Herb Flemming

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Herb Flemming , also written Herb Fleming, maiden name Nicolaiih El-Michelle (born April 5, 1900 in Honolulu , †  October 3, 1976 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician (trombone, vocals) of traditional jazz and swing , who performed a lot in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Sam Wooding and his orchestra in Berlin in 1925, Herb Flemming, far left

Flemming had North African ancestors. He studied in the Dobbs Chauncey School in Dobbs Ferry , New York , first Mellophon and euphonium before the trombone changed. He was a member of the military band of James Reese Europe , with whom he was in France in 1917 (369th US Infantry Band). After the war he studied cello, trombone and music theory at the Frank Damrosch Conservatory in New York and later at the Accademia di St. Cecilia and the University of Rome . In 1921 he played with Fred Turnstall, then with Johnny Dunn (with whom he made his first recordings in 1921), Perry Bradford and with his own band (directed with Bobby Lee) in Philadelphia . He then went on a European tour with Sam Wooding in the mid-1920s and returned to the USA for a short time in 1927. In the late 1920s he was back in Europe with the Lew Leslie's Blackbird Show in London and Paris. In Europe he founded his own band, the International Rhythm Aces , in the early 1930s , but also continued to work with Wooding, e. B. in Berlin for a long time . Flemming then accompanied Josephine Baker and played with his own band in Buenos Aires , Paris (1933), Calcutta (for half a year), Shanghai and Ceylon . From 1935 to 1937 he performed with his own band, with Fritz Schulz-Reichel and also as a singer in Berlin, worked in 1936 at the time of the Olympic Games in Berlin as a translator and in Italy with Sessto Carlin's Society Orchestra.

In 1937 he returned to the United States and played with Earl Hines , but could not join his band due to objections from the union. He performed as a singer in Cicero , where he met Fats Waller , with whom he played from New Year's Eve 1940 to 1942 as a trombonist and singer. After some time with Noble Sissle , he moved to California in 1943, where he played for the International Revenue Service until 1949 , worked as a tax inspector and occasionally appeared in films (such as "Pillow to Post", "No Time for Romance"). In 1949 he moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelancer and from 1953 to 1958 for Red Allen . In 1958 he went to Rome to film. In 1964 he moved to Spain, where he performed with his own band and played in Madrid, Torremolinos and Málaga. He also performed temporarily in Italy and Germany, where he made a record a. a. recorded with Albert Nicholas and Benny Waters at MPS ("Great Traditionalists in Europe"). In 1976 he moved back to the USA, where he died shortly afterwards.

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  1. ↑ according to Reclam's Jazz Guide and Grove's Dictionary of Jazz. According to Feather, Gitler "Encyclopedia of Jazz" on the other hand in Puente, California on April 5, 1904, and according to the Laffont Dictionnaire du Jazz, Butte, Montana, April 5, 1898
  2. ↑ Before that he played in the 15th New York National Guard Band under James Europe and Eugene Mikell
personal data
SURNAME Flemming, Herb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming, Herb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1976
Place of death New York City