Artt Frank

Style Frank (* 9. March 1933 in Westbrook , Maine ) is an American jazz - drummer and author .

Career

Artt Frank attended the jazz clubs on 52nd Street in 1948 at the age of fifteen , where he met the drummer Stan Levey . Frank worked with Chet Baker for over twenty years , featured on his 1980 album Burnin 'at Backstreet . He also played with Jimmy Heath , Al Cohn , Ted Curson , Sonny Stitt , Phil Moore and Billie Holiday . With his Artt Frank Jazz Ensemble he presented the album Waltz for Sharon Stone in 1997 , which he a. a. Recorded with Rich Perry and Ali Ryerson . In 2004 the album In the Moment was created . Frank, who was also active as a composer and songwriter, wrote the textbook Essentials for the Bebop Drummer (Schaffner Press) with Pete Swan . He lives in Tucson . In 2014 he published the biography Chet Baker: The Missing Years, A Memoir .

Web links

• Web presence
• Artt Frank Jazz Ensemble at Allmusic (English)
• Style Frank at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/waltz-for-sharon-stone-mw0000115486
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Doug Ramsey : Portrait in Rifftides 2005
4. ↑ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/chet-baker-the-missing-years-by-artt-frank-chet-baker-by-c-michael-bailey.php#.U44LGXZt0Zk