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Jimmie Noone

Born:
Apr 23, 1895 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Died:
Apr 19, 1944 in Los Angeles

  • Alternative Name: Jimmy Noone
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Active: '20s, '30s, '40s
  • Instrument: Clarinet

Biography

Considered one of the three top New Orleans clarinetists of the 1920s (with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet), Jimmie Noone had a smoother tone than his contemporaries that appealed to players of the swing era (including Benny Goodman). He played guitar as a child, and at age 15 took clarinet lessons from Lorenzo Tio, Jr. and Sidney Bechet (the latter was only 13, shockingly enough). Noone developed quickly, and he played with Freddie Keppard (1913-1914), Buddy Petit, and the Young Olympia Band (1916), which he also led. In 1917, he went to Chicago to join Keppard's Creole band. After it broke up the following year he became a member of King Oliver's band, staying until he joined Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra (1920-1926). Although Noone recorded with Cook, it was when he started leading a band at the Apex Club that he hit his stride. By 1928, he had pianist Earl Hines and altoist Joe Poston in the unusual quintet (Poston stuck to playing melodies behind Noone), and was recording for Vocalion, creating classic music including an early version of "Sweet Lorraine" (his theme song) and "Four or Five Times." Noone worked steadily in Chicago throughout the 1930s (although he received less attention from the jazz world), and he used Charlie Shavers on some of his late-'30s recordings and welcomed the young singer Joe Williams to the bandstand; unfortunately, they never recorded together. In 1944, Noone was in Kid Ory's band on the West Coast and seemed on the brink of greater fame when he unexpectedly died. Thanks to European reissue series, Jimmie Noone's recordings are readily available on CD. His son, Jimmie Noone, Jr., suddenly emerged out of obscurity in the 1980s to play clarinet and tenor with the Cheathams. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Representative Songs:

"Apex Blues," "Sweet Lorraine," "I Know That You Know"

Representative Albums:

Apex Blues, The Jimmie Noone Collection, Vol. 1 (1928), 1934-1940

Similar Artists:

Frank Powers, King Oliver, Buster Bailey

Influences:

Wilbur Sweatman, Sidney Bechet

Followers:

Frank Powers, Omer Simeon, Frank Teschemacher, Benny Goodman

A Member of the Group:

Original Creole Band

Performed Songs By:

Byron Gay, Clifford R. Burwell, B. Rose, Harry Brooks, Joe Sanders, Victor Young, Spencer Williams, Mitchell Parish, Gus Kahn, Henry Creamer, Warren, Andy Razaf, Vincent Youmans, Jimmy McHugh, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie

Worked With:

Johnny Wells, Fayette Williams, Bud Scott, Joe Poston, Bill Newton, George Mitchell, Louis Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr, Freddie Keppard, Johnny Dodds
 
 
Wikipedia: Jimmie Noone
Jimmie Noone
Jimmie_Noone.jpg
Background information
Born April 23 1895(1895--)
Origin Flag of the United States Cut Off, Louisiana, USA
Died April 19 1944 (aged 48)
Los Angeles, California
Genre(s) Jazz, dixieland
Occupation(s) Session musician
Instrument(s) Clarinet
Years active 1912 - 1944
Associated
acts
Freddie Keppard,
Buddy Petit
Lorenzo Tio
Kid Ory
Papa Celestin
Joe "King" Oliver

Jimmie Noone (or Jimmy Noone; born April 23 1895 in Cut Off, Louisiana – died April 19 1944 in Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz clarinetist.

Background

Noone started playing guitar in his home town; at the age of 15, he switched to the clarinet and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio. By 1912, he was playing professionally with Freddie Keppard in Storyville, and played with Buddy Petit, Kid Ory, Papa Celestin, the Eagle Band, and the Young Olympia Band, before joining the Original Creole Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. The following year, he joined King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, then in 1920 joined Keppard in Doc Cooke's band which he would remain with for six years, and make early recordings with. In 1926, he started leading the band at Chicago's Apex Club. This band, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, was notable for its unusual instrumentation -- a front line consisting of just Noone and alto saxophonist/clarinetist Joe Poston, who had worked with Noone in Doc Cooke's band. The influential Pittsburgh-born pianist Earl Hines was also in the band for a time.

In 1935, Noone moved New York City to start a band and a (short lived) club with Wellman Braud. He then returned to Chicago where he played at various clubs until 1943, when he moved to Los Angeles, California. Shortly after he joined Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by Orson Welles. Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a heart attack. The Ory band, with New Orleans-born clarinetist Wade Whaley, played a blues (titled "Blues for Jimmie" by Welles) in his honor on the radio, and the number eventually became a regular feature for the Ory band.

Legacy

Noone is generally regarded as one of the greatest of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet. Noone's playing is not as blues-tinged as Dodds nor as flamboyant as Bechet, but is perhaps more lyrical and sophisticated, and certainly makes more use of "sweet" flavoring. Noone was an important influence on later clarinetists such as Artie Shaw, Irving Fazola and Benny Goodman.

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