Ben Pollack
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Biography
[Edit]Ben Pollack was a talented drummer and an even better bandleader, with a great ear for talent but none of the luck needed to hold onto his discoveries. He always worked without ever quite hitting the big time himself; but his bands of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s included such future luminaries as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland, Harry James, Yank Lawson, Muggsy Spanier, Jack Teagarden, Joe Marsala, Eddie Miller, Frank Teschemacher, Dick Cathcart, Irving Fazola, Freddie Slack, and Bud Freeman.
Pollack was born in Chicago, to a family in the fur business. He loved music, however, and took up the drums in school. He played drums in various high-school groups and an all-city band, and also picked up occasional work with professional outfits while still in his teens. Pollack became a member of the Harry Bastin Band, before moving on to work with a groundbreaking ensemble as the drummer for the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the pioneering white Dixieland ensemble, during the early '20s. Pollack was supposed to go into the family business, but decided to stay in music, and for a time he took over the Bastin band in Los Angeles.
He formed his own band in 1926, and for the next eight years he was host to some of the biggest future talents in jazz, as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy McPartland, and later, Yank Lawson and Matty Matlock passed through his lineup. The group finally broke up in December of 1934, and its membership immediately became the core of Bob Crosby's band, which went on to years of success in that capacity. Pollack turned right around, however, and put together a new band that included Harry James and Freddie Slack in its lineup.
Pollack soldiered on, never venturing far from the Dixieland style that he favored, leading bands in New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles, where Muggsy Spanier became an alumnus. In 1942, he became the leader of the touring band working behind music/comedy star Chico Marx. By this time, the field of big-band music was dominated by his former alumni, most notably Miller, Goodman, and James. Pollack was working out of New Orleans in the late '40s, and hosted the Second Annual Dixieland Jubilee in 1949, after which he led a sextet. Pollack was an important and popular enough figure among his fellow musicians to justify appearing (as himself) in the 1955 feature film The Benny Goodman Story (starring Steve Allen as the legendary clarinetist and bandleader), but by the late '50s he had left music in favor of opening a club of his own in Los Angeles and then a successful restaurant in Palm Springs, California. Pollack recorded throughout his career, for Bluebird, Brunswick, and Vocalion, among other labels.
Title: Shout Hallelujah Because I'm Home (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Smith Ballew, Ben Pollack, Louisville Rhythm Kings
Genre: Pop
Title: Keep Your Undershirt On (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Ben Pollack, Scrappy Lambert
Genre: Pop
Title: Whiz Radio Programs
Artist: Ben Pollack, Jack Teagarden, Ben Pollack And His Orchestra
Genre: Jazz
Collections
Title: Roaring '20s Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Show Tunes of the 1920s, Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Music & The Moon Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Essential Irish Classics
Genre: World Music
Title: Echoes From the 1920S
Genre: Pop
Title: Classical Kids Club: Vivaldi
Genre: Kids
Title: Vivaldi
Genre:
Title: Best of the Roaring Twenties
Genre: Jazz
Title: Sing for Your Supper
Title: Baroque Meditations
Genre:
Title: Roaring 20s Revue, Vol. 7
Genre: Jazz
Title: Roaring 20s Revue, Vol. 4
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 2 (1928-1931)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Hits Of '37
Genre:
Title: Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925-1955
Genre: Jazz
Title: Seven Deadly Sins in Classical Music: Envy
Genre:
Title: The Best Relaxing Baroque Music
Genre:
Title: The Muggsy Spanier Collection 1924-49
Genre: Jazz
Title: Honeysuckel Rose- American Hot Bands of the Thirties
Genre: Jazz
Title: L'Histoire Des Big Bands (3 / 10) 1934 - 1937
Genre: Jazz
Title: 1920s Jazz Gold Originals
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Taste Of 1929
Genre: Jazz