Horace Eubanks

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Horace Eubanks (born April 21, 1894 in Springfield (Missouri) , † November 21, 1948 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American jazz musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone ) who was active in the music scene in St. Louis and Chicago .

Eubanks grew up in St. Louis and moved to Chicago in the early 1920s, where he recorded Morton with Jelly Roll in 1923 ("Someday Sweetheart"). In the same year Charlie Creath brought him and Bob Shoffner back to St. Louis; he recorded with Creath in 1925 and 1927. He then went back to Chicago, where he played with Wilson Robinson and in Europe with Benny Payton . On his return to Chicago in 1934, he worked for Carroll Dickerson ; In 1935 he recorded with Zutty Singleton . He then played again in St. Louis with Fate Marable and Charlie Creath. After a nervous breakdown, he spent several years in a mental hospital in the 1940s. In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 1923 and 1935.

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  1. ^ A b See Dennis Owsley: City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973 . 2006
  2. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 25, 2015)