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The Austin High School Gang was the name given to a group of young, white musicians from the West Side of Chicago, who all attended Austin High School during the early 1920s. They rose to prominence as pioneers of the Chicago Style in the 1920s, which was modeled on a hurried version of New Orleans Jazz .
Across the street from Austin was an ice cream parlor known as “The Spoon and the Straw.”. The boys dropped in there often, as did other students from their high school, and usually someone had a nickel to feed the automatic phonograph. One day they made a tremendous discovery.
Austin High Gang. Chicago-style jazz began on the far West Side when six student musicians from Austin High School got together at a local ice cream parlor to listen to their favorite hot music—jazz. After they discovered the 1922 recordings of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK), they made a collective decision to pursue jazz careers.
10 de may. de 2023 · The Austin High Gang (or the Austin High School Gang, depending on who’s talking) didn’t necessarily call themselves that—at first they took the name “the Blue Friars” after the...
16 de jun. de 2020 · Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Bud Freeman - Unheralded and Too Often Overlooked. © Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “One of the legendary Austin High School Gang, the elegant Chicagoan, was the first significant tenor saxophonist, a lighter but certainly not pallid Coleman Hawkins.
31 de ago. de 2022 · The Austin High School Gang, a group of teenagers in Chicago attending Austin High School in the 1920’s, became smitten with the jazz of the day and, along with some of their friends, proceeded to form a band, from whose ranks several eventually reached national and later international acclaim: Frank Teschemacher, Jimmy McPartland, Bud ...
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, Tough was a friend of Bud Freeman, who was part of a group of musicians known as the Austin High School Gang in Chicago. In 1925, he became a professional musician, playing with Jack Gardner , Art Kassel, Sig Meyers, and Husk O'Hare's Wolverines.
