Tal Henry And His Orchestra

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Tal Henry was a prominent jazz musician throughout the 1920s-30s. He is known for his big band, the North Carolinians. Tal Henry was born in 1898 in Maysville, Georgia, and began learning the violin at an early age. In 1919, he joined his first Big Band, the Frank Hood Band. He became bandleader in 1924 and renamed them to the North Carolinians. They gained international recognition during the mid-1920s, and by the Great Depression, had earned enough of a repertoire to continue playing regularly at hotels and bars throughout New York. Henry disbanded the North Carolinians in 1938, and continued to create music in several orchestras throughout Europe during the war. After the war he returned to the United States, where he resumed playing in hotels, and played occasionally in the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, until his retirement in 1946. Henry died in 1967 at the age of 69. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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