词条 | Bert Kelly (jazz musician) |
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| name = Bert Kelly | image = Meet Me at the Green Goose Deary.jpg | caption = Bert Kelly and the members of his jazz band in 1918 | image_size = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|6|2}} | birth_place = Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States | death_date = January 1968 (aged 85–86) | death_place = Long Beach, New York, United States | instrument = Banjo | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, bandleader | years_active = | label = | associated_acts = | website = }} Bert Kelly (June 2, 1882 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – January 1968 in Long Beach, New York) was an American musician, who pioneered jazz as a banjoist, bandleader, educator, promoter, night club owner, and night club operator. After professional stints in Seattle and San Francisco, Kelly moved to Chicago in 1914 where he flourished a banjoist, bandleader, and promoter. In 1915 — before the U.S. prohibition — he founded and operated a Chicago speakeasy called "Bert Kelly's Stables," where patrons were introduced to early jazz. Kelly as a musicianKelly's bandEarly gigsKelly's first professional engagement was in Seattle Washington, around 1896. He moved to San Francisco around 1899.[1][2]San Francisco In 1914, Kelly was in Art Hickman's band playing tea dances in the Rose Room of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Kelly eventually formed his own band and moved it to Chicago in 1914.[4]Chicago Kelly's band in Chicago included notable early New Orleans jazz musicians, including Alcide Nunez, Tom Brown, Gussie Mueller, Emile Christian, and Ragbaby Stephens. Early use of the word "jazz"Kelly claimed that his band, Bert Kelly's Jazz Band, was the first to publish the word "jazz" in 1915.[5]
Kelly as a jazz club entrepreneurChicagoIn the early 1920s — during U.S. prohibition — he founded and operated a Chicago speakeasy called "Bert Kelly's Stables," located at 431 Rush Street, in Chicago's Tower Town. It rapidly gained regional and national popularity as one of the jazz hotspots of the 1920s.[10] The first house band featured Alcide Nunez, whose featured number "Livery Stable Blues" inspired the name of the venue. Later artists at Kelly's Stables included Freddie Keppard. The brothers Johnny Dodds and Baby Dodds were featured in the house band after their break from King Oliver's band. New YorkKelly later opened another jazz club, Kelly's Stables, in New York City, which was prominent on the 52nd Street jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940s. References1. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=O-b1Qmta2wsC&pg=PA61 West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960,] by Ted Gioia, University of California Press (1998) {{OCLC|38747512}} [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]2. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=sol334hPuRoC&pg=PA132 Jazz in Print (1856-1929): An Anthology of Selected Early Readings in Jazz,] by Karl König (1902–1966), Pendragon Press (2002) {{OCLC|50072182|558438519}} 3. ^1 TV Jazz Show Stirs Memories, by Donald Freeman, San Diego Union, December 4, 1961, pg. 24 4. ^1 2 Jazz Has Remarkable History as a Fad, by Walter J. Kingsley (1876–1929), The Sun (New York City), February 9, 1919, pg. 6 5. ^1 Bert Kelly’s Stables, posted May 30, 2012, Special Collections News, The University of Chicago Library, Retrieved 13 August 2013 6. ^1 2 [https://books.google.com/books?ei=8PAgUqymKvW-4AOyroDoCA&id=yoM4AQAAIAAJ&q=bert+kelly#search_anchor Our Word Jazz,] by Dick Holbrook, Storyville, Storyville Publications, Issue 50, pps. 46–58 (December 1973 – January 1974) {{ISSN|0039-2030}} 7. ^1 Jazz on the Barbary Coast, by Tom Stoddard, Heyday Books (1998) {{OCLC|38239447}} }}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly. Bert}} 7 : 1882 births|1968 deaths|Musicians from Cedar Rapids, Iowa|Musicians from Chicago|American jazz bandleaders|American jazz banjoists|Jazz musicians from Illinois |
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