Sterling Bose
Sterling Bose | |
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| Born | Sterling Belmont Bose September 23, 1906 Florence, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | July 23, 1958 (aged 51) St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Musician |
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| Years active | 1920s–1950s |
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Sterling Belmont "Bozo" Bose[a] (September 23, 1906 – July 23, 1958)[2][1] was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. His work with Glenn Miller (1935–1938) in a trumpet–violin duo, and on various albums from 1937 to 1947, in a trombone duo, proved him an early proponent in double instrumentation.[3] His style was heavily influenced by Bix Beiderbecke and changed little over the course of his life.
Biography
[edit]Sterling Bose was born on September 23, 1906, in Florence, Alabama.[2] His early experience came with Dixieland jazz bands in his native Alabama before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1923. He played with the Crescent City Jazzers, later renamed the Arcadian Serenaders, and with Jean Goldkette's Orchestra in 1927 until 1928,[2] after the departure of Beiderbecke. Following this, he worked in the house band at radio station WGN in Chicago before joining Ben Pollack from 1930 to 1933.[2] He also worked with Eddie Sheasby in Chicago but moved to New York City in 1933. He had many gigs in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, including time with Joe Haymes (1934–35) and Tommy Dorsey (1935), Ray Noble (1936), Benny Goodman (1936), Lana Webster, Glenn Miller (1937), Bob Crosby (1937–39), Bobby Hackett (1939), Bob Zurke, Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman (1942), George Brunies, Bobby Sherwood (1943), Miff Mole, Art Hodes, Horace Heidt (1944), and Tiny Hill (1946).[2] Following these engagements, he did some further freelancing in Chicago and New York, then moved to Florida in 1948, setting up his own bands there.
Bose suffered from an extended period of illness in the 1950s and eventually committed suicide in July 1958 in St. Petersburg, Florida.[1][4]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Smith, Hal; Barnhart, Jeff; Hancock, Colin (July 31, 2021). "Sterling Bose: Forgotten Hot Jazz Cornetist". The Syncopated Times. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Larkin, Colin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1st ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 298/9. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ↑ "Sterling Bose | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
- ↑ "Jazz Musician Sterling Bose Found Shot". Tampa Bay Times. June 12, 1958. p. 25. Retrieved September 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
General references
[edit]- Yanow, Scott. "Sterling Bose Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved March 10, 2008.
External links
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- 1906 births
- 1958 deaths
- Musicians from Florence, Alabama
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- American jazz cornetists
- 20th-century American trumpeters
- Jazz musicians from Alabama
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- Suicides by firearm in Florida
- Arcadian Serenaders members