Emperor Marshall

(From left: Kaiser Marshall (drums), Alcide Pavageau (bass), Jim Robinson (trombone), Bunk Johnson (trumpet), Don Ewell (piano) and George Lewis (clarinet) at the Stuyvesant Casino, New York, circa June 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Kaiser Marshall , actually Joseph Marshall (* 11. June 1902 in Savannah , Georgia , † 2. January 1948 in New York City ) was an American jazz - drummer .

Marshall made his first appearances in Boston , where he grew up. a. with Jules Bledsoe and Charlie Dixon . In New York he first played in 1923 in the band of Ralph "Shrimp" Jones , before he gained his reputation as a leading jazz drummer in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra from 1922 to 1929 . In 1929 he played for McKinney's Cotton Pickers .

Even after he left Henderson, Marshall remained active as a drummer and band leader. His bands include a. the "Czars of Harmony" and the "Kaiser & Reynolds' Bostonians". He played in the orchestras of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway . Musicians he has worked with include LeRoy Smith , Leon Englund , Bobby Martin (European Tour 1937), Edgar Hayes , Wild Bill Davison , Art Hodes , Bunk Johnson (1946), Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow .

Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall died in 1948 of complications from food poisoning .

He was one of the first jazz drummers to use hi-hats .

literature

Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Leonard Feather : The Encyclopedia of Jazz . Bonanza, New York 1960, ISBN 0-517-01421-1 , pp. 323 .