Joe Yukl

In the event that you loved Jimmy Stewart’s faked trombone taking part in in the 1953 film The Glenn Miller Story, you have Joe Yukl to thank; he coached Stewart in the artwork of trombone technique and performed a number of the solos in the film. Yukl had an extended profession playing in Hollywood studio room bands from your late ’30s before past due ’60s, but before that he used a number of the even more prominent jazz music artists of his day time, including Crimson Nichols, Frankie Trumbauer, Ben Pollack, as well as the Dorsey Brothers. Yukl’s 1st device was violin, trained to him by his dad. He began focusing on trombone while students at Maryland University or college. He used the Maryland Collegians from 1926 and spent time in Ottawa, Canada. He relocated to NY in 1927 on the recommendation of Tommy Dorsey and used Crimson Nichols, Roger Kahn Wolfe, and Fred Rich’s CBS Orchestra. A 1929 appendectomy laid him up and he transferred back again to Maryland. After his recovery, he performed mainly around Baltimore for another 2 yrs. In 1933, he used Joe Haymes for the couple of months before shifting towards the Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra. The brothers break up in 1935 and Jimmy visited California; Yukl proceeded to go with him. He remained with younger Dorsey’s music group until 1937. More than the next couple of years he’d also function Trumbauer, Pollack, Ray McKinley, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Ted Fio Rito. He ultimately found the majority of his function in the studios, but continuing to try out jazz with Wingy Manone, Charlie LaVere, while others. He documented prolifically like a freelance musician, and made an appearance in the 1951 film Tempo Inn.