Alfred Chippy Outcalt

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James Alfred "Chippy" Outcalt (* around 1915; † unknown) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( trombone ).

Live and act

"Chippy" Outcalt worked in the New York jazz scene from the late 1930s; first recordings were made in 1939 with the Savoy Dictators (with Hal Mitchell , Howard Scott, Bobby Plater , Lowell "Count" Hastings, Clem Moorman , Will Johnson, Al Henderson, Danny Gibson). From 1944 he played with Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra and also took part in his hits “A Cottage for Sale” (1945, # 8) and “I'm in the Mood for Love” (1946, # 12). Outcalt was also featured as a soloist in " A Night in Tunisia "; He can also be seen in the music film Rhythm in a Riff (1946) alongside trombonists Gerald Valentine and Howard Scott.

In 1947 Outcalt played with Hot Lips Page ("Take Your Shoes Off Daddy" / " St. James Infirmary ") and in 1948/49 in Hal "Cornbraed" Singer Sextet, with the vocal ensemble The X-Rays and Milton "Tippy" Larkin and the R&B singer Chicago Davis ("Travelin 'Shoes", 1949), also with Bob Merrill , Sam "The Man" Taylor and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In the following decade he was a member of the Gene Ammons Band and participated in recordings of Willis Jackson , Sonny Stitt and Jesse Powell . In the field of jazz he was involved in 26 recording sessions between 1939 and 1955, also with Paul Gayten / Annie Laurie ("I Ain't Gonna Let You In", 1950)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in J-Disc Discography at Columbia University
  2. ^ Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another View on Jazz History. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  3. ↑ Down Beat, Volume 32, 1965
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 18, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Outcalt, Alfred Chippy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Outcalt, Chippy; Outcalt, James Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1915
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century