Gene Schroeder
Eugene Charles "Gene" Schroeder (born February 5, 1915 in Madison (Wisconsin) , † February 16, 1975 there ) was an American pianist of Chicago jazz .
Schroeder came from a musical family; the mother played the piano, the father the trumpet. When he was eleven he played in his father's band and in high school the clarinet in the school band. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Music School (1932). After a year he went to Milwaukee , where he played in his own band and with Wild Bill Davison . In 1939 he moved to New York and played in his own band and for a year in the big band of Joe Marsala and Marty Marsala, with Miff Mole (1943) and Wild Bill Davison. From 1943 he worked with Eddie Condon as his regular pianist, also in the opening of his club in 1945. In 1957 he was with this on tour of Great Britain; he was involved in many of Condon's recordings until the early 1960s. From 1961 to 1964 he played with the Dukes of Dixieland . In the late 1960s he played with Tony Parenti .
Under his own name he only recorded with a trio in 1944 (with Black and White ); he can also be heard on records by Sidney Bechet , Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett .
Lexigraphic entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
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| SURNAME | Schroeder, Gene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroeder, Eugene Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madison (Wisconsin) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1975 |
| Place of death | Madison (Wisconsin) |