Elmer Schoebel

Elmer Schoebel ( born September 8, 1896 in East St. Louis, † December 14, 1970 in Saint Petersburg ( Florida) ) was an American jazz musician (piano, composer, arranger ), known for some jazz standards and as a member of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.

Life

Schoebel began as a silent film pianist in Champaign (Illinois ) and played from 1912 to 1917 at the Vaudeville. In 1920 he played with the "20th Century Jazz Band " in Chicago to the 1921 Muggsy Spanier also belonged. 1922/23, he was with the " New Orleans Rhythm Kings " ( NORK, or the Friars Society Orchestra, as they called themselves then), with whom he recorded also. He then led 1924/5 own band and played in the orchestra in 1925 by Isham Jones in New York. After returning to Chicago, he played among others Louis Panico and Art Kassel (1928 ), 1927 with his own band and arranged for Melrose Publishing. In 1935, he was arranger with Ina Ray Hutton and after ten years senior arranger at Warner Brothers Publications in New York. 1950 to 1953 he played with Conrad Janis, 1958 with "Blue Steele 's Rhythm Rebels " and later with his own band in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Schoebel is primarily known as a composer of jazz standards such as " Bugle Call Rag ", " Nobody's Sweetheart Now", "Spanish Shawl ", " Farewell Blues" (as co-writer ), " Copenhagen" and "Prince of Wails ". His only recordings under his own name in 1929 are " Copenhagen" and "Prince of Wails ".

Swell

• Carlo Bohländer inter alia: " Reclams jazz leader". Reclam, Stuttgart, 1989