Eddie Pollack or Pollock (May 9, 1899 – June 1955) was an American jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist.

Pollack learned saxophone under Erskine Tate

Erskine Tate

Erskine Tate was an American jazz violinist and bandleader.Tate moved to Chicago in 1912 and was an early figure on the Chicago jazz scene, playing with his band, the Vendome Orchestra, at the Vendome Theater, which was located at 31st and State Street...

, with whom he also played in the mid-1920s. Pollack was a fixture in many Chicago bands in the 1920s and early 1930s, playing with Detroit Shannon, Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone

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, and Carl White. Many of the bands he played in never recorded, though he does appear on record with Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey

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 and Al Jolson

Al Jolson

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. He led various house band

House band

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s in the Chicago area into the 1940s.