Jack Delaney (musician)

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Jack Delaney (born August 27, 1930 in New Orleans , † September 22, 1975 ibid) was an American jazz trombonist (also vocals , trumpet ) of Dixieland .

Live and act

Jack Delaney studied at Southeastern Louisiana College and worked in New Orleans in the late 1940s and early 1950s with Johnny Reininger (1949-51), Sharkey Bonano (1951-53) and Tony Almerico (1953/54). Recordings were mainly made in the mid-1950s with Almerico's Parisian Room Band , which was accompanied by singer Lizzie Miles . During this time he also recorded with his own formations as well as with Ken Colyer and Pete Fountain . From 1958 he worked at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans with Leon Kellner, later again with Pete Fountain. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 52 recording sessions between 1950 and 1977.

Discographic notes

  • Jack Delaney and George Girard in New Orleans (Southland Records, 1954)
  • Dixieland (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans) (Southland Records, 1955)
  • Jack Delaney and His New Orleans Jazz Babies (Southland Records, 1955), with Pete Fountain, Chink Martin , Roy Zimmerman, Joe Capraro, Monk Hazel
  • Jack Delaney with Lee Collins (Southland Records, 1955)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Bruyninckx: 60 Years of Recorded Jazz 1917-1977, Volume 3 . P. D-223
  2. Tom Lord Jazz Discography