Al Dennie
Alfred Stanley "Al" Dennie (born September 27, 1903 in Wellston , Oklahoma , also Al Denny ; † April 22, 1995 in Tulsa , Oklahoma) was an American jazz saxophonist , band leader and music teacher.
Live and act
Dennie attended Douglass High School and was heavily influenced by Zelia Breaux's music lessons. After moving to Kansas City, he took lessons from William H. Dawson. He began his career in Kansas City Jazz bands such as the Chauncie Downs and the Rinky Dinks , George Wilkerson's Musical Magnets and in the Territory bands of Jesse Stone and Bennie Moten . Together with Moten he organized the Jap Allen Band , with whom he toured the Midwest and participated in numerous band battles in Kansas City. Dennie also played an important role in the Paul Banks Orchestra and is considered one of the first to recognize the talent of 17-year-old pianist Jay McShann ; he had his first lessons in big band music with Dennie in Tulsa . He spent most of his life in Kansas City. In 1990 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
literature
- Eddie Faye Gates They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa Eakin Press 1997, ISBN 978-1571681454 .
swell
- ^ Frank Driggs , Chuck Haddix: Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History . Oxford 2005; ISBN 0-19-530712-7 , p. 161
- ↑ See also: Martin Kunzler , Jazzlexikon 1988, p. 784.
- ↑ Dennie in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame 1990
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dennie, Al |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dennie, Alfred Stanley; Denny, Al |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellston , Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1995 |
| Place of death | Tulsa , Oklahoma |