Doc Ross

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Edward V. "Doc" Ross (* around 1900 in Sullivan (Wisconsin) , † after 1932) was an American jazz musician ( drums ) and head of the Territory Band Doc Ross and His Jazz Bandits in the American Midwest.

Live and act

From the early 1920s, he led Doc Ross, a Territory Band consisting of white musicians, which played first in Wichita Falls , later in Oklahoma City at the Skirvin Hotel , Olmo's Club and the Meadowware Country Club in Fort Worth and from there in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma went on tour. The Ross Band was a dance orchestra that played a "Hybrid of Dixieland , Jazz and Western Music".

Temporary members of the band included tuba and bass player J. Weldon "Pappy" (or "Paps") Maples and woodwinds Mike Simpson and Bob McCracken ; Around the same time, from 1925 to 1927 Jack Teagarden played with Doc Ross Jazz Bandits , in 1926 Wingy Manone and in 1932 the young Harry James . A little later the band broke up in San Angelo .

In the late 1920s, Doc Ross took part in record sessions with Willard Robison (who, like Ross, came from Sullivan) for Apex and Perfect Records . In the field of jazz he was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1926 and 1928. The band's recordings were made under the band name Doc Ross and His Recording Orchestra Featuring Jack Teagarden and His Euphonium .

Doc Ross’s band, with Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawks Orchestra , Alphonso Trent , Troy Floyd , Jesse Stone and Benny Moten, was one of the well-known dance orchestras of the Roaring Twenties in the Midwest.

The bandleader is not to be confused with the jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Theodore (Ted) "Doc" Ross, who was active in the Midwest in the 1920s and 30s and who, among other things, played a part. a. with Lester Young in the Blue Devils of Walter Page played.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Duncan P. Schiedt: The Jazz State of Indiana . 1977, page 51.
  2. ↑ a b Territory Bands entry in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
  3. ↑ The Handbook of Texas - Jazz
  4. ^ A b Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
  5. ↑ a b Portrait of Mike Simpson
  6. ^ The Second Line, 1971 - Volumes 23-25 ​​- Page 28. Maples played in 1928/29 with Jimmy Joy .
  7. ^ Entry in The Rough Guide to Jazz , by Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley
  8. ↑ There are different details about the time periods; According to Dave Oliphant, Teagarden played with RJ Marin's Southern Trumpeters until 1924, before joining Doc Ross and his Jazz Bandits in 1924 . See Dave Oliphant: Texan Jazz , 1996, p. 140.
  9. ↑ In 1927 Teagarden came to New York City with the Ross Band, where he then left the band. See Lewis Porter , Michael Ullman, Ed Hazell: Jazz: from its origins to the present . 1993, p. 85
  10. ↑ Handbook of Texas Music , edited by Laurie E. Jasinski
  11. ^ Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years
  12. ^ Peter J. Levinson: Tommy Dorsey : Livin 'in a Great Big Way, a Biography . 2009
  13. ↑ At this time the Doc Ross Orchestra was playing in the Hotel Paso Del Norte in El Paso , Texas with the line-up Jack Teagarden (trb), Wingy Manone (tp), Bob McCracken, Jack McPhee , Walter Botts (reeds), Wilbur Stump (p ), Paps Maples (kb), Buddy Thilman (bjo) and Doc Ross (dr). See Ross Russell : Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest , p. IX.
  14. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 21, 2015)
  15. ↑ Information from Dave Dexter Prentice-Hall: The Jazz Story, from the '90s to the' 60s , 1964; however, this is not confirmed by Tom Lord in his Jazz Discography.
  16. ↑ Ken Burns : Jazz - The Roaring Twenties
  17. ↑ Christophe Pirenne Vocabulaire des musiques afro-américaines , 1994, p. 159.
  18. ^ Douglas Henry Daniels Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young . 2002, page 131.
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Doc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Edward V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sullivan, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH after 1932