Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden, known as "Big T" and "The Swingin' Gate", was a jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone."

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1963
An American in Paris
1951
Jazz on a Summer's Day
1960
So's Your Uncle
1943
The Strip
1951
Birth of the Blues
1941
The Glass Wall
1953
Glory Alley
1952
Twilight on the Prairie
1944
I'm in the Revue
1950
The Pied Piper of Basin Street
1945
Hoagy Carmichael
1939

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
13
Sound
2
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1960
Jazz on a Summer's Day
as Self
1953
The Glass Wall
as Musician
1952
Glory Alley
as Jack Teagarden
1951
The Strip
as Himself
1950
I'm in the Revue
as Musician
1944
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Jack Teagarden - Orchestra Leader
1944
Twilight on the Prairie
as Jack
1943
So's Your Uncle
as Himself
1941
Birth of the Blues
as Pepper
1939
Hoagy Carmichael
as Himself
1931
The Happiness Remedy
as Self
1929
Me and the Boys
as Self - Trombone