Jimmy McPartland

…was originally produced by trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, clarinetist Frank Teschemacher, and their colleagues in imitation of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings (originally the Friar’s Society Orchestra, including Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares, George Brunis, and others), a white New Orleans band playing at

…married an American jazz cornetist, Jimmy McPartland. After the war the couple moved to the U.S., and she became the pianist in his Dixieland band. Soon, however, the siren sounds of bebop and cool jazz lured her toward more modern styles. By 1950 she was leading her own trio; in…