Jack Jenney

Truman Eliot "Jack" Jenney (May 12, 1910 – December 16, 1945)[1] was an American jazz trombonist.

Born in Mason City, Iowa, United States,[1] Jenney first played trumpet, then switched to trombone.[2] His father was a musician and music teacher.[3] Jenney performed in his father's band from age 11, but his professional work began with Austin Wylie in 1928.[3] He would go on to work with Isham Jones, Red Norvo, Artie Shaw, Mal Hallett, and Waring's Pennsylvanians, and appear in the film Syncopation.[3] He has been called "the greatest trombonist of the Big Band era"[4] and won the DownBeat Reader's Poll for trombone in 1940.[5]

He led his own band for a year in 1938–39, but it was a financial failure.[2] He was drafted into the United States Navy in 1943, but also played as a studio musician the following year.[2] He died on December 16, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, from complications following an appendectomy.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1279. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  2. "Jenney, Jack [Truman Elliot]". Grove Music Online. 2003. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J229000. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. AllMusic biography
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-11-22. Retrieved 2006-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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