Sterling Bose

Sterling Belmont Bose , also Boze, Bozo, (born February 23, 1906 in Florence (Alabama) , † June 1958 in St. Petersburg (Florida) ) was a trumpeter and cornet player of hot jazz and swing .

Sterling Bose began his career in New Orleans with Tom Brown; He came to St. Louis in 1923 and worked for the Arcadian Serenaders in the Arcadia Ballroom, where Frankie Trumbauer also played with his band. In the mid-1920s he became familiar with the way Bix Beiderbecke played and oriented himself towards it. He replaced Bix Beiderbecke at Jean Goldkette in Kansas City in 1927 and became known there with Beiderbecke-style solos. He played for Ben Pollack in the early 1930s (1930 to 1933) and then worked as a freelancer. He played with Joe Haymes (1934) and Ray Noble (1936) and made records with Vic Berton and Red McKenzie . Bose achieved his breakthrough as a trumpeter in the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey in 1935/36, with Glenn Miller (1937), Bob Crosby (1938/39), Bobby Hackett (1939), Benny Goodman (1936) and Glenn Miller (1937). He can be heard as a soloist in I'm Praying Humble and Song of the Wanderer in Crosby's orchestra and in Loopin 'the Loop with the Bob Cats (1938/39). In the early 1940s he worked in the short-lived big band of Bob Zurke and Jack Teagarden , and then as a freelancer in clubs in Chicago, before moving back to New York in 1943 , where he played in small groups at the jazz club "Nick's" Head of Art Hodes and Miff Moles . He has performed with Eddie Condon at concerts and has also worked with George Brunies . Bose also recorded records with Bobby Hackett, Johnny Mercer , Hot Lips Page and Rod Cless (1944). Then he went back to Chicago for a short time. From 1950 he worked in St. Petersburg in Florida, where he played in clubs until shortly before his death and died in 1958 by suicide .

literature

• John Jörgensen & Erik Wiedemann: Jazz Lexicon . Munich, Mosaik Verlag, approx. 1960
• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
• Richard Sudhalter, Article Bose, Sterling (Belmont) , in: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.), New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Macmillan 1996, p. 139