Charlie Creath

Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath ( born December 30, 1890 in Ironton, Missouri, † October 23, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American trumpeter, saxophonist, accordion player and bandleader of the jazz tradition.

Life and work

Creath played in traveling circuses and in theater bands in the 1900s, and moved in 1919 to St. Louis. Where he led bands on the steamboats of Streckfus Company, which went on the Mississippi between New Orleans and St. Louis. His formations were there so popular that he led in the 1920s, several bands under his own name, partly run by his sister Marge ( 1899-1982 ). On the ship SS Capitol, he led with Fate Marable in 1927 a band together. He and Marable played ( according to his illness ) again from 1935 to 1938 together; at the end of the decade Creath opened a nightclub in Chicago. During the Second World War he worked in an aircraft factory and retired for health reasons in 1945 from professional life back.

Among the members of Creaths bands included, apart from his brother- Zutty Singleton, Ed Allen, Pops Foster, Jerome Don Pasquall, William Thornton Blue and Lonnie Johnson. As a leader he took 1924-1927 on for Okeh Records.

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