Jack Teagarden Biography
Labels:
Allegro Corporation, Asl Living Era, Asv Living Era, Avid Records, Classics French, Collectables Records, Collector's Choice/hepcat, Drive Archives, Fabulous, Fresh Sounds Records/rock Bott, Good Time Jazz, Grudge, Jass Records, Jazz Classics, Jazz Oracle/city Hall
History:
One of the classic giants of jazz, Jack Teagarden was not only the top pre-bop trombonist (playing his instrument with the ease of a trumpeter) but one of the best jazz singers too. He was such a fine musician that younger brother Charlie (an excellent trumpeter) was always overshadowed. Jack started on piano at age five (his mother Helen was a ragtime pianist), switched to baritone horn, and finally took up trombone when he was ten. Teagarden worked in the Southwest in a variety of territory
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