Roy Palmer

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Roy Palmer (born April 2, 1887 in New Orleans , † December 22, 1963 in Chicago ) was an American jazz trombonist .

Live and act

Palmer first played as a guitarist in Roseal's Orchestra (or Rozele Orchestra) in 1906, then switched to the trumpet and finally to the trombone. At the beginning of his career he played the trombone with Richard M. Jones (1911, George Fewclothes Cabaret), Freddie Keppard (1911) and Willie Hightower (around 1914/15 in his American Stars at the Cadillac Club) and in the Tuxedo Brass Band and the Onward Brass band . In 1917 he moved to Chicago, where he played with Lawrence Duhé in Sugar Johnny Smith's band; when the band was taken over by King Oliver after the death of Sugar Johnny Smith , he left them. Palmer played in the bands of trumpeter Tig Chambers , in the bands of Doc Watson and Hughie Swift, and other bands in Chicago in the 1920s ; he also worked on recordings a. a. by Louis Armstrong , Jelly Roll Morton (1924, Fish Tail Blues , High Society ), Johnny Dodds (1927), Richard M. Jones (1929), the State Street Ramblers (1931), the Memphis Nighthawks (also known as Alabama Rascals , 1932) and most recently with the Chicago Rhythm Kings (1936). Palmer participated in a total of 14 recording sessions between 1923 and 1936. After John Chilton he was no longer active as a full-time musician by the early 1930s and worked for the Mazola Oil Company, in whose brass band he played. No further recordings were made after 1936; he moved to South State Street in Chicago in the summer of 1940, where he ran a laundry. He also taught trumpet, trombone and music theory; Albert Wynn and Preston Jackson were among his students in the early 1920s, and he continued to teach trombone, trumpet and music theory in his home in the 1950s.

Discographic notes

  • State Street Ramblers Volumes 1 (RST)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Allmusic, at satchmo.com different year of birth 1892, as well as New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and Chilton Who´s who in Jazz
  2. ↑ Brief portrait at satchmo.com (April 2) ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2012 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.satchmo.com
  3. ↑ Chilton Who's Who in Jazz
  4. ↑ Chilton Who's Who in Jazz
  5. ↑ Tom Lord Discography
  6. ↑ Chilton Who's Who in Jazz
  7. ↑ Chilton Who's Who in Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH December 22nd, 1963
Place of death Chicago