Pete Daily

Thaman Pierce " Pete " Daily ( born May 5, 1911 in Portland ( Indiana); † August 23, 1986 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician (cornet, valve trombone) of the Traditional Jazz ( Dixieland ) and Swing.

Daily first learned baritone horn and tuba, and then switched to cornet. From the early 1930s he played in Chicago, among others with Bud Freeman, Frank Melrose, Art Van Damme, Boyce Brown. In 1930, he took with " Jack Davies and his Kentuckians " on, in which he played bass saxophone and cornet. In 1942 he moved to the West Coast, where he played with Mike Riley and in the big band of Ozzie Nelson. After a year in the merchant marine and military service in World War II he founded in 1945 his own band " Pete Daily and his Chicagoans ," with whom he recorded (with Jump, Capitol, no recordings after 1954 ) and in the 1950s in various night clubs Hollywood had longer exposures ( as in Sardis, the Royal Room, The Hangover or the Beverly Caverns ). In his band were Rosy McHargue (clarinet, C- melody sax ), Bud Wilson, Joe Rushton, Don Owens and Red Cooper. Daily was in the 1960s, a time in his native Indiana, where he learned to play on the valve trombone and played in the band of Smoky Stover. He was active until the 1970s. 1979 forced him to retire a stroke to occur.

He was married and had six children.

His band is also seen in the movie " Meet the Dixieland bands " (with the Firehouse Five Plus Two, and Red Nichols ).