Arthur Young (musician)

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Arthur Wilson Colthard Young (born November 7, 1904 in Edinburgh , † July 25, 1965 in Sydney ) was a British jazz musician ( piano , novachord , bandleader ) and songwriter .

Live and act

Young first played with Jack Hylton and then was part of the quartet The Four Bright Sparks with Len Fillis, Van Phillips, and Rudy Starita in the early 1930s . From 1932 he also worked in a number of British music films such as Radio Parade of 1935 or composed for them. In 1937 he played in a duo with Reginald Foresythe and from mid-1939 with his band Hatchett's Swingtette in Hatchett's Restaurant in London's West End . Members included guitarists Jack Llewellyn and Noel "Chappie" d'Amato, Bill Shakespear (trumpet), Dennis Moonan (clarinet, tenor saxophone and viola), Frank Baron as second pianist, George Senior (double bass), Tony Spurgin (drums) and the singer Beryl Davis . Young invited Stéphane Grappelli to play in his band and record together. Four titles were created for Decca Records in December, such as Scatter Brain, Ting-a-Ling and Alexander's Ragtime Band . In September 1940, Young was injured in an air raid. 22 tracks from the Swingtette recordings were released in 1992 on the album Hatchett's Swingtette on Pavilion Records. For Bob Crosby's Bob Cats he composed Shakespeare in Swing (Decca Records, 1941). After the end of the Second World War, he also toured Germany. As a pianist, he was also involved in the recordings of Mantovani's Concerto in Jazz (1948) and other titles such as Nature Boy .

In his later years, Young lived in Australia, where he had worked for radio and television since 1950.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gramophone August 1930@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gramophone.net
  2. ^ John Chilton: Who's who of British jazz , p. 137
  3. ^ The Quintette du Hot Club de France toured shortly before the outbreak of World War II in England; Django Reinhardt returned to France, while the violinist stayed in England for the time of the war.
  4. Grappelli then brought the young George Shearing into the band as a pianist .
  5. ^ Hatchett's Restaurant - Piccadilly The Swingette ( January 10, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )
  6. Jack Llewellyn portrait page
  7. ^ Decca Presents Shakespeare in Swing
  8. Hermann Glaser u. a. There was never so much beginning: German cities 1945-1949 1999, p. 252
  9. ^ Colin McKenzie Mantovani: A Lifetime in Music 2005, p. 115
  10. ^ Music Australia