Austin High School Gang

The Austin High School Gang, also Austin High Gang, is the name of a group of white jazz musicians in the middle-class suburb of Austin from Chicago, the most knowledgeable of the Austin High School. They started in 1922 after the musical model of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings (by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and George Brunies ) whose pieces they einübten clock for clock according to their records, and to play Bix Beiderbecke 's The Wolverines together. In 1924, she nominated in Blue Friars, after the Friar's Inn to where the Rhythm Kings played in Chicago, and formed later under the name of their manager Husk O'Hare's Wolverines. They were soon very popular and attracted more jazz enthusiasts (white ) musicians to play with them, like Eddie Condon and the young Benny Goodman. Many white musicians of the Chicago style, which came to fame later belonged to the transition, in detail:

• Jimmy McPartland - cornet
• Dick McPartland - banjo, guitar
• Frank Teschemacher - Clarinet, Saxophone ( and other instruments)
• Bud Freeman - tenor saxophone
• Jim Lanigan - bass, tuba
• Dave North - Piano
• Dave Tough - drums ( he did not go to the Austin High, but a high-school )
• Frank Josh Billings - ( suitcase as ) drums