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Matty Matlock
Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggard, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, Matty Matlock, Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., ca. 1941.Background information Birth name Julian Clifton Matlock Born April 27, 1907 Origin Paducah, Kentucky, U.S. Died June 14, 1978 (aged 71)Genres Dixieland
SwingInstruments Saxophone
ClarinetYears active 1950s – 1970s Associated acts Matty Matlock's All Stars Julian Clifton "Matty" Matlock (April 27, 1907 – June 14, 1978) was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger born in Paducah, Kentucky. From 1929 to 1934 Matlock replaced Benny Goodman in the Ben Pollack band doing arrangements and performing on clarinet.
From 1935 to 1942, after a falling-out with Pollack, Matty joined Bob Crosby in whose band he was the featured clarinetist and also a saxophonist. He contribute arrangements to the band's repertoire.
Matlock wrote arrangements for television shows, feature films and motion pictures.[citation needed]
Select discography
As bandleader
- Dixieland (Douglass Phonodisc)
- Four-Button Dixie (Douglass Phonodisc, 1959) [credited as Matty Matlock and the Paducah Patrol]
- They Made It Twice As Nice As Paradise And They Called It Dixieland (Douglass Phonodisc)
With Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book (Verve Records)
With Ray Heindorf
- Pete Kelly's Blues (Columbia Records)
With Ben Pollack
- Ben Pollack's Pick-A-Rib Boys: Dixieland (Savoy Records)
- Dixieland Vols. 1, 2 & 3 (Savoy Records)
With Beverly Jenkins
- Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife The Blues Singer (Impulse!)
Categories:- Dixieland clarinetists
- Swing clarinetists
- Dixieland bandleaders
- American jazz clarinetists
- Clarinetists
- 1907 births
- 1978 deaths
- American jazz musician stubs
- American clarinetist stubs
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