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Jimmy Wyble (b. Jan. 25, 1922, Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas

Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County, Texas within the Beaumont, Texas–Port Arthur Beaumont?Port Arthur metropolitan area of the U.S....
) is an American guitarist, noted for his contributions to both jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and Western swing
Western swing

Western swing is a style of popular music that evolved in the 1920s in the American Southwest among the region's popular Western music string bands....
.

Wyble played country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 in the early 1940s with fellow guitarist Cameron Hill on local Houston radio. He was playing in Foreman Phillips's band when Bob Wills
Bob Wills

James Robert Wills was an United States Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called by his fans the "King of Western Swing."...
 hired him and Hill to play in his group, the Texas Playboys. He served in the Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 from 1942 to 1946, and returned to work with Western swing groups into the 1950s.

In 1953, he released his first record as a bandleader, The Jimmy Wyble Quintet.






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Jimmy Wyble (b. Jan. 25, 1922, Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas

Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County, Texas within the Beaumont, Texas–Port Arthur Beaumont?Port Arthur metropolitan area of the U.S....
) is an American guitarist, noted for his contributions to both jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and Western swing
Western swing

Western swing is a style of popular music that evolved in the 1920s in the American Southwest among the region's popular Western music string bands....
.

Wyble played country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 in the early 1940s with fellow guitarist Cameron Hill on local Houston radio. He was playing in Foreman Phillips's band when Bob Wills
Bob Wills

James Robert Wills was an United States Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called by his fans the "King of Western Swing."...
 hired him and Hill to play in his group, the Texas Playboys. He served in the Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 from 1942 to 1946, and returned to work with Western swing groups into the 1950s.

In 1953, he released his first record as a bandleader, The Jimmy Wyble Quintet. The album featured accordion
Accordion

The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox....
, clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
, guitar, bass, and drums. That same year, he recorded with Barney Kessel
Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel was an United States jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions....
. Soon after he played in the bands of Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
 and Red Norvo
Red Norvo

Red Norvo was one of jazz's early vibraphone, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments....
; with Norvo he toured Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 backing Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
.

Wyble's output decreased in the 1960s and 1970s, playing mainly as a session musician
Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental performers or vocalists who are available for hire for live performances or recording sessions, as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical ensemble or who have acquired fame in their own right as bandleaders....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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. In 1977 he recorded an album entitled Jimmy Wyble & Love Brothers, which featured neither a musician nor an ensemble called "Love Brothers". During this time Wyble played on TV shows such as The Flip Wilson Show
The Flip Wilson Show

The Flip Wilson Show is a variety show that aired in the United States on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience....
 and Kraft Music Hall
Kraft Music Hall

The Kraft Music Hall was a major NBC radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, in a 16-year span from 1933 to 1949....
, and studied classical guitar with Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian classical classical guitar.Prior to being invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton, Laurindo Almeida played guitar in Rio de Janeiro where he was known for his classical Spanish guitar playing....
. Wyble also taught others; among his students were Howard Roberts
Howard Roberts

Howard Roberts was an American jazz guitarist, educator and session musician....
, Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather

Steve "Luke" Lukather is an United States Grammy Award winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, Arrangement, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto ....
 and Larry Koonse. Wyble played guitar on soundtracks including The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch , directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of 1913....
, Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven is the name of two caper films:*Ocean's Eleven , the original heist film starring all five members of the Rat Pack*Ocean's Eleven , a remake of the above film with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon...
, and Kings Go Forth
Kings Go Forth

Kings Go Forth is a black-and-white World War II film starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. The screenplay was written by Merle Miller from the novel of the same name by Joe David Brown, and the film was directed by Delmer Daves....
.