Danny Polo

Danny Polo (born December 22, 1901 in Clinton , Indiana , † July 11, 1949 in Chicago ) was an American swing clarinetist and saxophonist (alto and tenor saxophone) .

Live and act

Polo became a clarinetist on the model of his father; at the age of eight he played in marching bands . In his youth he played in a duo with Claude Thornhill ; In the 1920s Danny Polo worked for Elmer Schoebel (1923), Merritt Brunies , Arnold Johnson , Ben Bernie , Jean Goldkette (1926) and Paul Ash . In 1927 he became a member of the formation The New Yorkers , which Dave Tough also belonged to; with Tough he went on tour to Europe, where he worked with various band leaders such as Lud Gluskin in Berlin , George Carhart and Arthur Briggs . From 1930 to 1935 he played polo with Bert Ambrose in England, then returned to the USA in December 1935. In 1938 he played again in England, worked again at Ambrose, then at Ray Ventura in Paris in 1939. At the end of the year he returned to the United States, played in the early 1940s a. a. at Joe Sullivan , Jack Teagarden (1942), in which he also Bing Crosby's film Birth of the Blues occurred; also in the orchestra of Claude Thornhill, to which he belonged with one interruption until his death in 1949. For a short time he led a Territory Band in the Midwest , then returned to Thornhill in 1947, but soon fell ill and died at the age of 48. Polo recorded two sessions under its own name that originated in Europe around 1938/39. He was also involved in recordings by Jean Goldkette, Leonard Feather (1939), Coleman Hawkins , Joe Sullivan, Benny Carter and George Wettling (1939/1940), as well as by Jack Teagarden (1941) and (Claude Thornhill) (1947).

Lexigraphic entries

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .

Web links

• Danny Polo at Allmusic (English)