Wilbur Sweatman

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Singles
Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues
  R&BTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 5 1918 (3 weeks)
Indianola
  R&BTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 5 1918 (3 weeks)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  R&BTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 5 1921 (4 weeks)
I'll say she does
  R&BTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 4th 1919 (3 weeks)
Slide, Kelly, Slide
  R&BTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 4th 1919 (4 weeks)

Wilbur C. Sweatman (born February 7, 1882 in Brunswick , Missouri , † March 9, 1961 in New York ) was one of the first clarinetists and bandleader of jazz .

Live and act

Wilbur Sweatman began his music career in a circus band before leading his so-called pseudo symphony orchestras and dance bands around 1902 . At first, Sweatman's band was a ragtime band. But with the advent of jazz, he knew how to change the repertoire and the way of playing. So he became possibly the first African-American band leader in jazz that recordings were made of.

7-inch record by Wilbur Sweatman and a studio symphony orchestra on Emerson Records (1916) in its original paper sleeve.

In December 1916 he also recorded his "Down Home Rag" for Emerson Records , which is considered to be one of the first jazz recordings on record. Due to the success of groups like the Original Dixieland Jass Band and the Original Creole Orchestra , Sweatman changed the style and line-up in 1917. In April 1917 he was invited to the studio by the Pathé with his newly formed jassband to record six tracks that were still close to ragtime, but improvised (especially in the tracks "A Bag of Rags" and "Joe Turner Blues") Parts of the clarinetist Sweatman included. Between 1918 and 1920 Columbia brought him for further recordings.

It is important for the lasting impression that he and his band made on the still young Duke Ellington . Sweatman was practically a model for the later greatest of all big band leaders in jazz. With tricks like playing three clarinets at once, he was possibly also a role model for Rahsaan Roland Kirk .

literature

  • Mark Berresford That's Got 'hem - the Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2010

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All plates 78er. Individual references for US Billboard Black: Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. 1/100 and 2/100
personal data
SURNAME Sweatman, Wilbur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweatman, Wilbur C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clarinetist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunswick , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1961
Place of death new York