AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              171 a-h

Jimmy McPartland

with Mark Tucker

March 20, May 9 1985

New York, NY

Merrick, NY

                                                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-21

practicing -- young musicians -- family background -- childhood in Chicago -- interest in jazz -- hearing jazz at Lincoln Gardens -- King Oliver and Louis Armstrong -- more family background -- The Year of Jazz History -- Bud Freeman -- fishing -- Lost Lake with the Maroon Five.

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 22-42

joining the Wolverines in New York -- Austin High Gang -- Blue Friars -- starting jazz -- getting music from records -- Benny Goodman -- Murph Podolsky -- Frisco Hassi -- Al Hade -- Shades of Bix, tribute to Bix Beiderbeike -- New York and the Wolverines -- places frequented in New York.

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 43-57

Jimmy Plunkett's -- jam sessions -- recording with the Wolverines -- White City -- Benny Pollack band -- Art Kassel band -- The Little Clube and thePark Central Hotel -- Williams Sisters - marriage to Dorothy Williams.

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 58-65

Sons of Guns -- Hello Daddy -- the Pollack band -- Sons of Guns -- Arnold Johnson -- Roger Wolf Cahn.

Side e                                                                                                                         pp. 66-83

Condon/McKenzie band -- Ravel -- Irving Mills and the Hotsy Totsy Gang -- Since You Went Away -- Harlem clubs, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington -- Jungle Blues -- Bubber Miley -- Smith Ballew -- Russ Columbo band -- gigs that came before Sons of Guns -- freetime, sports and drugs.

Side f                                                                                                                         pp. 84-100

return to Chicago -- divorce -- Embassy Four -- Panama -- The Three Deuces -- The Sherman Hotel -- on the road with Teagarden -- army -- meeting Marian.

Side g                                                                                                                         pp. 101-115

marriage to Marian -- USO moved back to Chicago -- joined AA -- moved to New York -- Magic Horn -- Dixieland to Swing -- Basie Band -- Dizzie Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis -- teaching jazz.

Side h                                                                                                                        pp. 116-117

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street -- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans.