Eddie Vincent

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Edward "Eddie" Vincent (* July 1878 ; † after 1925) was an early jazz trombonist .

Vincent, who was mainly a dock worker, lived in Algiers (Louisiana) around 1910 and played in the Creole Jazz Band in St. Louis around 1916 (with Freddie Keppard , George Baquet , Jimmy Palao , Norwood Williams , Henry Morgan Prince and Bill Johnson, among others ), with which recordings were made in New York in 1918 ("Tack'em Down"). Vincent then continued his career in Chicago, where he worked for Ollie Powers 'Harmony Syncopators (1923, with Tommy Ladnier and Jimmie Noone ) ("Play That Thing"), Everett Robbins (1924), Jones' Paramount Charleston Four (1925) and played at Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals in 1926. In the field of jazz he was involved in seven recording sessions between 1918 and 1926, also with papa Charlie Jackson .

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Lawrence Gushee: Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band . 2005.
  2. ↑ See Dennis Owsley: City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973 . 2006
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 25, 2015)
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SURNAME Vincent, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincent, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1878
DATE OF DEATH after 1925