Jack Teagarden

Weldon Leo Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas, in 1905, the eldest of four children. His father played cornet part-time and his mother was a semi-professional pianist who accompanied silent films, and his two brothers and a sister played music too. He got his first trombone at eight, turned professional at sixteen in San Antonio, and played with Paul Whiteman's orchestra from 1933 to 1938. He toured with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars from 1946 to 1951. On January 15, 1964, he was found dead in his New Orleans hotel room, hours before a scheduled performance.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — steps away
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Cabildo — 0.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.3 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Hermann - Grima House — steps away
• Merieult House — steps away
• The French Opera House — steps away
• Bank of Louisiana — steps away