Teddy Weatherford

Teddy Weatherford ( born October 11, 1903 in Pocahontas, West Virginia, † April 25, 1945 in Calcutta) was an American pianist of the swing of the Stride Piano Stila.

Teddy Weatherford was born in Pocahontas, Virginia and grew up in neighboring Bluefield, West Virginia. From 1915 to 1920 he lived in New Orleans, where he learned the jazz piano playing. Then he moved to Chicago, where he worked with the bands of Erskine Tate, Louis Armstrong and Johnny Dodds. He was a role model for the young Earl Hines.

Weatherford later emigrated to the United States, first moved to Amsterdam, then to Asia, where he worked in Calcutta as a pianist in 1926. In 1929 he played in Shanghai. In the early 1930s he led a band at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay. He also played cricket in Smith's band in Jakarta. In 1937 he took over the management of this band in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka), the same year in Paris made ​​recordings for the label Swing. At the beginning of the 1940s he had his own band in Calcutta, where he also made radio recordings for the Armed Forces Radio Service. In his band musicians played as Bridget Althea Moe, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roy Butler and Gery Scott. 1942 originated in India eight titles for EMI / Columbia, with four bass / drum accompaniment and four in octet occupation. Teddy Weatherford died of cholera at the age of only 41 years.

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  • Carlo Bohländer and Karl -Heinz Holler: Reclams jazz leader. Stuttgart, Reclam, 1977
  • Jazz Pianist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1945
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