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Elmer Schoebel
Elmer Schoebel is credited on 2,278 releases across 700 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,278
Pressings credited
700
Albums
8
Decades active
75
In collections
Biography
Elmer Schoebel (September 8, 1896 – December 14, 1970) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, United States. Early in his career heplayed along to silent films in Champaign, Illinois After moving on to vaudeville, late in the 1910s, he played with the 20th Century Jazz Band in Chicago in 1920. In 1922-23 he was a member of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, then led his own band, known variously as the Midway Gardens Orchestra, the Original Memphis Melody Boys and the Chicago Blues Dance Orchestra, before joining Isham Jones in 1925. After returning to Chicago he played with Louis Panico and Art Kassel, and arranged for the Melrose Publishing House. In the 1930s, Schoebel wrote and arranged, working as the chief arranger for the Warner Brothers publishing division. From the 1940s onward he did some performing with Conrad Janis, Blue Steele's Rhythm Rebels (1958), and with his own ensembles in St. Petersburg, Florida. He continued to play up until his death.
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Credited work
2,278 releases · 700 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 2,574
- Other credits · 51
Studios: Symphony Hall, Boston · Carnegie Hall · Royal Festival Hall · Old Barn Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Music Of Cosmos
1981
Double Time
1977
Big Swing Face
1967
Glenn Miller Plays Selections From "The Glenn Miller Story" And Other Hits
1956
The Great Benny Goodman
1956
Foggy Mountain Banjo
1961
Work It Out With Chet Atkins C.G.P.
1983
The Unforgettable Glenn Miller 70 Of His Greatest Original Recordings
1968
...You Have To Hear It To Believe It!
1956
Women And Captains First
1982
20 Greatest Hits
1980
Sing Sing Sing
1968
Swing's The Thing (1931-1934)
1961
The Merle Travis Guitar
1957
Limited Edition
1953
Barrel House Piano
Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Essential Bluegrass Album
2011
Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic: The First Concert
1994
The Most Important Recordings Of Cab Calloway
1989
Chicago
1984
Giants Of Jazz - Duke Ellington
1980
Originální Pražský Synkopický Orchestr
1980
Boris Vian À Saint-Germain-Des-Prés / Pauline Julien Chante Boris Vian
1978
The Historic Recordings
1976
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