Jack Bland

Jack Bland ( born May 8, 1899 in Sedalia (Missouri ), † 1968 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz bandleader and banjo player.

Jack Bland founded with Red McKenzie and Dick Slevin 1924, the Mound City Blue Blowers; whose first Hiterfolge in Chicago and the Midwest of the United States of " Arkansas Blues" and the Blue Blues were. With Eddie Lang was the formation in 1924 on a tour of England. End of the 20 Bland began amplified cello and guitar playing. After the departure of Lang's 1929 Bland played with Gene Krupa, Muggsy Spanier, Eddie Condon and Coleman Hawkins, who worked in the 1930s with the ensemble. besides, he was employed as a session musician in New York City, including Billy Banks ' Orchestra, Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen and Zutty Singleton. Recordings were also provided with a separate group, the Rhythm Makers (or Rhythmakers ); Pops Foster and Fats Waller worked occasionally with it.

In the 1940s, Bland played in the jazz clubs of the 52nd Street, so Jimmy Ryan's club with Red Allen and Singleton, also with Edmond Hall, Vic Dickenson, Ike Quebec and Hot Lips Page; some of these sessions were recorded by Milt Gabler and appeared on Commodore Records. From 1942 to 1944 he played with Art Hodes and even with Muggsy Spanier; 1944 to 1950 he led his own band and worked on recordings by George Wettling and Marty Marsala. In the 1950s he moved to Los Angeles, withdrew from the music business and worked as a taxi driver. He died there in 1968.