Snoozer Quinn

Edwin " Snoozer " Quinn McIntosh ( born October 18, 1906 in McComb, Mississippi, † 1949 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American jazz guitarist of the Oldtime Jazz.

Life and work

Snoozer Quinn learned from the age of seven years, the mandolin, guitar and violin playing. When his family moved to Bogalusa moved in Louisiana, he worked, eleven years old, already as a professional musician. At the age of seventeen he became a member of the Paul English Travelling shows and played a short time later in the orchestra by Matt Britt.

In 1925 he became a member of the band of Kelley Peck, Peck 's Bad Boys, with whom he played in Shreveport, and entered into the following years, in the area around New Orleans. On the recommendation of Bix Beiderbecke, he was hired by Paul Whiteman. Snoozer Quinn was known for his virtuosity with many fellow musicians (such as Eddie Lang, Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Frank Trumbauer, Joe Venuti ) legendary him on late-night jam sessions after his play in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in New York end of the 1920s years heard. After a short engagement with Paul Whiteman in New York, he returned, already sick, in 1929 to his native New Orleans back. There are few photographs of him, essentially the shots that his friend, the cornetist Johnny Wiggs (who also plays cornet) shortly before his death made with him when Quinn was already in a hospital because of his tuberculosis. You can hear Clarinet Marmalade, Singing the Blues, Snoozer 's Telephone Blues, Georgia on My Mind / Smoke Gets in My Eyes, Snoozer 's Wanderings, You Took Advantage of Me, Out of Nowhere and Nobody's Sweetheart.

The eight sides of the plate, which he made in 1925 for Victor, are missing, as are the trio recordings Singing the Blues by Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer in 1929 for Columbia. There are also recordings with the great Paul Whiteman Orchestra, where he played a few months 1928/29, in whose lush arrangements he is, however, difficult to hear, and on a recording with the hillbilly singer ( and later governor of Louisiana) Jimmie Davis of 1931. Moreover, he is said to have taken four solo pieces, 1928, in San Antonio. There may also have (now also lost ) recordings for RCA.