Jack McVea
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Jack McVea (November 5,1914–2000) was an American Swing, blues, and rhythm and blues woodwind player; he played clarinet and tenor and baritone saxophone. His father was the noted banjoist Satchel McVea, and banjo was Jack's first instrument.
[edit] Career
After playing jazz in Los Angeles for severl years, he joined Lionel Hampton's orchestra in 1940. From 1944 on he mostly worked as a leader. Perhaps his most impressive performance as a sideman in those years was at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in 1944. From 1966 till his retirement in the 1980s he led a group which played traditional jazz at Disneyland.
McVea functioned as leader of Black & White Records studio band and in 1947 was responsible for coming up with the musical riff for the words "Open the Door, Richard" that, once Ralph Bass had the idea of recording it, became immensely popular and was recorded by many other artists.[1]
He is also known for his playing on T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)"
[edit] Notes
- ^ Shaw, Arnold (1978). Honkers and Shouters. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, p. 226. ISBN 0-02-061740-2.
