Husk O'Hare

Anderson "Husk" O'Hare (born October 27, 1896 in Chicago , † April 19, 1970 there ) was an American jazz bandleader and impresario .

After his army service in 1921, O'Hare was involved in the first recording of the Friar's Society Orchestra as a booking manager , which then worked as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in Chicago. Soon after, he founded his first formation Blue Friars in Chicago , which he soon gave the name O'Hare's Red Dragons ; it was mainly active in the American Midwest and became one of the pioneering groups in the first radio broadcasts. Many of his musicians came from Chicago's Austin High Gang . The musicians of this band, which existed in 1925/26, included u. a. Jimmy McPartland , Bud Freeman , Frank Teschemacher , Bix Beiderbecke , Floyd O'Brien, Dave Tough , Dave North, Jim Lanigan , Arnold Sweatman, Harry O'Connor and Franklyn March. They played u. a. in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Atlantic City and Baltimore. Recordings were made for the Gennett and Decca labels .

Other members of his bands were Husk O'Hare and His Footwarmers (1928) and Husk O'Hare Wolverines , when Dick Voynow sold the rights to the name " Wolverine Orchestra " to Husk O'Hare, who then subordinated various ensembles at the end of the decade marketed by this name. As a manager, O'Hare was in charge of twenty bands at times in the late 1920s. At least until 1941 O'Hare was on tour with his own bands; he then withdrew completely from the music scene.

Web links

• Entry in the Bigband Database
• Husk O'Hare and his Footwarmers in Redhotjazz
• Husk O'Hare and his Wolverines in Redhotjazz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Husk O'Hare , US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed August 11, 2016

swell

• Charles A. Sengstock: That toddlin 'town: Chicago's white dance bands and orchestras, 1900-1950. Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2004; ISBN 0252029542
• Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac. Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena 1978