Ed Kirkeby

Ed Kirkeby ( born October 10, 1891 † June 12, 1978 ) was an American bandleader and music manager.

Life and work

Kirkeby was representative from 1916 and from 1917 a producer at Columbia Records for jazz and was manager of the California Ramblers, at the emergence of 1920 he was involved. In 1926 he also began on their recordings as a singer performing and recording with musicians led the Ramblers under the pseudonym Ted Wallace. His band had at the pictures different names like Five Birmingham Babies, The Varsity Eight, Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys, The Goofus Five, The Little Ramblers, The Vagabonds, and he took her under Pseudonyman as Ted Wallace, Ed Kirkeby Wallace and Eddie Lloyd on. 1930 to 1932 he directed numerous studio sessions for ARC.

He managed in the 1930s, the Pickens Sisters, and worked from 1935 for RCA Victor, for which he reissued the California Ramblers, among others, and as Ted Wallace recorded, and from 1938 on NBC ( as a booking agent for bands ). From 1938 until his death in 1943 he was the manager of Fats Waller, for whom he also built up an archive that came to the Jazz Archive Rutgers University. He remained active until 1977 as Manager (among other things by Pat Flowers and the Deep River Boys).

He wrote a biography of Fats Waller, Is not Misbehavin ' (New York 1966 and at Da Capo, 1976 ).