Frank Trumbauer

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Singing the blues
  US 9 1927 (6 weeks)
Riverboat shuffle
  US 16 1927 (2 weeks)
I'm coming Virginia
  US 5 1927 (7 weeks)
There's a cradle in Caroline
  US 10 1927 (4 weeks)
Dusky Stevedore
  US 17th 1928 (1 week)
Mississippi Mud
  US 18th 1928 (1 week)
Get happy
  US 15th 1930 (3 weeks)
Georgia on My Mind
  US 10 1931 (4 weeks)
Medley of Isham Jones Dance Hits
  US 6th 1932 (6 weeks)

Frank (Frankie, Tram) Trumbauer (born May 30, 1901 in Carbondale , Illinois ; † June 11, 1956 in Kansas City , Kansas ) was an American jazz musician who played the rare C melody saxophone , but also the alto saxophone and other instruments such as clarinet and bassoon. He was also heard on various recordings as a singer.

Live and act

Trumbauer is best known for the recordings he made with the cornet player Bix Beiderbecke in the late 1920s , such as his first chart success Singing the Blues in February 1927.

Trumbauer's mother was a concert pianist. He had his first band as a teenager at the age of 17 and was in the US Navy during World War I. In 1921 he played in a band of the pianist Gene Rodemich . From 1922 he was in Chicago first in the Benson Orchestra, in 1923/24 with Ray Miller (including recordings) and in 1925 he became musical director in the orchestra of Jean Goldkette in the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis . There he began his collaboration with Bix Beiderbecke, which continued when he had his own orchestra in St. Louis. Both then played in 1926 with Jean Goldkette, in 1927 with Adrian Rollini and from 1927 in Paul Whiteman's orchestra , where Trumbauer stayed until 1932 and then briefly led his own band. In 1927 he received his own contract for recordings with Okeh. This led to important jazz recordings by Trumbauer with Beiderbecke (and Eddie Lang ) in the late 1920s. From 1929 to 1936 he made recordings in small groups with members of the Whiteman Orchestra, in particular with Beiderbecke. In 1931 the first recording of the Hoagy Carmichael piece Georgia on My Mind came into the Top 30. In 1934 he made recordings with his own band, among others with Bunny Berigan . In 1936 he also worked briefly with Charlie and Jack Teagarden in California and then occasionally had his own band in California from 1937 to 1939 (under the name Frankie Trombar) and was a studio musician. In March 1939 he gave up music and worked for the civil aviation authority and also as a test pilot during World War II . After the war he played in the NBC Orchestra in New York (studio work with Raymond Paige in 1945), but then pursued a career in the air traffic control authority from 1947.

Together with Bix Beiderbecke , Coleman Hawkins , and Pee Wee Russell , he is considered to be one of the musicians who introduced the ballad style to jazz, which differed considerably from the "hot" and blues styles that were used until then. He thus plays an outstanding role in the history of style, because he was one of the first musicians to incorporate the influences of classical European music, especially romanticism, into jazz. His style, reminiscent of the later cool jazz , influenced the young Lester Young in particular, but also Benny Carter , for example .

Discographic notes

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  1. ↑ All plates 78er. Individual references for US Billboard Black: Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International, ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Trumbauer, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trumbauer, Frankie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Carbondale , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1956
Place of death Kansas City , Kansas