Stan Keller
Stan Keller | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Stanley Keller Grubb |
Born | Reading, Pennsylvania | May 1, 1907
Died | August 7, 1990 Arvada, Colorado | (aged 83)
Genres | Jazz, Swing, Dixieland, Big band, Polkas |
Occupation(s) | Bandleader Saxophonist Composer |
Instrument(s) | Woodwinds, Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Bassoon, Oboe |
Years active | 1920s - mid 1960s |
Formerly of | Stan Keller and His Orchestra |
Stan Keller (né Stanley Keller Grubb, May 1, 1907 – August 7, 1990) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.[1]
Stan Keller Orchestra
[edit]While performing at the Stork Club in New York City, Sherman Billingsley, the proprietor, often referred to Keller's group as the "Ork of Stork" ("ork" being colloquial for "orchestra").[citation needed]
Biography
[edit]Stanley Keller Grubb's parents were Benjamin Franklin Grubb (b. 1873), a steam shovel operator in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania and Elizabeth (née Keller) Grubb (b. 1872). The family descended from John Grubb, who came to the Delaware Valley from Cornwall in 1677.[2] The youngest of four children, Stan mastered the clarinet, all saxophones, flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, and bassoon. He performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 13.[1]
References
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- Big band bandleaders
- American jazz clarinetists
- American jazz saxophonists
- American male saxophonists
- American jazz bandleaders
- 1907 births
- 1990 deaths
- Deaths from lung cancer in Colorado
- Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
- 20th-century American saxophonists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- American jazz musician stubs