Matty Matlock

Matty Matlock (* April 27, 1907 in Paducah, Kentucky, † June 14, 1978; actually Julian Clifton Matlock ) was an American Dixieland jazz musician (clarinet, tenor saxophone), arranger and bandleader.

Matty Matlock grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and became known when he replaced Benny Goodman in 1929 in the band of Ben Pollack. He remained until 1934, when Pollack, where he worked as an arranger and clarinetist. From 1935 to 1942 he worked with Bob Crosby as a solo clarinetist ( " Who's Sorry Now ," " Fidgety Feet," 1937) as well as a saxophonist in the woodwind; he also wrote arrangements for the band, " Wolverine Blues" and "Panama". During this time he also took with Bunny Berigan ( " Who's Afraid of Love" 1937), Gene Gifford ( " Nothing But the Blues," 1938), Vic Berton and Wingy Manone on.

In 1943 he settled in California and played at the end of the 1940s in Dixieland orchestras. Throughout his career, Matlock worked as an arranger for various television shows and film soundtracks. 1958/59 he took a few albums under his own name, as Pete Kelly Let His Hair Down and And They Called It Dixieland.

Disco Graphical Notes

Albums as a bandleader

  • Dixieland ( Douglass Phono Disc)
  • Four - Button Dixie ( Douglass Phono Disc)
  • They Made It Twice As Nice As Paradise and They Called It Dixieland ( Douglass Phono Disc)
  • Matty Matlock and the Paducah Patrol The Dixieland Story ( Warner Bros. WS1318 1959)

Albums as a sideman

Lexical entry

  • John Jorgensen, Erik Wiedemann: Jazz Encyclopedia, Munich, Mosaic, 1967
  • Jazz clarinetist
  • Jazz saxophonist
  • Arranger
  • American musician
  • Born 1907
  • Died in 1978
  • Man
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