Wade Whaley

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Ory's Sunshine Orchestra , 1922: Wade Whaley sits in the middle.

Wade Whaley (born February 22, 1892 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † February 1968 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York ) was an American jazz musician ( clarinet ) who, with Bill Johnson and Kid Ory, was one of the pioneers of the early Jazz in Los Angeles belonged to.

Live and act

Whaley first played the double bass and guitar before switching to the clarinet. In 1916 he had lessons with Lorenzo Tio junior in New Orleans; he had his first appearances with Armand Piron's orchestra, which appeared in the Temple Theater. He first played in local bands, such as Jack Carey's Crescent Orchestra, in 1918 with Mutt Carey . and John Robichaux . In 1917 Jelly Roll Morton invited the musicians Buddy Petit , Wade Whaley and Frank Dusen to leave Louisiana and join his band in Los Angeles. It was there in 1918 that the first recordings with Jelly Roll Morton, Reb Spikes, Mutt Carey and Kid Ory were made; these recordings are now considered untraceable. He then returned to New Orleans to follow Kid Ory to Los Angeles in 1918.

In Los Angeles, Whaley played in Orys Creole Jazz Band with Mutt Carey from 1919 to 1925 . However, he did not appear in Ory's 1921 recordings for Sunshine Records, where he was represented by Dink Johnson . In San Francisco he led the band Black & Tan Jazz Hounds (also Black & Tan Syncopators ) from 1925 . In the early 30's he played in a theater band at Capitol Burlesque Hall; around 1934 he worked full-time as a shipyard worker in San Jose. In the mid-1930s he had a band in San Francisco that also included drummer Earl Watkins . In the field of jazz he was only involved in eight recording sessions in 1943/44, with Ory and with Bunk Johnson 's V-Disc Veterans (with Floyd O'Brien , Fred Washington , Frank Pasley , Red Callender , Lee Young ). After Jimmie Noone's death in 1944, he was his successor on the Orson Welles CBS radio show .

Discographic notes

  • Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band (Folklyric Records, ed. 1975)
  • The Mercury All-Stars Jazz Combination: Kid Ory 1944 (Joy Records, ed. 1981)
  • Bunk Johnson: In San Francisco (American Music, ed. 1994)

literature

  • Nicolas Slonimsky , Laura Diane Kuhn: Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, New York, 2001, p. 649.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quintard Taylor: In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West from 1528 to 1990 . 1999, page 248
  2. ^ A b Floyd Levin: Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians . 2000.
  3. ^ Sacramento New Orleans Hot Jazz Society, 1972
  4. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
  5. ^ Samuel Charters : A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz . 2008, page 57.
  6. ↑ Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Ilene Susan Fort: Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 . 2000, page 156.
  7. ↑ George Lipsitz : How Racism Takes Place. 2011, page 220
  8. ^ Thomas J. Hennessey: From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935 . 1994, page 35.
  9. ^ Daniel Hardie: Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style . 2002, p. 132.
  10. ^ Leta E. Miller: Music and Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War . 2012, p. 174.
  11. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 6, 2015)
  12. ↑ Simon Callow: Orson Welles , Volume 2: Hello Americans . 2011, p. 206
personal data
SURNAME Whaley, Wade
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH February 1968
Place of death Brooklyn , New York City , New York