[78-L] Jack Palmer, trumpet & vocal...

[JD]

I first met fellow trumpeter Jack Palmer in spring or summer of 1957 on a four day  gig for Jerry Jerome at the Coliseum in Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Jack was a very fine player and I remember him as not being over 40 if that which would nean that he was quite young when on the James band as was I when I started with Sonny Dunham in 1949 at agwe 16. The photos of Pallmer with the James band seem to bear this out.  We spoke a bit about the James band and I recall him tellinhg me that the band swung A LOT more on gigs than it did on the recordings made while he was on the band. I never thought that he ws the same Palmer as the songwriter. 
Jack Daney
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> Or three?
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> Looks like AllMusic has them hopelessly confused at the very least. Now I'm leaning towards there being three of them. Four, counting our old friend. 
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> Unless the songwriter also played trumpet and sang with Ben Selvin - the guy who played w Harry James would have been only 15 or so in 1928.  I found an interview with him and his recollections of the early bands wasn't strong enough to indicate he was there that early. 
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> Thanks for digging up this link for me, Ray. 
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>> On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:36 PM, kil at roadrunner.com.invalid wrote:
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>> It looks like Jack Palmer may be two different guys, the composer and the trumpeter.
>> http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=84
>> RayK
>> ---- Rodger Holtin wrote: 
>>> 
>>> .not to be confused with the late Jack Palmer, who was a long-time member of
>>> 78-L and biographer of Vernon Dalhart.
>>> 
>>> I see this other Jack Palmer show up as a name on Harry James records ca
>>> 1939-1942 and Ben Selvin records of the late 1920s.  All Music also
>>> identifies this name as being a songwriter (Everybody Loves My Baby, and
>>> Jumpin' Jive, to name but a few.  
>>> 
>>> http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-palmer-mn0000125612 
>>> 
>>> Under the Songs tab, the list goes on and on, and under the Credits tab,
>>> Harry James records show up.  Under Related, the associates read like the
>>> Harry James band.
>>> 
>>> Bio tells nearly nothing beyond B 1913 in Nashville, TN; D 2000 in
>>> Waterbury, CT
>> 
>>> Is this really the same guy?  One busy dude, if so.  Imagine a hit
>>> songwriter playing second horn to Harry James.  And he would have been among
>>> the oldest musicians in the big band era; he'd have been over 40 while with
>>> James.  Hmmm.  Anybody know anything else about him?
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