Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 29th Oct 2019

JACK

This week's Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is, following last week's Kid Ory feature, also a tromobonist. He is credited with being the most important pre-bop trombonist in jazz, who took trombone away from Kid Ory's tailgate style. It's Jack Teagarden.

ONLINE

This week's Phantom Dancer will be online after the 29 October 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com. Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

TEAGARDEN

Jack Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s as well as being an engaging singer. His early career was as a sideman in the orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Paul Whiteman and lifelong friend Louis Armstrong before branching out as a bandleader in 1939. We hear his new orchestra debuting on radio in 1939 on this week's Phantom Dancer. After WWII he specialised in New Orleans jazz until his death.

START

Jack's is brother Charlie and sister Norma also became professional musicians. His father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started him on baritone horn. At age seven he had switched to trombone. His first public performances were in movie theaters, accompanying his piano playing mother.

STYLE

His trombone style was largely self-taught. He developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-bebop era. He did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the Kid Ory tailgate style of the early New Orleans brass bands.

CAREER

This week's Phantom Dancer features broadcast excerpts of Jack Teagarden between 1936-41. He had begun playing professionally as a teenager, playing with many different bands in a process that took him from his native Texas to New York City. Teagarden sought financial security during the Great Depression and signed a contract to play for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from 1933 through 1938. Jack did play and broadcast on radio in small jazz groups in the mid 30s with his brother Charlie and Frankie Trambauer as 'The Three T's.' I have played some of these radio broadcasts from the Hickory House over CBS but the sound quality is very poor.

BIG BAND

Teagarden started leading his own big band in 1939. We'll hear it's debut on 'The Fitch Summer Bandwagon'. The band was not a commercial success, and he was brought to the brink of bankruptcy.

VIDEO

This week's Phantom Dancer video of the week is film of Jack Teagarden from a 1950s Telescription playing with 'Basin Street Blues'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUpEU1irzYQ

29 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #411
107.3 2SER Tuesday 29 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 - 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 - 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944-54 Radio Dance Bands
Open + Two Spot Hop	Dean Hudson Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Blue Room Hotel Lincoln AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Nov 1944
Minding My Business	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Reid	'Spotlight Band' Mutual Network 24 Dec 1945
Ole Negra + Close	Paul Neighbours Orchestra	Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel NBC via KGHL Billings, MO 1954
Set 2	Women Singers on  Radio
Can't Help Loving That Man	Helen Forrest (voc) Billy Liebert Group	'Ford Show with Tennessee Ernie Ford' Audition Disc 1960
Cry Me a River	Julie London (voc) Bobby Troup Group	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Cameo WRCA NBC NY 1956
Once In a While + Close	Dinah Shore	'MUM Show' KECA Blue LA 1944
Set 3	Modern Sounds 1947-60
Open + Trajectory	Stan Kenton Orchestra	'Innovations 1950' Radio Transcription 1950
Jack, Jack, Jack	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Fran Warren	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WJZ ABC NY 23 Jun 1947
Cool By The Pool	Gilbert Lacombe Septet	CBC Monteal 1960
Set 4	Jack Teagarden
Announcer's Blues	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (tb solo) Jack Teagarden	'Paul Whiteman's Musical Varieties' WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Jan 1936
Somebody Nobody Knows + Octoroon	Jack Teagarden Orchestra	'Fitch Summer Bandwagon' WABC CBS NY Nov 1939
Mr Jessie	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden + Band	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 27 Dec 1941
Set 5	Phil Harris Orch 1933
Open + Love Me Tonight	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Mill	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Strange Interlude	Phil Harris Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
From AM to PM + Close	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Rhythm Kings	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 6	1949-55 Swing Bands
Leap Frog	Les Brown Orchestra	Radio Transcription Sep 1949
Woodchoppers' Ball	Woody Herman Orchestra	'All Star Parade of Bands' Peony Park Omaha NE WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Moonlight in Vermont	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Patty Ryan	Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ ABC 19 Jun 1955
Lullaby of Birdland + Close	Count Basie Orchestra	'Stars of Jazz' Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953
Set 7	1943-45 Dance Band Radio Transcriptions. Read the Horace Heidt story from a 2017 Phantom Dancer
Doodle-Doo-Doo (open ) + Candy	Art Kassels and his Kassels-in-the-Air (voc) Glria Hart	Radio Transcription 1945
History of Music	Horace Heidt Orchestra (narr) Horace Heidt	Radio Transcription 1943
Bell Bottom Trousers	Art Kassels and his Kassels-in-the-Air (voc) Trio	Radio Transcription 1945
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?	Horace Heidt Orchestra (voc) Horace Heidt	Radio Transcription 1943
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
What Is Bop?	Symphony Sid	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Oo-Bop-Sha-Bam	Charlie Parker (voc) Band	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949