Jake Frazier

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Jacob W. "Jake" Frazier (* around 1890, † after 1926) was an American jazz trombonist .

Frazier was a trombonist in the Jenkins Orphanage Bands during the 1900s and 1910s ; for the following decade he worked with Will Marion Cook , Gonzelle White , Fate Marable, and the Drake & Walker Show. He also toured with Bessie Smith , participated in over fifty recording sessions and was a regular session musician for the Ajax Records label . With Elmer Snowden he wrote "Jake's Weary Blues" in the mid-1920s (which he also recorded in 1925 under his own name for Ajax). During recordings he accompanied the blues singers Helen Gross , Maggie Jones , Viola McCoy , Monette Moore , Mamie Smith and Rosa Henderson . He appeared as a (rare) soloist in Get Yourself a Monkey Man and Make Him Strut His Stuff (1924) with the Kansas City Five , a studio band with Bob Fuller , Elmer Snowden, Bubber Miley , Louis Metcalf and Louis Hooper . In the field of jazz he was involved in 47 recording sessions between 1921 and 1927. a. also with Charles Booker and Buddy Christian . One of Frazier's students was Geechie Fields .

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  1. ^ John Chilton : Ride, Red, Ride: The Life of Henry 'Red' Allen , 2000, p. 32
  2. ↑ Ted Vincent: Keep Cool: The Black Activists Who Built the Age of Jazz . 1995, page 56.
  3. ↑ Bruce Bastin: The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene , 2012
  4. ↑ The band is not to be confused with the later Kansas City Five around Lester Young . The band, initiated by music manager Joe Davis , also released records as Choo Choo Jazzers .
  5. ↑ Short biography at charlestonjazz.net ( memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.charlestonjazz.net
  6. ^ Band portrait at Red Hot Jazz
  7. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 22, 2015)
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SURNAME Frazier, Jake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frazier, Jacob W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1890
DATE OF DEATH after 1926