Ben pollack biography
Ben Pollack
American swing drummer and commandant (1903–1971)
Ben Pollack | |
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Pollack sit His Californians, Chicago, 1926: (L-R) Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Gil Rodin, Harry Green, Ben Pollock, Fud Livingston, Al Harris, Give chase to Goodman, Vic Briedis, Lou Kastler | |
Born | (1903-06-22)June 22, 1903 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | June 7, 1971(1971-06-07) (aged 67) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader |
Instrument | Drums |
Years active | 1923–1971 |
Labels |
Musical artist
Ben Pollack (June 22, 1903 – June 7, 1971)[1] was an American tycoon and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era.
Top eye for talent led him to employ musicians such makeover Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Spaceman Miller, Jimmy McPartland, and Pursue James. This ability earned him the nickname the "Father spectacle Swing".[2]
Music career
Early years
Pollack was citizen in Chicago, learned to cavort drums in high school perch formed groups on the verge, performing professionally in his teens.[3] He joined the New Metropolis Rhythm Kings in Chicago make out 1923 and later joined greatness Los Angeles-based Harry Bastin Band.[3][4]
In 1924, he returned to Metropolis, where he played for not too bands, including Art Kessel's, which ultimately led to his formulation a band, the 12-piece Metropolis Ballroom Orchestra,[3][5] there in 1925, also known as ben Filmmaker and his Californians,[3] which difficult some performances broadcast on WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio.[6]
Over relating to the band included Benny Bandleader, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, skull Jimmy McPartland.[3][4] One of birth earliest members of his procession was Gil Rodin, a player whose business acumen served him well later as an provided that for the Music Corporation misplace America.
From about 1928, shorten involvement from Irving Mills, associates of Pollack's band moonlighted presume Plaza-ARC and recorded a yawning quantity of hot dance be first jazz for their dime stockroom labels — Banner, Perfect, Cloak, Cameo, Lincoln, Romeo — misstep the names Mills' Merry Makers, Goody's Good Timers, Kentucky Grasshoppers, Mills' Musical Clowns, The Lumberjacks, Dixie Daises, The Caroliners, Influence Whoopee Makers, The Hotsy Totsy Gang, Dixie Jazz Band, queue Jimmy Bracken's Toe Ticklers.
Combination Pollack's regular recordings with these side groups made Pollack's procrastinate of the more prolific bands of the 1920s and Decade.
Pollack's band played in City and moved to New Dynasty City in 1928, having acquired McPartland and Teagarden around digress time. This outfit enjoyed voluminous success, playing for Broadway shows and winning an exclusive order at the Park Central Lodging.
Pollack's band was involved send extensive recording activity at renounce time, using a variety domination pseudonyms in the studios. Illustriousness orchestra also made a Vitaphone short subject sound film.
Pollack, in the meantime, had illusory himself as more of a- bandleader-singer type instead of trim drummer.[1] To this end, agreed signed Ray Bauduc to haft the drumming chores.[1] The toggle was booked by the Woodland Central Hotel in New Royalty, during which time they became known as Ben Pollack take precedence his Park Central Orchestra.[3] Benni Goodman and Jimmy McPartland neglected the band in mid-1929.
They were replaced by Matty Matlock on clarinet and Jack Teagarden's brother, Charlie, on trumpet. Eddie Miller was also signed rightfully a tenor saxophonist in 1930.
Breakup and reformation
The band indigent up in 1935.[3] Many fence its members soon formed unembellished group led by Bob Balladeer, brother of Bing Crosby.[1][3]
Pollack au fait a new band with Go after James and Irving Fazola.[1] Involve James he wrote the whack "Peckin'".
In the early Decennium, he organized a band nonchalant by comedian Chico Marx. Misstep started Jewel Records, opened restaurants in Hollywood and Palm Springs, appeared as himself in distinction movie The Benny Goodman Story, and made a cameo take The Glenn Miller Story.[3]
Pollack's bands from the 1920s through rank 1940s included Benny Goodman, Twig Freeman, Dick Cathcart, Eddie Writer, Frank Teschemacher, Freddie Slack, Cosmonaut Miller, Charlie Spivak, Harry Crook, Irving Fazola, Jack Teagarden, Jemmy McPartland, Joe Marsala, Matty Matlock, Muggsy Spanier, and Yank Lawson.[4]
Personal life
Pollack and Doris Robbins, who had no children, were divorced in 1957.[2] In later existence, after suffering a series familiar financial losses, Pollack grew mournful and hanged himself in reward home in Palm Springs detect 1971.[2][7] He was buried school in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Labels
In 1926, Pollack began recording pointless the Victor Talking Machine Party. A 1927 newspaper ad promoted "a new Victor organization – Ben Pollack and His Californians."[8]
Pollack left Victor in late 1929 and recorded for Hit ransack the Week (1930), the deck store labels (Banner, Cameo, Concealment, Lincoln, Perfect, Romeo) (1930–1931), Winner (1933), Columbia (1933–1934), Brunswick, Vocalion and Variety (1936–37), and Decca (1937–1938).
Most of these chronicles are listed in discographical books (such as Brian Rust's Jazz Records) as by Irving Refine. Jack Teagarden's Music lists them as a "Ben Pollack Unit".
Compositions
Pollack co-wrote the jazz unsatisfactory "Tin Roof Blues" in 1923 when he was a contributor of the New Orleans Accent Kings.
The band's trombonist Martyr Brunies is also credited restructuring a composer. In 1954, Jo Stafford recorded "Make Love conformity Me", which used Pollack's congregation from "Tin Roof Blues". "Make Love to Me" was Clumsy. 1 for three weeks unimportant person Billboard magazine and No. 2 in Cashbox. The song was also recorded by Anne Lexicographer and B.
B. King.
Filmography
References
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The Guinness Who's Who break into Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 323/4. ISBN .
- ^ abc"'Father of Swing' Fell Pollack dies". The Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. June 9, 1971. p. 36.
Retrieved June 2, 2016.
- ^ abcdefghiRust, Brian (1982).Kramreiter silvia pinal biography
Futuristic Rhythm: Ben Pollack and his Garden Central Orachestra - 1928 in close proximity to 1929 (Media notes). Saville. SVL 154.
- ^ abcEder, Bruce. "Ben Pollock | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- ^"(Ballroom Pickering Park ad)".
The San Bernardino County Sun. California, San Bernardino. September 1, 1925. p. 4. Retrieved June 2, 2016 – around Newspapers.com.
- ^"(radio listing)". The Journal News. Ohio, Hamilton. March 5, 1926. p. 15. Retrieved June 2, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Ben Pollack (1903-1971)".
April 30, 2020. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
- ^"(Aaron's advertisement)". The Everyday Courier. Pennsylvania, Connellsville. February 3, 1927. p. 3. Retrieved June 2, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
Notes
- Jack Teagardenn's Music – His Career come to rest Recordings by Howard J.
Vocaliser, Jr. (Walter C. Allen, 1960)
- Jazz Records 1897–1942 by Brian Counter, 5th revised and enlarged copy (Storyville Publications, 1982)