Emilio Caceres

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Emilio Caceres (born September 24, 1897 in Corpus Christi (Texas) , † February 10, 1980 in San Antonio ) was an American jazz and entertainment musician ( violin , arrangement ).

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Emilio Caceres was the older brother of the jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Ernie Caceres (1911–1971). As a child he had classical violin lessons; The first radio recordings were made in 1925 for WCAR Radio in San Antonio. Influenced by Joe Venuti and his family of musicians, he began performing with a swing orchestra in the San Antonio , Texas area in the 1930s ( Emilio Caceres y su orquesta del Club Aguila ). At the Texas Hotel at San Antonio, several tracks were recorded in 1934, including the vocal number El Rancho Grande , which were released by Victor and Bluebird Records in the United States and Mexico. In the late 1930s he played first in Detroit, then on the east coast with his brother Ernie and guitarist Johnny Gomez , a cousin, in a trio with which he recorded for Victor in 1937. He also took part in the recordings of his brother Ernie. The highlight of the trio's careers was their appearance on the nationally broadcast radio show Camel Caravan under the direction of Benny Goodman .

Musically, the trio's recordings were unusual due to the combination of violin and baritone saxophone (according to Gunther Schuller, improbable imstrumental combination ). For Nat Hentoff , What's the Use was an extremely fascinating performance of hot jazz on the violin; Emilio Caceres is unmistakably a hot violinist in terms of timing, phrasing and key . Further musical influences came from the Norteño and Tex-Mex styles as well as from the jazz of the time.

In the late 1930s the trio recorded the tracks The Last Roundup, Humoreske in Swing (after Dvořák, arranged by Caceres) and Amor Y Misterios , as well as the jazz standards I Got Rhythm , China Boy and Runnin 'Wild . The greatest success had the trio titled Jig in G .

In contrast to his brother (who joined Jack Teagarden in 1938 ), Emilio Caceres preferred to return to his native Texas soon. He only played briefly with Tommy Dorsey and then led his own big band in San Antonio; he also had his own weekly radio show. In 1949 Caceres recorded in San Antonio with an unknown orchestra ( Dark Eyes / Ojos negros ); Throughout the 1950s, he made further recordings with his orchestra, for example for Decca . He also played with other regional bands, such as in 1973 with the Texas Ragtime Orchestra .

In contrast to his brother Ernie, there are only a few publications by Emilio Caceres; the discographer Tom Lord lists (unlike the stylistically broader Antonio Barnett) in the field of jazz only four recording sessions between 1937 and 1969, the last time in 1969 when he recorded the LP Ernie & Emilio (audiophile) with his brother .

Along with Jimmy Bell , Al Duffy and Clarence Moore, Caceres was one of those jazz violinists who, compared to Stéphane Grappelli , Stuff Smith , Eddie South and Joe Venuti, received little public attention in the 1930s and 1940s.

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  1. ↑ Handbook of Texas Music , edited by Laurie E. Jasinski. 2012; a different year of death 1973 gives Ryan J. Thomas: Swing Fiddle: An Introduction . 1990, p. 14.
  2. ^ Discography on Emilio Caceres 1934-37
  3. ↑ a b Dave Oliphant: Texan Jazz. Austin: University of Texas Press 1996, p. 216
  4. ↑ Emilio Caceres (arranger) at DAHR
  5. ↑ Discography of the trio at DAHR
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 30, 2017)
  7. ↑ Julie Lyonn Lieberman: Improvising Violin . New York: Huiksi Music, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Caceres, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and entertainment musician (violin)
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Corpus Christi (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1980
Place of death San Antonio