Jack Teagarden - St. James Infirmary

Jack Teagarden - And His All Stars - St. James Infirmary

Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905--January 15, 1964), known as "Big T" and "The Swingin' Gate", was an influential jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone".
Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-Bebop era, and did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the old tailgate style role of the early New Orleans brass bands. Chief among his contributions to the language of jazz trombonists was his ability to interject the blues or merely a "blue feeling" into virtually any piece of music.
"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. "I sometimes think people like Jack were just go-betweens," Bobby Hackett told a friend. "The Good Lord said, 'Now you go and show 'em what it is', and he did. I think everybody familiar with Jack Teagarden knows that he was something that happens just once. It won't happen again. Not that way..."

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[ErnieHollerhagen]

His embouchure and attaca were just incredible. When I was young, I tried for years to copy him. In vain, of course.

[luddoo0]

love it!!!

[123must]

Beautiful !

Thanks

[Toomnyusernae]

Anyone watch Metropolis (anime) before? I think this song or one very similar is in it ;p

[TheNeverendingfire]

my grand father was a master on trombone, well known in The toronto jazz scene and Jack Teagarden was his ultimate favorite. I have to agree on that he's unbeatable!

[JonTigert]

this is effing beautiful