A very talented trombone soloist influenced by Jack Teagarden but possessing his own brassier sound, Lou McGarity was a strong asset to many bands and jam sessions. He started out playing violin when he was seven, not switching to trombone until he was 17. McGarity studied at the University of Georgia from 1934-36, gigged locally in the South (including with Kirk DeVore and Nye Mayhew), and toured with Ben Bernie from 1938-40 before hitting the big time with Benny Goodman from 1940-42. McGarity not only played with Benny Goodman's big band but with his smaller groups -- the first trombonist to do so. McGarity, who through the years often teamed up with his friend and fellow trombonist Cutty Cutshall (including with Goodman), worked with Raymond Scott's Orchestra at CBS from 1942-44, spent time in the military and then rejoined Benny Goodman for a time in 1946. Starting in 1947, he worked as a busy studio musician in New York, often appearing nightly with Dixieland-oriented musicians, including the Lawson/Haggart band, and with the many groups of Eddie Condon. He worked with Bob Crosby in the mid-'60s and was a key member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band from 1968-70 before bad health shortened his life. McGarity recorded as a leader for MGM (four selections in 1955), Jubilee in 1959, Argo in 1959 and Fat Cat's Jazz in 1970.
Scott Yanow
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Lou McGarity
Music from
"Some Like it Hot"
Tracks
1 Some Like it Hot (Diamond, Malneck) 2:59
2 By the Beautiful Sea (Atteridge, Carroli) 2:21
3 Stairway to The Stars (Parish, Malneck, Signorelli) 3:29
4 Sweet Sue, Just You (Harris, Young) 1:51
5 Down Among Sheltering Palms (Brockman, Olman) 3:12
6 I Wanna Be Loved by You (Kalmar, Stathart, Ruby) 1:56
7 La Cumparsita (Johnson, Rodriguez) 1:45
8 I'm Thru with Love (Kahn, Malneck, Livingston) 3:57
9 Runnin' Wild (Grey, Wood, Gibbs) 2:41
10 Sugar Blues (Fletcher, Williams) 2:46
11 Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Pinkard, Casey) 2:38
12 Some Like it Hot [Reprise] (Diamond, Malneck) 1:00
13 Blue (and Broken Hearted) (Handman, Clarke, Leslie) 2:10
14 Blue Moon (Rodgers, Hart) 2:39
15 Blue Prelude (Jenkins, Bishop) 2:39
16 Blue Again (McHugh, Fields) 3:51
17 Blue Champagne (Watts, Reyerson) 2:57
18 Blue Turning Grey over You (Waller, Razaf) 2:31
19 Blue Lou (Sampson, Mills) 2:53
20 Born to Be Blue (Wells, Tormé) 3:56
21 Blue Skies (Berlin) 2:38
22 Black and Blue (Waller, Brooks, Razaf) 3:23
23 I Get the Blues when it Rains (Klauber, Stoddard) 2:11
24 Under a Blanket of Blue (Neiburg, Symes, Livingston) 2:29
25 Mobile Mama (Malone) 2:31
26 New Orleans Nightmare (Malone) 2:48
27 Bandanna (Malone) 2:40
28 Birmingham Suffle (Malone) 2:28
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Personnel
[# 1-12] Lou McGarity Quintet
Lou McGarity - tb
Dick Cary - p & tp
George Barnes - g
Jack Lesberg - b
Don Marino - dr
Recorded in New York ; December 1959
[# 13-24] Lou McGarity Big Eight
Doc Severinsen - tp
Lou McGarity - tb & vcl [# 23]
Bob Wilber - cl, b-cl & ts
Dick Cary - p, alto-hrn, tp & arr. [# 13 & 22]
George Barnes - g
Jack Lesberg - b
Don Marino - dr
Recorded in New York ; September 14 & 15, 1959
[# 25-28] Lou McGarity Septet
Yank Lawson - tp
Lou McGarity - tb
Bill Stegmeyer - cl
Peanuts Hucko - cl & ts
Gene Schroeder - p
Jack Lesberg - b
Cliff Leeman - dr
Recorded in New York ; 1955