With Duke Ellington: "The Okey Ellington" (Columbia)
With Count Basie: "The Essential Count Basie, Vl. With Count Basie: "Swinging the Blues" (Affinity) With Fletcher Henderson: ""Developing an American Orchestra", 1923-1937" (Smithsonian/CBS) With Fletcher Henderson: "A Study in Frustration" (CBS) With Fletcher Henderson: "Hocus Pocus" (RCA/Bluebird) With Woody Herman: "The Thundering Herds 1" (CBS) With Woody Herman: "Best of Woody Herman, 1945-7" (CBS) "The One and Only Tommy Dorsey" (RCA Special Products) With Rex Stewart: "The Essencial Keynote Collection 5, The Fabulous Ellingtonians" (Mercury) With Duke Ellington: "Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band" (RCA/Bluebird) In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.The following discography is far from definitive, but it should give the interested reader a place to start for albums that have the following trombonists featured as soloists. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. (is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). But on the bright side, his last breaths were taken in his beloved New Orleans.įo r more on vaudeville history, please see No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous. His early death at 58 robbed Teagarden of a mainstream late career comeback of the sort Louis Armstrong enjoyed, else he might enjoy more recognition outside the circle of afioconados who worship him today. In addition to his unique self-taught trombone style, he also sang in a rustic, twangy voice not unlike Hoagy Carmichael’s.
A 1963 spot on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was his last. Naturally he performed on radio, on records, and he was in over a dozen motion pictures in the ’40s and ’50s. He is known to have played the Keith Circuit, with his outfit and probably with Whiteman’s as well. Over a 40+ year career he played with just about everybody: Ben Pollack, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Bobby Hackett.
#Jack teagarden trombone solo professional
By the time he was 15 he was out on his own as a professional in San Antonio.
Jack took up trombone by age seven, performing out with his piano playing ma at local Texas nickelodeons. Teagarden came from a musical family, both parents were musicians and so were three siblings. I think I might have been introduced to this jazz legend back in the day by the late Rich Conaty on his weekly radio show. An overdue salute today to Waldo Leo “Jack” Teagarden (1905-1964), a.k.a.
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