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Norma Teagarden

Norma Teagarden is credited on 77 releases across 18 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2014 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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77

Pressings credited

18

Albums

7

Decades active

3

In collections

Biography

Norma Louise Teagarden (April 28, 1911 – June 6, 1996) was an American jazz pianist. She was born in Vernon, Texas, United States, into a musical family that consisted of her mother Helen, who played ragtime piano and taught; her brothers Charlie, a trumpeter, Clois, a drummer, and Jack, a trombonist. She performed with her brother Jack during the 1940s and 1950s. She performed on piano and violin during the early part of her career, which began in Oklahoma City. In the 1920s, she moved to New Mexico and worked in territory bands, returned to Oklahoma City in the 1930s, and then moved to California in the 1940s. She toured with her brother Jack from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1955. Outside the Teagarden family, she worked with Ben Pollack, Matty Matlock, and Ray Bauduc. She eventually settled in San Francisco, where she often performed on solo piano, or with bandleader Turk Murphy.

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Credited work

77 releases · 18 albums · active 1955–2014

  • Performance · 84
  • Other credits · 1

Studios: Monterey Jazz Festival · WOR Studios · Esoteric Sound Studios · Club Hangover, San Francisco

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Jack Teagarden
  • Jack Teagarden And His Orchestra
  • Various
  • Jonah Jones Band
  • Jack Teagarden (King Of The Texas Blues Trombone)
  • Jack Teagarden And His Swingin' Gates
  • Jonah Jones
  • Mel Powell

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