Charles Creath
Charles Cyril Creath (December 30, 1890, Ironton, Missouri – October 23, 1951, Chicago, Illinois) was an American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader. Creath played in traveling circuses and in theater bands in the decade of the 1900s, and moved back to St. Louis, Missouri around 1919. There he led bands playing on the Streckfus company's riverboats traveling on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. Louis. His ensembles were so popular that he had several bands under his own name at one time in the 1920s. A young Gene Sedric, later a mainstay of Fats Waller's combo and orchestra, played with Creath on riverboats in the 1920s, and perhaps early 1930s. He co-led a group on the SS Capitol in 1927 with Fate Marable. 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. He worked in an airplane manufacturing plant during World War II and retired in 1945. 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, Leonard Davis, and Lonnie Johnson. He recorded as a leader for Okeh Records between 1924 and 1927 billed as Chas. Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs, which were some of hottest and most collectable jazz items recorded for OKeh's race 8000 series. |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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OKeh | 8781 | 10-in. | Nov. 1924 | Pleasure mad | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
OKeh | 8782 | 10-in. | Nov. 1924 | Market Street blues | Floyd Campbell ; Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
OKeh | 9018 | 10-in. | Mar. 1925 | I woke up cold in hand | Floyd Campbell ; Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer, leader | |
OKeh | 9019 | 10-in. | Mar. 1925 | King Porter stomp | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
OKeh | 9020 | 10-in. | Mar. 1925 | Every man that wears bell-bottom britches ain't no monkey man | Floyd Campbell ; Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
OKeh | 9021 | 10-in. | Mar. 1925 | My daddy rocks me (With one steady roll) | Floyd Campbell ; Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
OKeh | 9426 | 10-in. | Nov. 1925 | Market Street stomp | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | composer, leader | |
OKeh | 9427 | 10-in. | Nov. 1925 | Won't, don't blues | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs ; Lonnie Johnson | Jazz/dance band, with violin and male vocal solo | composer, leader | |
OKeh | 9428 | 10-in. | Nov. 1925 | Way down in Lover's Lane | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
OKeh | 9429 | 10-in. | Nov. 1925 | Grandpa's spell | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
OKeh | W80823 | 10-in. | 5/2/1927 | Butter finger blues | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | composer, leader | |
OKeh | W80824 | 10-in. | 5/2/1927 | Crazy quilt | Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs | Jazz/dance band | leader |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Creath, Charles," accessed November 1, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105550.
Creath, Charles. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 1, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105550.
"Creath, Charles." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Creath, Charles, 1890-1951 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87131583
Wikidata: Charlie Creath - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q210173
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/3983405
MusicBrainz: Charlie Creath - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ae7ddcf8-b47f-4cf4-8baa-148a91d8f678
ISNI: 0000 0000 6370 046X - http://www.isni.org/isni/000000006370046X
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