Stan King
Stan King (* 1900 in Hartford ; † November 19, 1949 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( drums , vocals and kazoo ).
Life
King came to New York in 1920 and worked from 1922 to 1926 on numerous recordings of the California Ramblers and their offshoots The Little Ramblers , in which he could also be heard as a kazoo player and with his scat singing ("Those Panama Mamas"). During this time he also took part in recordings of the Varsity Eight (1923) and the University Six (1925) around Adrian Rollini and Irving Brodsky .
In the late 1920s he played with leading dance bands and jazz formations such as Roger Wolfe Kahn , Jean Goldkette , Paul Whiteman , Ben Selvin , Boyd Senter (1928), Joe Venuti (1929), Bert Lown (1929-1931) and the Dorsey Brothers . He also took part in the recording of smaller ensembles.
In the 1930s he worked primarily as a studio musician; so he played u. a. in an early version of the Benny Goodman Orchestra, with Adrian Rollini (1934), Joe Haymes , the Three T's , Frankie Trumbauer , Louis Armstrong (1936), Bob Howard (1937) and Bob Zurke (1939/40). In the 1940s, King's alcoholism led to health problems and limited his musical career; he played in the Chauncey Gray Band and then fell into oblivion. According to Scott Yanow , Stan King was one of the leading drummers of the 1920s.
literature
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
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| SURNAME | King, Stan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (drums, vocals and kazoo) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1949 |
| Place of death | New York City |