They made a dozen or so studio recordings in 1945, plus four famous sides with Django Reinhardt as a star, but the material here comes from radio broadcasts, and I must thank the deep Miller collectors Tommy Burns and David Weiner for the music, which I have saved since 1984. The UPTOWN HALL GANG was a small group out of the overseas Glenn Miller orchestra. Now, for some relevant music from the 1947 Winter Garden broadcast - with Louis in that brief golden period when he appeared and recorded with a group of musicians we would most happily associate with Eddie Condon, to great effect: Kaiser died on Januhe was only 45.Īll of that has taken us some distance from Jack Teagarden, but I hope you found this jazz-mystery solving rewarding.
You can hear Kaiser (born Joseph) with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and, in 1946-47, with Mezz Mezzrow and Sidney Bechet for KING JAZZ recordings. who can decipher the fourth signature, quite cryptic and unfamiliar to me?And an aside: we don’t always think of Kaiser Marshall when we list Louis’ great drummers, but they were colleagues in the Fletcher Henderson band during Louis’ 1924-5 tenure, and they teamed up so very memorably for the 1929 KNOCKIN’ A JUG session - although not after that, at least in terms of recorded evidence. Did Louis, Lucille, and Jack sign this photograph at or after the concert? And. Is the number on the back significant of anything more than the developer’s index? I do not know. Was it was a candid one, created by another photographer. It does not look to me like a Gottlieb shot. The broadcast, m.c.’d by Fred Robbins, offered ‘WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS, MUSKRAT RAMBLE, DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS, SOMEDAY YOU’LL BE SORRY, and TIGER RAG.īack to the second photograph for a moment. We have even more evidence: an NBC radio broadcast of a concert at the Winter Garden on June 19, 1947, the performers being Louis and Jack, Peanuts and Caceres, Bobby Hackett, Dick Cary, Jack Lesberg, George Wettling, and Sidney Catlett. Other musicians in this band were Cecil Scott, Sandy Williams, and Henry Goodwin. Gottlieb took a good number of photographs of this concert which was to benefit the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, and you can see them at the Gottlieb holdings at the Library of Congress here. His headgear suggests that this is a candid shot from a 1947 gathering, “Jazz on the River,” that also included Art Hodes and possibly Cecil Scott - connected to the premiere of the film NEW ORLEANS at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City. And standing behind Louis is a naggingly familiar figure: the penny dropped (as my UK friends may say) - drummer Kaiser Marshall. It is heralded by the seller as “Louis Armstrong – Lucille Wilson – Jack Teagarden – RARE back signed photo – COA,” and I have no quibbles with that except that by 1942, “Lucille Wilson” had taken “Armstrong” as her surname.īut wait! There’s more! Is the partially obscured clarinetist to the left Peanuts Hucko? I believe the seated baritone saxophonist is not Ernie Caceres, but the elusive Bill Miles.
That photograph holds no mysterious half-submerged stories. I suspect that either Rosie or Tony dated the photograph at the bottom the neat printing is probably not Jack’s: Here is one link (the portrait) here is the other (the group photo).įirst, a standard publicity shot when Jack was a member of Louis’ All-Stars (and thus employed by Joe Glaser’s Associated Booking Corporation) - inscribed “To Rosie and Tony,” in peacock-blue fountain-pen ink. This little meditation on the man from Texas is motivated by two autographed photographs on eBay. Ask any trombonist how astonishing Jack’s technique is - and note I use present tense. In my local department store, a Decca anthology, THE GOLDEN HORN OF JACK TEAGARDEN, was a cherished purchase, with recordings from 1929 to 1947. JAMES INFIRMARY from Louis’ 1947 Town Hall concert and although I played that whole recording until it turned grey, that track and AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ were especially worn. Early on in my listening career I was frankly enraptured by Jack Teagarden, trombone and voice.
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