Jimmie Noone

Jimmie ( Jimmy ) Noone ( born April 23, 1895 in Cut Off in New Orleans, † April 19, 1944 in Los Angeles ) was American clarinetist of traditional jazz. Noone, whose sound is described as a soft and romantic, was next to Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet as one of the best clarinetists of the 1920s.

Life and work

After lessons from Lorenzo Tio and the only 13 -year-old Sidney Bechet Noone had first local success in his hometown of New Orleans ( he played in the Olympia Brass Band with Freddie Keppard ), but he also left in 1917 and went to Chicago to with Freddie Keppard in the original Creole Orchestra ( Bill Johnson) to play. After the collapse of this band a year later he became a member in the band of King Oliver. In 1920 he joined Doc Cook 's Dreamland Orchestra and remained there for six years. From the autumn of 1926, he led his own band at the Apex Club in Chicago ( " Jimmie Noone 's Apex Club Orchestra" ). 1927 and 1928 Earl Hines was a member of his band. 1929 was the music composed by Noone " Apex Blues". In 1931, he was also briefly in New York. In March 1931 he had a hit for Vocalion in the Billboard Top 30 with the sung by Mildred Bailey " Travlin ' All Alone " (# 20). Also in the 1930s he led his own band in Chicago in the Apex Club, in 1939, Joe Williams occurred. Lonnie Johnson also played in his band. In the course of the onset of New Orleans Revival in 1940 he went to Kid Ory to Los Angeles. He died there in 1944 suddenly of a heart attack.