Chauncey Morehouse

Chauncey Morehouse ( born March 11, 1902 in Niagara Falls, † 3 November 1980 in Medford ( New Jersey)) was an American jazz drummer.

He grew up in Chambersburg up in Pennsylvania and learned drums, piano and banjo. With his father he played in silent film. In high school, he had his own band (Versatile Five, 1919); 1920 to 1923 he played in the orchestra of Paul Specht, with whom he toured in Europe ( London) in 1923, and was a member of the band formed from musicians of his orchestra The Georgians by Specht. From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the orchestra of Jean Gold Chain, 1927, the short-lived band of Adrian Rollini and 1928/29, at Don Vorhees. From 1929 he was a studio musician for radio and television in New York City. Only in the 1970s, he turned back to jazz and played on the Tribute to Bix ​​concert of the New Port Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and on the Bix Memorial Festival in Davenport.

He took with gold chain, Frankie Trumbauer, the Dorsey Brothers, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Irving Mills, Hoagy Carmichael and Joe Venuti.

Morehouse developed his own drums and drums, which were prepared at the Leedy Drum Company. For example, he played in his own band in 1938 with chromatic coordinated percussion. He took in 1937 and 1938 under his own name.