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Glenn Miller and Teagarden collaborated to provide lyrics and a verse to Spencer Williams' Basin Street Blues, which in that amended form became one of the numbers that Teagarden played until the end of his days. In the late 1920s he recorded with such notable bandleaders and sidemen as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn Miller, and Eddie Condon.

His singing is best remembered for duets with Louis Armstrong and Johnny Mercer. He is often mentioned as one of the best jazz vocalists of the era his singing style is like his trombone playing, in much the same way that Louis Armstrong sang like he played trumpet. Within a year of the commencement of his recording career, he became a regular vocalist, first doing blues material ('Beale Street Blues', for example), and later doing popular songs. By 1928 he played for the Ben Pollack band. In 1927, he went to New York City where he worked with several bands. In the mid-1920s he started traveling widely around the United States in a quick succession of different bands. Chief among his contributions to the language of jazz trombonists was his ability to interject the blues or merely a 'blue feeling' into virtually any piece of music.īy 1920 Teagarden was playing professionally in San Antonio, including with the band of pianist Peck Kelley. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-bebop era – Pee Wee Russell once called him 'the best trombone player in the world' – and did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the old tailgate style role of the early New Orleans brass bands. Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. ''Jack-Armstrong' Blues' by the V-Disc All Stars, featuring Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong, V-Disc, U.S.

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