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Not to end up being confused with vaudeville’s Whispering Jack port Smith nor with ’60s British pop entity Whistling Jack port Smith, popular vocalist, professional, MC, and radio and tv personality Jack port Smith was also called Smilin’ Jack port Smith. On November 16, 1916, Jack port Ward Smith was …

Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé was created into a music family members. His maternal grandfather, Bernard Bierlich, was first-desk cellist using the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His mom was also a cellist, his dad a singing acting professional, so when grandfather Bierlich shifted to LA, he became 1st cellist from the LA …

Albert Glasser was once described on Secret Science Theatre 3000 while “the person who keeps you straight down and pummels you with music.” The declaration may be a little unfair to the person, nonetheless it can explain the tone of several from the best-known films that he obtained. Glasser specialized …

The orchestra of Gus Arnheim released or helped made many a performer’s career, most well-known included in this Bing Crosby, who got an enormous push in the music business when Crosby’s sophomore outfit referred to as the Rhythm Boys cut a small number of sides using the Arnheim Music group. …

Arthur Pryor was arguably America’s most significant non-jazz trombonist of the first 20th century; in addition, he was revered through the acoustical documenting period for his abilities as both a bandleader/conductor and a composer. Pryor, whose affects ranged from ragtime to Western classical (specifically waltzes) to 19th hundred years pop, …

For an interval in the 1920s, Miff Mole was (before the introduction of Jack Teagarden) the innovative trombonist in jazz. He previously gained a solid reputation using the initial Memphis Five (beginning in 1922) and his many recordings with Crimson Nichols during 1926-1927 discovered him taking uncommon period jumps with …

An influential drummer who was simply most widely known for helping main performers, Jesse Cost appeared in lots of settings over time. He started playing drums when he was 14, freelancing in Memphis, playing in the pit orchestra from the Palace Theater in his hometown and associated blues performers. After …

When he was 12, Don Neely bought a Victrola and started an archive collection. He was attracted to the jazz/dance music group noises and Tin Skillet Alley songs from the 1920s. While in university, he previously his very own traditional jazz music group. After that, in 1975, he found a …

Because press agents dubbed him “The King of Jazz” within the 1920s, Paul Whiteman is definitely considered a questionable shape in jazz history. In fact, his orchestra was typically the most popular during the period and sometimes (despite its size) it do play excellent jazz; maybe “King from the Jazz …

At one stage in the later ’20s, Reuben Reeves was one of the most exciting trumpeters in jazz, although his superstar shortly faded. After playing locally within the Midwest, he transferred to NY in 1924. The next calendar year, Reeves relocated to Chicago, and in 1926 he joined up with …