Frankie Trumbauer

Frank ( Frankie, Tram ) Trumbauer (* May 30, 1901 in Carbondale, Illinois, † June 11, 1956 in Kansas City, Kansas ) was an American jazz musician who played the rare C -Melody Saxophone et al.

Life and work

Trumbauer is particularly known for his recordings he made ​​in the late 1920s with the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, as his first chart success, " Singing the Blues" in February 1927. He started in several bands in the Midwest, was the musical director of the orchestra of Jean Gold chain and then headed his own orchestra in St. Louis, where also played Beiderbecke. Both then played with gold chain, Adrian Rollini and from 1927 in the orchestra of Paul Whiteman, where Trumbauer remained until 1932 in order to briefly then lead his own band. 1931 came the first recording of Hoagy Carmichael play " Georgia on My Mind" in the top 30 mid-1930s he also worked with Jack Teagarden and then had his own band in California. During World War II he worked as a test pilot. After the war he played in the NBC Orchestra, but then pursued a career in the aviation authority.

Together with Bix Beiderbecke, Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell, and he is regarded as one of the musicians who introduced jazz ballads playing, which significantly differed from the previously common " hot " and blues - game species. So he holds a prominent stylistic role, because it is one of the first musicians in the jazz started to include the influence of classical European music, especially the romance. Its reminiscent of the later cool jazz style has particularly affected the young Lester Young.

• The Complete Okeh and Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden Sessions 1924-36

( Mosaic - 2001) 7 CDs, inter alia, with Miff Mole, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Russell, Bing Crosby, Eddie Miller, Ray Bauduc, Matty Matlock, Fats Waller, Charlie Teagarden, Rod Cless, Bud Freeman, Benny Goodman, Johnny Mince, Artie Shaw