Tommy Douglas

b. 9 January 1906, Eskridge, Kansas, USA, d. 9 March 1965, Swiss Falls, South Dakota, USA. Douglas trained himself clarinet and saxophone while at college in Topeka, before their studies at the Boston Conservatory from 1924-28. While there he was friendly using the band of Boston players who have been to create the core from the Duke Ellington saxophone section – Johnny Hodges, Otto ‘Toby’ Hardwicke and Harry Carney. He caused a number of bands within the southern and midwest through the entire 30s and 40s, but resolved in Kansas Town. He caused Jelly Move Morton in Chicago in 1933 and later on with Bennie Moten. He also performed briefly with Ellington in 1951 but generally led his personal bands. His industrial records usually do not reveal what those that heard him explain as his even more flowing, modern design. Certainly he was using a number of the gadgets of contemporary jazz (such as for example expanded chords and dual period) in his very own music as soon as 1935 and he might experienced some impact on Charlie Parker, who used his septet in 1936 at age 16.