{{short description|American jazz trombonist (1910–1945)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jack Jenney | birth_name = Truman Eliot Jenney | birth_date = May 12, 1910 | birth_place = Mason City, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = December 16, 1945 (aged 35) | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | genre = Jazz | instruments = Trombone, trumpet | spouse = {{marriage|Kay Thompson|1937|1939|end=divorced}} }}
'''Truman Eliot''' "'''Jack'''" '''Jenney''' (May 12, 1910 – December 16, 1945)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1279}}</ref> was an American jazz trombonist.
== Early life == Born in Mason City, Iowa,<ref name="LarkinGE" /> Jenney first played trumpet, then switched to trombone.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia |entry=Jenney, Jack [Truman Elliot] |year=2003 |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J229000 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Irvin |first=Sam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CW_6bTRqoxUC&dq=Jack+Jenney&pg=PA46 |title=Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise |date=2011-11-15 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4391-7654-2 |language=en}}</ref> His father was a musician and music teacher.<ref name="AM" /> Jenney performed in his father's band from age 11, but his professional work began with Austin Wylie in 1928.<ref name="AM" />
== Career == During his career, Jenney worked with Isham Jones, Red Norvo, Artie Shaw, Mal Hallett, and Waring's Pennsylvanians. He appeared in the film ''Syncopation''.<ref name="AM">[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p8863/biography|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic] biography</ref> He has been called "the greatest trombonist of the Big Band era"{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} and won the ''DownBeat'' Reader's Poll for trombone in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.downbeat.com/artists/artist_main.asp?sect=archives&sub=stories&subid=746&aid=713&photo=&aname=Down+Beat+Readers+Poll |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-11-19 |archive-date=2006-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061122160658/http://www.downbeat.com/artists/artist_main.asp?sect=archives&sub=stories&subid=746&aid=713&photo=&aname=Down%20Beat%20Readers%20Poll |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He led his own band for a year in 1938 and 1939, but it was a financial failure. He was drafted into the United States Navy in 1943, but also played as a studio musician the following year.<ref name="Grove" />
== Death == He died on December 16, 1945, in Los Angeles, from complications following an appendectomy.<ref name="LarkinGE" /><ref name="Grove" /><ref name="AM" />
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==External links== *[http://www.garyolsen.com/jenneyfest/ Memories of the First Annual Jack Jenney Jazz Festival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426081701/http://www.garyolsen.com/jenneyfest/ |date=2016-04-26 }}
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