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Jack Teagarden - Blue River, 1933

Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra, voc. Jack Teagarden - Blue River (Joseph Meyer & Alfred Bryan), Brunswick (mx 14295-A) (6741) ca 1933 NOTE: In the years 1933 and 1941 Jack Teagarden had made two excellent recordings of the famous tune. Here is the earlier one, that in my opinion is an ultimate masterpiece. In YT can be found also the later version, recorded for Decca in 1941. Jack TEAGAEDEN - born on August 20, 1905 in Vernon, Texas, was one of the classic giants of jazz: not only the top pre-bop trombonist but one of the best jazz singers too. His mother Helen was a ragtime pianist. Jack started on piano at age five, then switched to baritone horn, and finally took up trombone when he was ten. Teagarden worked in the Southwest in a variety of territory bands and then caused a sensation when he came to New York in 1928. His solos with Ben Pollack caused Glenn Miller to de-emphasize his own playing with the band, and during the late-'20s/early Depression era, "Mr. T." recorded frequently with many groups including units headed by Roger Wolfe Kahn, Eddie Condon, Red Nichols, and Louis Armstrong . His versions of "Basin Street Blues" and "Beale Street Blues" (songs that would remain in his repertoire for the remainder of his career) were definitive. Teagarden, who was greatly admired by Tommy Dorsey, would have been a logical candidate for fame in the swing era but he made a strategic error. In late 1933, looking for a financial security during The Great Depression , he signed an exclusive contract to play for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from 1933 through 1938. Although Whiteman's Orchestra did feature Teagarden now and then, the contract kept Teagarden from playing an active part in the musical advances of the mid-thirties and becoming a star. Jack Teagarden died, alone, of a heart attack complicated by bronchial pneumonia in his room at the Prince Conti Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans on January 15, 1964. He was only 58.