Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath (December 30, 1890, Ironton, Missouri - October 23, 1951, Chicago) was an American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader. Ironton is a city in Iron County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1471 at the 2000 census Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States
Creath played in traveling circuses and in theater bands in the decade of the 1900s, and moved back to St. Louis, Missouri around 1919. A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, Clowns trained animals trapeze acts Hoopers, tightrope walkers There he led bands playing on the Streckfus company's riverboats traveling on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. A riverboat is Ship designed for Inland navigation. These vessels are usually less sturdy than ships built for the open seas with limited navigational and The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana Louis. His ensembles were so popular that he had several bands under his own name at one time in the 1920s. He co-led a group on the SS Capitol in 1927 with Fate Marable. Fate Marable ( 2 December 1890 – 16 January 1947) was a Jazz Pianist and bandleader Late in the 1920s he suffered from an extended illness, and primarily played saxophone and accordion instead of trumpet afterwards. He and Marable played together again from 1935 to 1938, and toward the end of the decade Creath opened a nightclub in Chicago. A nightclub (or "night club" or "club" is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark He worked in an airplane manufacturing plant during World War II and retired in 1945. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including His last years were plagued with illness.
Aside from his brother-in-law, Zutty Singleton, members of Creath's bands included Ed Allen, Pops Foster, Jerome Don Pasquall, and Lonnie Johnson. Arthur James "Zutty" Singleton ( 14 May, 1898 - 14 July, 1975) was an influential American early Jazz Drummer Ed Allen ( December 15, 1897, Nashville Tennessee - January 28, 1974, New York City) was an American Jazz trumpeter George Murphy "Pops" Foster ( May 19, 1892 - October 29, 1969) was a Jazz Musician best known for his vigorous Jerome Don Pasquall (September 20 1902 - October 18 1971 was an American Jazz reed player Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson ( February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American Blues and Jazz He recorded as a leader for Okeh Records between 1924 and 1927. Okeh Records began as an Independent record label based in the United States of America in
References
- Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Leonard Geoffrey Feather ( 13 September 1914 &ndash 22 September 1994) was a British -born Jazz pianist, Ira Gitler (born December 18, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz historian and journalist Oxford, 1999, p. 155.
- Lawrence Koch, "Charlie Creath". Grove Jazz online. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians
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