Jimmy McPartland

Jimmy McPartland (James Dugald McPartland) (March 15 1907, Chicago, Illinois - March 13, 1991, Port Washington, New York) was an American cornetist and one of the originators of Chicago Jazz. McPartland worked with Eddie Condon, Art Hodes,...

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...entertaining Allied troops. While touring with USO shows in Belgium, she met and began performing with Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1944. The two were soon married, and played at their own wedding on a military base in Germany.

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...1920s. Sullivan's recording career began late in 1927 when he joined McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans. Other musicians included Jimmy McPartland, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Jim Lanigan and Gene Krupa. In 1933, he joined Bing Crosby as...

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...I didn't take the money. AAJ: While entertaining troops during World War II you met your soon to be husband, cornetist Jimmy McPartland. He was steeped more in traditional Dixieland jazz and you more progressive. Was there any sort of...

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...Music, where he studied composition as well as bass and piano, Kellaway moved to New York and joined Jimmy McPartland's band. That's how he and Marian McPartland met for the first time. After several years of gigging on bass, Kellaway...

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Dick McPartland (May 18, 1905 - Nov 30, 1957) was the older brother of Jimmy McPartland, and he was an early member of the Austin High School Gang that helped establish Chicago-style jazz in the 1920s. McPartland started out on the violin...

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After finding out that the Roseland engagement was to be cancelled in November, Beiderbecke left the group to play with Jean Goldkette. Jimmy McPartland eventually replaced him, and they recorded yet again for Gennett in December before taking...

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...Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Studs and Marian McPartland were good friends, having first met in Chicago when cornetist Jimmy McPartland introduced his new bride/piano player to the Windy City scene. Though McPartland appeared...

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...must be the envy of younger musicians. Dedicating her opener, "Royal Garden Blues," to its composer, her husband, the late cornetist Jimmy McPartland, she played with her customary clean and polished flourish. From her new Concord CD,...

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...birthday _ with the traditional jazz tune "Royal Garden Blues," which she used to play in the band led by her late husband, cornetist Jimmy McPartland. The British-born pianist met the Chicago jazzman when they were entertaining troops in...

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