Jack Gardner (musician)

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Jack Gardner (actually Francis Henry Gardner , born August 14, 1903 in Joliet (Illinois) , † November 26, 1957 in Dallas ) was an American jazz pianist and songwriter .

Life

Jack Gardner began performing in Denver in the early 1920s , where he played with Doc Becker's Blue Devils and Boyd Senter's band. In 1923 he moved to Chicago , where he led his own band, in which the clarinetist Clarence Hutchenrider also played at times . He also worked a. a. with Dave Tough and Eddie Condon (1927), Wingy Manone (1928), Jean Goldkette and Gene Austin , 1936 with Jimmy McPartland . He stayed in Chicago until 1937 when he moved to New York City . There he played with Sandy Williams and Harry James ( Night Special / Back Beat Boogie ), then returned to Chicago in the early 1940s, where he performed with his own band. In 1944 he recorded with Baby Dodds ( Doll Drag / Bye Bye Pretty Baby ). In his later years he worked in Dallas. Especially towards the end of his career, he was also active as a songwriter.

According to Nat Hentoff , his piano playing - similar to Jimmy Blythe , Alex Hill , Art Hodes and Joe Sullivan - was influenced by ragtime and blues .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dave Oliphant: Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State
  2. ^ John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies: American National Biography: Stratton-Tunney . Oxford University Press, 1999
  3. ^ Charles Delaunay : Hot discographie encyclopedique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.
  4. ↑ Nat Hentoff, Albert J. McCarthy: Jazz; new perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars . Da Capo Press, 1974
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardner, Francis Henry (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Joliet (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1957
Place of death Dallas