noticed on periods led by Jimmy in 1936 and 1939. However an early coronary attack compelled Dick to retire from full-time music by his early ’30s. Afterwards, he was a cab drivers, only showing up at an intermittent concert, including in 1955 when he performed his last gig. He hardly ever led his very own record date.