Snoozer Quinn

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Edwin "Snoozer" McIntosh Quinn (born October 18, 1906 in McComb , Mississippi , † 1949 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American jazz guitarist of old-time jazz .

Live and act

Snoozer Quinn learned to play mandolin , guitar and violin at the age of seven . When his family moved to Bogalusa , Louisiana, he was already working as a professional musician at the age of eleven. At the age of seventeen he became a member of the Paul English Traveling Shows and shortly thereafter played in Matt Britt's orchestra .

In 1925 he became a member of Peck Kelley 's band , Peck's Bad Boys , with whom he played in Shreveport , and performed in the New Orleans area in the years that followed. On the recommendation of Bix Beiderbecke , he was hired by Paul Whiteman . The snoozer Quinn was legendary for his virtuosity among many music colleagues (such as Eddie Lang , Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden , Frank Trumbauer , Joe Venuti ) who played him in late-night jam sessions after playing in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in New York in the late 1920s. Years heard. After a brief engagement with Paul Whiteman in New York, he returned to his native New Orleans in 1929, already ill. There are only a few recordings of him, mainly the recordings that his friend, cornet player Johnny Wiggs (who also plays cornet) made with him shortly before his death, when Quinn was already in hospital for his tuberculosis. You can hear Clarinet Marmalade , Singing the Blues , Snoozer's Telephone Blues , Georgia on My Mind / Smoke Gets in My Eyes , Snoozer's Wanderings , You Took Advantage of Me , Out of Nowhere , My Melancholy Baby and Nobody's Sweetheart .

The eight record sides that he made for Victor in 1925 are lost, as have the trio recordings Singing the Blues with Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer in 1929 for Columbia. There are also recordings with the great Paul Whiteman Orchestra, where he played for a few months 1928/29, in whose lavish arrangements he can hardly be heard, and on a recording with the hillbilly singer (and later governor of Louisiana) Jimmie Davis from 1931. He is also said to have recorded four solo pieces in 1928 in San Antonio. Possibly there were also recordings for RCA (also lost today).

literature

  • Maurice Summerfield: The Jazz Guitar - Its evolution and its players . Ashley Mark Publishing, 1978. ISBN 0-9506224-1-9

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Summerfield: The Jazz Guitar , p. 165
  2. ↑ published by Fat Cat Jazz in 1969
  3. ↑ on his Bear Family Collection
  4. ↑ so Brian Rust , "Victor Master Book"
personal data
SURNAME Quinn, snoozer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quinn, Edwin McIntosh (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH McComb , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death New Orleans , Louisiana