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 .

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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.

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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.

personal data
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