Brick Fleagle

Jacob Roger " Brick" Fleagle ( born August 22, 1906 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, † 15 April 1992) was an American jazz guitarist and arranger of swing.

Fleagle attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and played banjo since 1923 in Florida. He came up with a Vaudeville Band to New York, where he played in dance bands guitar. From 1926 he played with Rex Stewart, with whom he befriended and with whom he recorded frequently. 1934/35 he had his own band at the Arcadia Ballroom in New York.

In the 1930s he was asked to arrange for top big bands such as those of Chick Webb, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, Rex Stewart and Duke Ellington. He worked regularly for Ellington, who let him play on some recordings as a guitarist. He copied as an arranger and often the notes and turned it into a business in 1946.

He still occasionally with his own band. This met by Time Magazine in 1945 once a week to a jazz workshop in which 16 musicians from top big bands playing new unusual arrangements.

He took on a lot with Rex Stewart and among other things, Jack Teagarden, Sonny Greer, Billy Taylor, Timme Rosenkrantz, JC Higginbotham, Sandy Williams, and Buck Clayton.