[Dixielandjazz] Chuck Mackey

[Charles Suhor]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:50 AM, dingle at baldwin-net.com wrote:
>
> To break the string, I will  ask this: Whatever happened to Chuck 
> Mackay. Wonderful trumpeter in the Charlie Teagarden style that worked 
> with some west coast bands and made a few recordings on Jump Label. He 
> worked for several years with my father, Red Ingle, but sort of 
> dropped off the radar in the years since. He had a wonderful lyrical 
> style refelcting his affection for Charlie T,  with whose family Chuck 
> was partly raised in Texas. Last I heard he had been selling insurance 
> in New York State somewhere, but that was hearsay.
>

I haven't researched his present whereabouts, but IU'm pretty sure his 
name was spelled Mackey. I'd be interested, BTW, if anyone knows about 
CD redos of the fine old Jump Label records--had them on 78rpm and 
haven't seen them since.

Charlie Suhor