Jack McVea

Jack McVea ( born November 5, 1914 in Los Angeles when John Vivian McVea, † December 27, 2000 ) was an American jazz musician (baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone and clarinet) in the areas of swing, blues and rhythm and blues

Jack McVeas father was the banjo player Satchel McVea, the banjo was Jack McVeas first instrument; a musician in the band of his father taught him to play saxophone. He began his career in local bands in Los Angeles, as in Dootsie Williams ' Harlem Dukes and then as a baritone saxophonist in 1940 member of Lionel Hampton's orchestra in 1942, he participated in recordings of T -Bone Walker ( ' Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday is Just As Bad ) "). To hear McVea was also at "Slim 's Jam " by Slim Gaillard, who recorded the title in 1945 with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

McVea also launched in October 1946, the studio band when shooting for Black & White Records, as the title "Open the Door, Richard! " Was recorded, the McVeas should be best-known titles, and also he took up with Wynonie Harris. From 1944, he worked with his own bands and as a studio musician at MGM, he also played in 1944 at Jazz at the Philharmonic with Illinois Jacquet, Shorty Sherock, Nat Cole and Les Paul. From 1966 to the early 1990s, when he sat down to rest, he played traditional jazz in the band The Royal Street Bachelors in New Orleans Square Disneyland.

Swell

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
• Arnold Shaw: Honkers and Shouters. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1978 ISBN 0-02-061740-2
• RJ Smith, " Richard Speaks! Chasing a Tune from the Chitlin Circuit to the Mormon Tabernacle, " p. 75-89 in Eric Weisbard, ed, This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 ( cloth ), ISBN 0-674-01344-1