Frank Teschemacher

Frank Teschemacher ( born March 13, 1906 in Kansas City, † March 1, 1932 in Chicago) was an American jazz clarinetist, white, the traditional jazz played in the Chicago style. In addition to clarinet, he played several other instruments ( banjo, violin, saxophone, piano).

Life

Teschemacher grew up as the youngest of three children in well-off suburbs of Chicago to Austin, where the family moved in 1912 ( his father was a railway employee). He first took piano lessons, taught himself the banjo playing with themselves and learned violin before he moved to the Austin High School for alto saxophone. As a member of the " Austin High School Gang", which were young musicians who came together after the example of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, he played in the Blue Friars band (named after the Speakeasy Friar's Inn, where the Rhythm Kings played ). Also present were Jimmy McPartland and his brother Dick, Bud Freeman, Dave Tough, Jim Lanigan and pianist Dave North. There Teschemacher switched to clarinet, which brought him closer Freeman. In 1923 she played under the name Husk O'Hare 's Wolverines and Teschemacher left school to devote himself entirely to jazz career. He has worked with numerous bands in dance halls and amusement parks (such as with Wingy Manone ) and participated in the famous recordings ( for Okeh ) of McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans 1927. In 1928 he took first recordings under his own name at Brunswick on ( Frank Tesche maker Chicagoans ). In the same year he married ( the marriage was in 1930 but divorced again) and he went for half a year to New York City where, among other things, in the bands of the Dorsey brothers, Ben Pollack, Red Nichols, Miff Mole and Don Redman he played. From 1929 to 1930 he again played mostly in Chicago, where he also played violin in the middle of the depression in the dance orchestras of Jan Garber and arranged. More images 1930, a successor to the Orchestra of the Rhythm Kings ( Frank Schoebel Friar 's Society Orchestra ), Ted Lewis and Wingy Manone 's Club Royal Orchestra. In 1931, he worked in the Benny Meroff Orchestra, where he met the trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, with whom he formed his own big band the following year. Her car was rammed from the side of an unlit taxi on a winter trip with Davison back from band rehearsals in the morning by 2 clock. The car skidded into a tree and Davison and Teschemacher were hurled through the windshield. Teschemacher suffered a severe skull fracture and died shortly afterwards in hospital - 12 days before his 26th birthday. Davison came too badly, but was so badly affected that he soon left Chicago.

Stylistically is Teschemacher - together with the same age Pee Wee Russell, whom he has influenced in its development - an example of the typical Chicago - style clarinet playing style, which is characterized by a compared to the New Orleans style freer harmonies, an erratic Irregular, by his contemporaries sometimes referred to as "crazy" designated by an idiosyncratic phrasing and intonation ( with squeaky, croaking, often deliberately played below the correct pitch passages) distinguished. Distinct echoes of Teschemacher and Russell are still to hear in the game especially the young Benny Goodman before in this the influence of Jimmie Noone more prominent. When listening to the clarinet and in particular Baßklarinettisten from the hard bop and free jazz field, you can feel more or less clear references to the " impressionistic " Tesche Maker Russell play, where the " cool " late work Pee Wee Russell probably represents a direct stylistic connection.