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Jack Teagarden: King of the Jazz Trombone

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Jack Teagarden, born in Vernon, Texas, in 1905, was the most famous white jazz trombonist of the pre-swing era. Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller would soon eclipse Teagarden’s fame, but in the earliest days of jazz music, Teagarden was the trombone king. Teagarden expanded the role of the trombone from its strict “tailgate” function found in the early days

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