James Tim Brymn

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James Timothy Brymn (born October 5, 1874 or 1881 in Kinston (North Carolina) , † October 3, 1946 in New York City ) was an American composer , orchestra conductor and pianist who worked primarily in the field of jazz and light music . He was also announced as Lieutenant James Tim Brymn or even as Mr. Jazz Himself .

Sheet music of the Cuban Cake Walk written by Brymn (1901)

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Brymn grew up in Kinston. After training at the Christian Institute , he studied at Shaw University in Raleigh . He received his musical training in New York at the National Conservatory of Music . He started composing in 1900. In 1905 five songs that Brymn had written were used in the Smart Set shows, "Morning Noon and Night", "O-San", "Powhatana", "Travel On" and "Darktown Grenadiers". As musical director of the show production In Dahomey , he toured England in 1904. In 1907 he worked with Joe Jordan on the production of the musical The Husband . In 1914 he was the musical director of James Reese's Clef Club in Harlem ; he conducted orchestra and choir. During World War I he served in the US Army with the rank of Second Lieutenant ; from 1918 he directed the regimental band of the 350th Field Artillery , which was also called Black Devils and made known rags and other pieces of early jazz in France with two other African-American army orchestras .

Brymn opened the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 with this large-format Black Devil Orchestra . After returning to the United States, the orchestra performed at the American Academy of Music in Philadelphia; he was certified to lead the battle of jazz as a "military symphony".

After his discharge from the army, Brymn initially led orchestras in two of New York City's hip nightclubs , Ziegfeld's Roof Garden and Reisenweber's Jardin de Dance . In 1921 he recorded twelve songs for OKeh Records with a reformed Black Devil Orchestra and the singer Gertrude Saunders , including "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home", "Don't Tell Your Monkey Man" and "Siren of the Southern Sea" . He also wrote the text for WC Handy Aunt Hagar's Blues . With Spencer Williams and Perry Bradford he wrote the revue Put and Take (1921). In 1922/23 he conducted the Broadway show Liza . In 1933 he became a member of the ASCAP . During the 1930s he directed African American bands for the US Army in Europe.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bob Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience . Praeger Publishers, Santa Barbara 2013, ISBN 978-0313344237 , p. 123.
  2. ↑ a b Brymn, Lieutenant James Tim (1881-1946), BlackPast.org . Found December 26, 2016
  3. ↑ a b James Tim Brymn, Jass.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 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. . Found December 26, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jass.com
  4. ↑ a b c Short biography (Library of Congress)
  5. ^ Reid Badger A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe Oxford University Press 1994, p. 112
  6. ^ Reid Badger A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe , p. 204
  7. ^ Tim Brymn and His Black Devil Orchestra, RedHotJazz.com . Retrieved December 26, 2016
  8. ^ Internet Broadway Database
personal data
SURNAME Brymn, James Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brymn, James Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, orchestra conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kinston, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1946
Place of death New York City