Fred Hall (musician)

Fred Hall ( born April 10, 1898 in New York City; † October 6, 1954 ) was an American jazz musician and orchestral conductor. With his Orchestra Hall took 1925-1930 to more than 160 titles, ranging from jazz to Novelty to dance music.

Life

Despite his extensive work is about Fred Hall's career relatively little is known.

Hall was born in 1898 in New York City and started his career as a pianist for various publishers. His professional career started in 1925, began as a Hall to take up with his orchestra for numerous record labels, jazz, pop and novelty pieces. By 1930, this phase lasted that its most active and most successful was also the same time. For Okeh Records Hall was, for example, under the pseudonym Fred "Sugar" Hall and his Sugar Babies under contract for Banner Records as Fred Hall's Jazz Band, for Gennett Records as Tin Pan Paraders, for Cameo Records and banners as Home Towners and Harmony Records as Honey Swamp Stompers. Hall's band consisted mainly of trumpeters Mike Mosiello ( 1929 ), Jack and Leo McConville Mollick Harry Blevins, clarinetist Eddie Grosso, banjo player Albert Russo, tuba player Al Morse, drummer Joseph Mayo and Phillip D' Arcy at the violin, on harmonica and on the second piano.

Hall himself played only rarely on recordings. Instead, he arranged and conducted his orchestra prefer. During this time, most plates were recorded along with Hall's friend Arthur Fields as a singer. With it, he was represented at many " low-budget labels " of the time and both left behind a large amount of shots. Hall and Fields were both talented composers. Among her most famous titles include I Got A Code In By box and Eleven More Months and Ten More Days. End of the 1920s were also heard regularly on the NBC show The Sunday Driver Hall and Fields.

From 1930 started Fields and Hall during the Great Depression musically a fresh start in the popular Old- Time Music. The market for rural musicians " boomed " formally. Under various pseudonyms such as Rex Cole's Mountaineers they played until 1932 again numerous title.

With Fields Hall worked until the end of the 1930s continued to meet, but little is known about his further career known. In 1939 he joined the ASCAP. Hall died in 1954 at the age of 56 years in his hometown of New York.

Discography

Due to extensive Halls activity as a studio musician, it is almost impossible to create a complete list of his singles. Therefore, only re-releases are specify in the following.