[Dixielandjazz] Jack Teagarden

[Marty Nichols]

I am more sad than angry to add that there has been another blatant faux pas concerning tributes to artists whom would be celebrating their 100th birthday.
  I have the CD "Spirit Of The Horn, Slide Hampton And The World Of Trombones",
  issued in 2002. Incredibly, in my opinion, the album has a track called "Tribute Suite". It presents a pairing of "Lament" JJ's tune, and "Basin St. Blues." What's incredible to me is that the "Tribute" is to JJ Johnson and , no, not Jack but Louis!
  Slide Hampton plays the solo on "Lament" and he and Benny Powell solo on Basin St. Blues. Go figure that one. 
  The N.Y. Sun article mentions a "swan song" for Jack in the album "Think well of me." I nominate Jack's 1963 Concert in CA only about 4 months before his death in  which
  he played and sang "A Hundred Years From Today."
  Marty Nichols
   
   
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:18:27 -0500
From: Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
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  Here's a 100th Anniversary piece on Jack Teagarden that was printed in 
the NY Sun in August 29, 2005. Even if it was posted on the DJML back then, 
it is well worth repeating.
  Cheers,
Steve Barbone
   
  Jack Teagarden at 100 - by Will Friedwald
New York Sun, August 29, 2005
  He was born 100 years ago this month, yet you'd never know it. The jazz
world seems indifferent. There is no comprehensive CD reissue package 
--
although there are a few worthy-looking imports from England. Not one 
of the
major concert producers in the metropolitan area has announced an
appropriate Tea Party.It's not surprising that Teagarden's centennial should be shouted less
loudly from the hilltops than that of Duke Ellington in 1999, Armstrong 
in
2001, Bix Beiderbecke in 2003, or Count Basie and Fats Waller last 
year. The
trombone itself seems to have lost its star quality. Not only is 
Teagarden
absent from the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame -- situated in Jazz at
Lincoln Center's Rose Hall -- but so are all other purveyors of the
instrument. I suspect this has less to do with the trombone's glorious
history than its shaky presentThough Tea had two years to go when he taped 
"Think
Well of Me" in 1962, I always think of that lovely album as his swan 
song."