Tommy god

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Arlan Thomas "Tommy" Gott (born March 2, 1895 in Waveland , Indiana , † January 3, 1965 in San Joaquin County , California ) was an American jazz trumpeter , cornet player and band leader .

Gott played with Vincent Lopez and Paul Whiteman in the early 1920s (soloist in I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise , 1922). He also appeared on I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate by the Okeh Syncopators ( Okeh 4694). The song hit # 15 on the US charts in February 1923. From the middle of the decade he worked with Sam Lanin , Ben Selvin , Jack Shilkret , Roger Wolfe Kahn , Irving Mills , Jack Teagarden , Jimmy McPartland , Tommy Dorsey , Annette Hanshaw and with his own band (with Dudley Fosdick, among others ). In 1929 he recorded under his own name ( Tommy Gott and His Rose Room Orchestra ) for Okeh Records ; a contributing musician was Tony Parenti . During this time he also played with the California Ramblers , Ted Wallace , Bernie Cummins and Jack Teagarden; He also accompanied vocalists such as Bessie Smith , Mamie Smith and Ethel Waters ( There'll Be Some Changes Made ). God lived on the west coast of the United States in the mid-1940s ; last recordings in jazz were made in 1945 by Paul Whiteman for Capitol Records . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 189 recording sessions between 1920 and 1945.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ted Gioia : The History of Jazz , 2011
  2. ↑ formed from musicians of the Harry Reser Orchestra such as Joe Tarto
  3. ^ Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another View on Jazz History. Liner Notes and Companion Book of the 100 CD Edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  4. ^ Warren Vaché : Jazz Gentry: Aristocrats of the Music World , 1974 - p. 102
  5. ^ Max Harrison , Charles Fox, Eric Thacker: Essential Jazz Records: Ragtime to Swing, London, Continuum 2000
  6. ↑ Peter J. Levinson: Tommy Dorsey: Livin 'in a Great Big Way, a Biography , 2009, p. 30
  7. ↑ Don Rayno: Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967 , p 256
  8. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 25, 2014)


personal data
SURNAME God, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES God, Arlan Thomas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter, cornet player and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Waveland, Indiana
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1965
Place of death San Joaquin County , California