Avery Parrish
Avery Parrish (* 24 January 1917 in Birmingham , Alabama ; † 10. December 1959 in New York City ) was an American jazz - pianist and composer of Swing .
Live and act
Avery Parrish was studying at Alabama State Teachers College , where he played in the college band, an ensemble led by Erskine Hawkins at the time . Until 1941 he played in other Hawkins bands and made numerous records with him. Parrish left the Hawkins band in 1941 and moved to California . In 1942, he was so badly injured in a fight in a bar that he became paralyzed and had to give up his music career. In 1979 Avery Parrish was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame .
Parrish wrote the music for the song "After Hours", which became a jazz standard after it was recorded in 1940 with Hawkins' orchestra : the track has been used by numerous musicians such as Glenn Miller , Dizzy Gillespie , Woody Herman , Hazel Scott , Phineas Newborn , Hank Crawford , Buck Clayton and Ellis Marsalis interpreted; there was also a sung version by Aretha Franklin . In 1972, Ray Bryant recorded the version used on the National Public Radio broadcast , Jazz After Hours , which has been on the air since 1984.
Web links
- Avery Parrish's biography of Scott Yanow on All Music Guide
- Official website of the NPR show "Jazz After Hours"
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 .
- Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001.
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SURNAME | Parrish, Avery |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist and composer of swing |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1917 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham, Alabama |
DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1959 |
Place of death | New York City |