Doc Wheeler

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Doc Wheeler (actually Wheeler A. Morin , born January 10, 1910 in Muncie (Indiana) , † December 15, 2005 in Avon (Indiana) ) was an American jazz musician ( trombone , vocals ) and band leader .

Live and act

Wheeler played at the beginning of his career in Indianapolis in 1928 with Raymond "Syd" Valentine (1908-88) in his ten-piece band Patent Leather Kids , then with Valentine in a hotel band in Milwaukee and in 1930 in the Bernie Young Big Band. In the mid-1930s, he directed Doc Wheeler's Sunset Royal Serenaders , which u. a. also toured with the Ink Spots through the southern states of the USA. In 1939 he arranged their hit "If I didn't Care". Wheeler worked in New York in the early 1940s with his own big band Doc Wheeler and His Sunset Orchestra ; she has performed in the Savoy Room, Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater . In 1941/42 he played several titles in New York such as “Keep Jumpin '”, Irving Berlin's “Me and My Melinda” (vocals by James Otis Lewi) and “Tunie's Tune” for Bluebird Records ; in the numbers "Big and Fat and Forty-four" and "Foo-Gee" he also acted as a band vocalist. The band was successful with the song "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?" In his orchestra played u. a. Cat Anderson , Reunald Jones , Sam "The Man" Taylor , Raymond Tunia , Leroy Kirkland , Al Lucas and Joe Murphy . In 1945, Wheeler was a trombonist with Bobby Booker, who performed at Club Elk's Rendezvous . In 1947 he was still involved as a singer in recordings of Bill Johnson and His Musical Notes ("Leave Tt to Fats, Gate"). In later years he worked as a radio disc jockey for gospel music in Long Island. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he led a big band in New York. a. Also Mario Escalera belonged and Small's Paradise occurred. After the death of his wife in 1992, he returned to Indianapolis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Leander Williams: Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue . Charleston (SC): History Press, 2014
  2. ^ Doc Wheeler. Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 18, 2018)
  4. ↑ Mario Edscalera Requiem. Local 802, May 5, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wheeler, Doc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morin, Wheeler A. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trombone, vocals) and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Muncie (Indiana)
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2005
Place of death Avon (Indiana)