TWO BROTHERS: Armstrong & Teagarden
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG once said that
LOUIS ARMSTRONG once said that no other jazzman gave him as much pleasure to listen to as JACK TEAGARDEN, and Jack was white. Born in Vernon, Texas in 1905, Teagarden grew up fascinated by the church music in the black part of that small town. When Louie formed his small group, The All Stars, in 1946-7 Jack, already a great star in his own right, was the trombonist and featured singer. The two men sang and played together on a number of All Star dates and recordings—most notably the famous Town Hall concert of 1947--until Jack left to go back with his own small group. Fortunately, we have a few filmed records of this magnificent collaboration between two great artists who were also two great friends.
The brotherly love between these two men is evident in a B&W kinescope from the April 1958 Timex All Star jazz show in which they sang and played JEEPERS CREEPERS, and in the Bert Stern documentary shot in color at one of the Newport Jazz Festivals (1958) where they performed their incomparable show-stopper, Hoagy Carmichael's OLD ROCKIN CHAIR. Their love of performing, improvising and clowning around is in every frame of film: each man adored the way the other played, joked, and sang. They knew, of course, that they had no equals.
During the years of their collaboration (1946-1951) Louie was once asked to return to his natal city, New Orleans, to be honored for his lifetime achievement. He had not been home for years. Once there he learned that the mayor of that then segregated town would not allow him to play on a stage together with a white man. Louis met his commitment, but vowed never to return and never did. Ironically, Jack died in Louie's hometown at the Prince Conti hotel in 1964. Louie, whom many in the next generation thought of as an Uncle Tom, died seven years later at his home in Corona in Queens.
The brotherly love between these two men is evident in a B&W kinescope from the April 1958 Timex All Star jazz show in which they sang and played JEEPERS CREEPERS, and in the Bert Stern documentary shot in color at one of the Newport Jazz Festivals (1958) where they performed their incomparable show-stopper, Hoagy Carmichael's OLD ROCKIN CHAIR. Their love of performing, improvising and clowning around is in every frame of film: each man adored the way the other played, joked, and sang. They knew, of course, that they had no equals.
During the years of their collaboration (1946-1951) Louie was once asked to return to his natal city, New Orleans, to be honored for his lifetime achievement. He had not been home for years. Once there he learned that the mayor of that then segregated town would not allow him to play on a stage together with a white man. Louis met his commitment, but vowed never to return and never did. Ironically, Jack died in Louie's hometown at the Prince Conti hotel in 1964. Louie, whom many in the next generation thought of as an Uncle Tom, died seven years later at his home in Corona in Queens.
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