Peck Kelly

b. John Dickson Kelley, 22 Oct 1898, Houston, Tx, USA, d. 26 Dec 1980, Houston, Tx, USA. In the first 20s pianist Kelley led a music group, Peck’s Bad Guys, which featured many excellent musicians who had been then starting their professions. They included Jack port Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell. Although he produced occasional travels to Midwestern metropolitan areas and to New Orleans, Kelley focused his profession on his city. He resisted presents to join essential bands such as for example those of Paul Whiteman and both Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey, and continuing playing in self-imposed obscurity. His popularity among fellow music artists was high, but his initial formal recordings weren’t produced until he was nearly 60 and partly blind. Even enabling the ravages of your time and wellness, these information support the watch that in his leading he will need to have been a formidable skill. Further evidence surfaced with the discharge, after his loss of life, of an record containing previously recordings. Home-made and with some reminiscing by Kelley, but with amazing bursts of bravura piano-playing, each goes quite a distance to proving that period, at least, the story was correct. Kelley ultimately became totally blind and passed away in Dec 1980, in the obscurity he previously wanted during his life time.