Charlie Irvis

Charles Irvis, mostly Charlie Irvis written, ( born May 6, 1899 in New York City, † 1939) was an American jazz trombonist, who was an early member of the band by Duke Ellington.

Irvis played with Bubber Miley in a youth band, accompanied from 1920 to 1921, the blues singer Lucille Hegamin with their " Blue Flame Syncopators " and entered afterwards on with pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith, before 1924 Duke Ellington's " Washingtonians " met ( at that time the band for a month under the direction of Elmer Snowden ), the predecessor of his friend Tricky Sam Nanton. With the trumpeter Bubber Miley also befriended he was involved in the development of the " Jungle Sounds " at Ellington ( Growl - effects). The end of 1926 he left Ellington to the " Paradise Ten" Charlie " Fess " Johnson to play ( 1927-1928 ). 1929 to 1930 he played with Jelly Roll Morton ( of which there are recordings). In the 1920s he recorded with Clarence Williams and Fats Waller. In 1931 he was briefly in the band of his childhood friend Bubber Miley and then at Elmer Snowden, but then disappeared in the course of the 1930s from the music scene.