Gene Sedric

Sam Wooding and his orchestra in Berlin in 1925, Gene Sedric (standing, second from left)

(From left) Danny Settle, Slick Jones , Gene Sedric, Mary Lou Williams and Lincoln Mills , performing at The Place, New York, circa July 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Gene Sedric , actually Eugene Hall Sedric, (born June 17, 1907 in St. Louis , † April 3, 1963 in New York City ) was an American tenor saxophonist and clarinetist .

Live and act

Sedric was the son of ragtime pianist Paul "Can Can" Sedric. Before he joined Fats Waller in 1934 , he had already had a small musical career, playing with Charlie Creath (1922), in the pleasure boat bands of Fate Marable and Dewey Jackson , then in the big bands with Sam Wooding (1923 to 1934) and Fletcher Henderson . In 1938 the first recordings were made under his own name; In 1943 he had his own band; in the 1940s he also worked with Jimmy McPartland , Bobby Hackett and Phil Moore . In the 1950s he worked a. a. with Mezz Mezzrow (1953 in France, where he recorded for the Swing label ) and Conrad Janis .

Sedric was considered the master of the "big sound" and was the clarinet teacher of the famous amateur jazz musician Woody Allen .

Discographic notes

• Gene Sedric 1938-1947 (Classics)

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
• Richard Cook and Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-141-02327-9 .