Excerpts taken from FROM INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN MAGAZINE January 1960, for the full biography please see jackteagarden.com
"It is difficult to realize that Teagarden is, after all, largely a self-taught musician. His formal training has been acquired on the job. His creative instinct is unerring, rhythmical and harmonic, and is creatively superb.
When Jack was in Cambodia, the jazz-loving, clarinet-playing king of that country presented the trombonist with a medal for meritorious service to the arts.
There’s a sentimental streak in Teagarden that immediately warms an audience, whether it is made apparent in a song or a gracious act onstage, or even an introduction.
At the Playboy Jazz Festival, Jack introduced the trumpet player in his group, a fine young musician, Don Goldie, and recalled to the huge audience that Goldie’s father had played in a Teagarden band many years ago. As he spoke about the elder Goldie, there was a genuine catch in his throat. And when he placed his arm around the younger Goldie’s shoulder, there was genuine affection in the embrace.
He’s that kind of person … genuine----and unashamedly sentimental. It comes through in his playing and his singing and the way he lives.
He wouldn’t be Jack Teagarden if it came out any other way."
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