Jim Cullum Junior

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Jim Cullum junior (born September 20, 1941 in San Antonio ; † August 11, 2019 there ) was an American cornetist and bandleader of oldtime jazz .

Live and act

Cullum played as a student at Trinity University in San Antonio , Texas in the septet Happy Jazz Band, which his father founded in 1962 . His father Jim Cullum senior was a clarinetist and had a. a. played with Jack Teagarden . From 1963 they appeared in the jazz club The Landing, run by Cullum, on the River Walk in San Antonio. After the death of his father in 1973 they called themselves Jim Cullum Jazz Band (JCJB) and played at the Hyatt Regency from 1981 . They have released over 40 records and from 1989 played weekly on the radio in their own program Riverwalk - Live from the Landing on KSTX , which was broadcast nationwide.

The 2007 JCJB included Ron Hockett (clarinet, saxophone), Kenny Rupp ( trombone ), Jim Turner (piano), Howard Elkins (guitar, banjo), Don Mopsick (bass), Mike Waskiewicz (drums). In 1987 they played a tribute to Turk Murphy at Carnegie Hall . From 1993 to 2005 they were regularly at the Stanford Summer Jazz Workshop. From 1980 they also played frequently at church jazz masses.

From the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, he also owned the jazz label Audiophile Records , which he sold to Jazzology (without his own band recordings from the catalog). In the field of jazz he was involved in 77 recording sessions between 1963 and 2005.

Discographic notes

  • Eloquent Clarinet (Audiophile Records, 1976)
  • 'Tis the Season ... To Be Jammin' (Audiophile, 1986)
  • Super Satch (Stomp Off, 1986)
  • Hooray for Hoagy! (Audiophile, 1990)
  • Chasin 'the Blues (River Walk, 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ San Antonio Jazz Legend Jim Cullum Has Died. The Syncopated Times, August 11, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 12, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Cullum, Jim Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2019
Place of death San Antonio