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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 School Gang est un orchestre d'amateurs fondé vers 1920, à Chicago 1. Des figures majeures du Chicago Jazz en ont fait partie, dont le saxophoniste ténor Bud Freeman, le clarinettiste Frank Teschemacher et le cornettiste Jimmy McPartland .
31 août 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 ...
10 mai 2023 · A group of white kids from Chicago's west side, who came to be known as the Austin High Gang, ran with the innovations of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and other Black New Orleans...
Austin High Gang. Blue Note Jazz Club, c.1950s. 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.
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.
