Bud Jacobson (musician)

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Orville "Bud" Jacobson (born February 22, 1903 , † April 1960 ) was an American musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet , piano ) and band leader of Chicago jazz .

Live and act

Bud Jacobson, who played a variety of instruments at the beginning of his career alongside alto saxophone and clarinet, initially joined in, led by his parents family band, then played in high school bands and local combos with which he in venues such as the Colony Club and Oak Park occurred , still under his real name Orville Jacobson. In the 1920s he worked for Russ's Melody Boys in vacation resorts before founding his first band, the White City Band , in 1924 and performing in Detroit with Art Kassel .

In the 1920s, Jacobson, stylistically influenced by Frank Teschemacher , played with numerous representatives of Chicago jazz, such as Wingy Manone , Thelma Terry (who made his first recordings for Columbia in 1928), Bud Freeman ("Crazeology", OKeh ) and Floyd Towne , in 1930 on ships on the Great Lakes with Joe Kayser , also with Frank Snyder and Frank Melrose (1935), Jimmy McPartland (1939) and as accompanist for Anita O'Day .

At the end of the 1930s Jacobson worked with his own formations, alongside with Joey Conrad, Earl Wiley , Mark Fisher and Jack Page ; In 1941 Jacobson founded the Jungle Kings , in which u. a. Frank Melrose also played. With the Jungle Kings Jacobson played a number of titles for Paramount , Signature Records and Steiner Davis Records between 1941 and 1946 , among others. a. “ Muskrat Ramble ”, “ Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? ”Or“ Nobody's Sweetheart ”, some of which remained unpublished. In the field of jazz he was involved in 13 recording sessions between 1928 and 1946. He performed in Chicago until the early 1950s before retiring in Florida.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data (ancestry)
  2. ↑ Tut Soper's Memories of Chicago in conversation with Bert Whyatt in IAJRC Journal
  3. ↑ Paul de Barros Shall We Play That One Together ?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland . 2012
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 12, 2016)
  5. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 , p. 100.
  6. Jump up ↑ Carl Rinker (cnt), Bud Jacobson (cl), Bud Hunter (cl, ts), Joe Rushton (cl, bassax), Kansas City Frank Melrose (p), Earl Wiley (dr).
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobson, Orville (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1903
DATE OF DEATH April 1960