# Teddy Weatherford

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American jazz pianist

Teddy Weatherford Teddy Weatherford (1926) Background information Born (1903-10-11)October 11, 1903 Pocahontas, Virginia, United States Died April 25, 1945(1945-04-25) (aged 41) Calcutta, India Genres Jazz Occupation Musician Instrument Piano

Musical artist

**Teddy Weatherford** (October 11, 1903 − April 25, 1945) was an [American](/source/Americans) [jazz](/source/Jazz) pianist and an accomplished [stride pianist](/source/Stride_pianist).[1]

## Biography

Weatherford was born in [Pocahontas, Virginia](/source/Pocahontas%2C_Virginia),[2] and was raised in neighboring [Bluefield, West Virginia](/source/Bluefield%2C_West_Virginia). From 1915 through 1920, he lived in [New Orleans, Louisiana](/source/New_Orleans%2C_Louisiana), where he learned to play jazz piano.[3] He then moved to [Chicago, Illinois](/source/Chicago%2C_Illinois), in 1922[2] where he worked with such bands as that of [Erskine Tate](/source/Erskine_Tate)[3] through the 1920s and with such jazz notables as [Louis Armstrong](/source/Louis_Armstrong) and [Johnny Dodds](/source/Johnny_Dodds) and impressed the young [Earl Hines](/source/Earl_Hines).

Weatherford then traveled, first to [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), then around [Asia](/source/Asia) playing professionally. In the early 1930s, he led a band at the Taj Mahal Hotel in [Bombay](/source/Bombay) (now [Mumbai](/source/Mumbai)), India.[4] He joined [Crickett Smith](/source/Crickett_Smith)'s band in [Jakarta](/source/Jakarta), Indonesia. Weatherford took over leadership of Smith's band in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1937.

During World War II, he led a band in [Calcutta](/source/Calcutta),[5] where he made [radio](/source/Radio) broadcasts for the [U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service](/source/American_Forces_Network). Performers with Weatherford's band included [Bridget Althea Moe](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_Althea_Moe&action=edit&redlink=1),[6] [Jimmy Witherspoon](/source/Jimmy_Witherspoon), Roy Butler, [Gery Scott](/source/Gery_Scott) and [Cedric West](/source/Cedric_West).

Teddy Weatherford died of [cholera](/source/Cholera) in Calcutta, aged 41.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Piano Demon"](http://magazine.atavist.com/piano-demon/). *The Atavist Magazine*. January 1, 1970. Retrieved May 17, 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_2-1) [Colin Larkin](/source/Colin_Larkin_(writer)), ed. (1995). *[The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz](/source/Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)* (Second ed.). [Guinness Publishing](/source/Guinness_Publishing). p. 480. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-85112-674-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85112-674-X).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-allmusic.com_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-allmusic.com_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-allmusic.com_3-2) Yanow, Scott. ["Artist Biography of Teddy Weatherford"](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/teddy-weatherford-mn0001839197/biography). AllMusic. Retrieved March 25, 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Shope-2016_4-0)** Shope, Bradley G. (2016). [*American Popular Music in Britain's Raj*](https://books.google.com/books?id=g0kTswEACAAJ). Eastman Studies in Music. Vol. 131. Rochester, NY: [University of Rochester Press](/source/Boydell_%26_Brewer). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-58046-548-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58046-548-9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Koerner-2008_5-0)** Koerner, Brendan I. (2008). *[Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II](/source/Now_the_Hell_Will_Start)*. New York: [The Penguin Press](/source/Penguin_Group). p. [158](https://archive.org/details/nowhellwillstart00koer/page/158). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59420-173-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59420-173-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-tajmahalfoxtrot.com_6-0)** Fernandes, Naresh (October 8, 2011). ["Happy Birthday, Bridget Moe"](http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=762). Taj Mahal Foxtrot. Retrieved March 25, 2016.

## Further reading

Bradley Shope, *American Popular Music in Britain's Raj.* Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016.

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