1. Edward Bertram Garland was an American jazz double bassist.
10 Facts About Ed Garland
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Ed Garland was commonly known as Ed Garland, and sometimes Montudie Garland.
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Ed Garland was born in New Orleans on January 9,1895.
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Ed Garland then took up tuba and string bass; like many New Orleans bassists of the era, he doubled on the two instruments which filled similar roles in different types of bands.
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Ed Garland played with the Excelsior Brass Band and Manuel Perez's Imperial Orchestra.
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Ed Garland joined other early New Orleans bands that played in Chicago and California, playing with Lawrence Duhe, Joe "King" Oliver, and Freddie Keppard.
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In 1916 Ed Garland joined King Oliver and went to California.
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Ed Garland led his own One-Eleven Jazz Band during the Depression.
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In 1944 Ed Garland became best known as a member of a traditional New Orleans band that was a leader of the West Coast revival, put together for the CBS Radio series The Orson Welles Almanac.
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Ed Garland appeared in the 1959 film Imitation of Life, performing with Andrew Blakeney, Teddy Buckner, George Orendorf and Joe Darensbourg in the funeral sequence featuring Mahalia Jackson.