Charley Straight

Charlie Straight († September 21, 1940 in Chicago) was an American trumpeter and pianist, big band leader in the Chicago jazz and popular dance music.

Charlie Straight founded in 1917 in Chicago Territory a band that had an engagement at Rainbow Gardens in Chicago in the late 1920s and otherwise played exclusively in the Midwest; she was (besides the bands of Isham Jones, Bennie Krueger and Ted Weems and the Coon -Sanders Nighthawks ) to the first bands that were taken at the Music Corporation of America ( MCA) newly founded under contract. Her performances were broadcast on radio station; Records published by Brunswick and Paramount Records. Among the titles of the success Charlie Straight Orchestra included " Henpecked Blues ", " Sweet Henry From Tennessee " (1923 ) and "Minor Gaff " (1928 ).

Straight claimed for himself to have been the originator of later success of Kay Kyser title and Sammy Kaye; he was the one who invented the term Swing, which was popularized in the 1930s then.

In Memory Straight probably remains primarily by the fact that in 1925 Bix Beiderbecke four weeks belonged to his orchestra; he was fired because he was unable to read the arrangements. Frank Teschemacher also played in his orchestra, which played rarely more than ten musicians; it was one of the best dance bands of the time. Another member was Danny Alvin. Although the peak of his success were the 1920s, he remained until the end of the 1930s active as a bandleader. He died in September 1940, when he was captured in the streets of Chicago by a car. He wrote the song " Mocking Bird Rag ".