Troy Floyd

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Troy Floyd (born January 5, 1901 in Texas , † July 16, 1953 in San Diego , California ) was an American musician (tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet) and leader of a Territory Band in San Antonio , the Kansas City Jazz is attributable.

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Troy Floyd led his own bands in San Antonio from the mid-1920s; his first ensemble was a sextet, which he founded in 1924 and expanded to a nonet in 1926. Floyd and his band could be heard regularly on the local radio station HTSA, which broadcast his performances at the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio. Therefore, the band chose Troy Floyd and His Plaza Hotel Orchestra as the name when the first recordings for Okeh Records were made on March 14, 1928 ( Shadowland Blues / Dreamland Blues ). The orchestra was one of the first African-American bands to make records. Floyd's band also had an engagement in the Shadowland Club , from which the title of Shadowland Blues was derived. Floyd's musicians at the time included trumpeter Claude "Benno" Kennedy and saxophonist Siki Collins. Between 1926 and 1929, trumpeter Don Albert also played in Floyd's band ; In 1929 tenor saxophonist Herschel Evans joined the group and recorded the "Dreamland Blues", which is said to be the first solo ever to be heard on record. A number of other later well-known jazz musicians also played with the band, such as Hot Lips Page , Chester Boone and Buddy Tate . In 1932 Floyd broke up the band. He later worked as manager of a pool hall in San Diego, California, where he died in July 1953.

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  1. ↑ Kennedy then organized his own band, the Oleanders , in 1927 and moved to California.
personal data
SURNAME Floyd, Troy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Texas , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1953
Place of death San Diego , California , USA