Milt Herth
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Milton "Milt" Herth (November 3, 1902Script error: No such module "Unsubst". – June 18, 1969)[1] was an American jazz organist, known for his work on the Hammond organ soon after it was introduced in 1935.[2] Herth's work is available from his recordings of the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Herth was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin,[3]
In 1937, Herth began to work with jazz pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith in Chicago, when Smith was signed to Decca Records.[4] Herth, Smith, and drummer O'Neil Spencer formed the Milt Herth Trio.[4] The trio became a quartet with the addition of Teddy Bunn on guitar in April 1938.[4]
Herth appeared as himself in several short films (Love and Onions (1935), Swing Styles (1939), and Jingle Belles, (1941)) and the longer 1942 film, Juke Box Jenny, a movie noted for being a series of musical performances.
He died in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 18, 1969.[5]
Discography
- The Monkeys Have No Tails in Pago Pago (Decca, 1939)
- Ain't She Sweet (Coral)
- Hi-Jinks on the Hammond (Capitol)
- Milt Herth Trio (Decca)
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Template:Open access
- ↑ a b c Jasen, David A. (2002). Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Routledge, p. 94, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Template:Open access
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- 1902 births
- 1989 deaths
- American jazz organists
- American male organists
- Decca Records artists
- Jazz musicians from Chicago
- Musicians from Kenosha, Wisconsin
- RCA Victor artists
- 20th-century American organists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- 20th-century American keyboardists