Jack Teagarden
USA
Born: 20 August 1905
Died: 15 January 1964
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Dixieland, Early Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Big Band, Mainstream Jazz, Bop
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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 bands (most notably with the legendary pianist Peck ...
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