Bill Scarlett
William P. "Bill" Scarlett Jr. (born March 6, 1929 in Russellville (Arkansas) ; † March 28, 2011 in Knoxville (Tennessee) ) was an American jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet and university teacher ) who worked as was considered one of the defining figures of the Knoxville jazz scene.
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Bill Scarlett lived with his family from 1936 to 1942 in Morrilton, where he had violin lessons. At the age of ten he switched to the clarinet after hearing Benny Goodman in 1939 . Bill's family moved to Salt Lake City in 1942 , where he began playing alto saxophone and performing publicly in Mormon churches. He then lived in Corpus Christi (1943/44), where he switched to the tenor saxophone and had lessons from Eddie Galvan . He then moved to Little Rock , Arkansas in 1945 , where he co-founded a bebop band. From 1951 he attended Little Rock Junior College, then he studied from 1953 at Louisiana State University , where he earned a Masters in clarinet and music theory in 1956 .
From 1957 he was a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville , where he also worked as an orchestral musician for the Knox Symphony Orchestra and played in various jazz bands. In 1959 he founded a jazz big band that eventually became the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra (KJO). He also played a. a. in the bands of Woody Herman , Jack Teagarden , Charlie Spivak , Larry and Les Elgart ; he also performed with Ray Charles and Lou Rawls . With the KJO, Scarlett u. a. also at European festivals such as Jazz à Vienne or the Montreux Jazz Festival . The orchestra also played with guest musicians such as Jimmy Heath , James Moody , Marvin Stamm , Hank Jones and Mulgrew Miller . In 1994 Scarlett released the album Jazz from the University of Tennessee ; In 2010 Tenors and Satin: The Knoxville Jazz Sessions was released .
Scarlett was during his forty years of college a. a. the teacher of saxophonist Bennie Wallace and bassist Dennis Irwin , who had clarinet lessons with him. In the years before his death in 2011, he had a trio that recorded an album produced by Donald Brown ; Scarlett also appeared on Donald Brown's 2007 album Blues Man from Memphis with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and in 2008 he was inducted into the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Obituary at metropulse.com
- Information about the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra at Knoxjazz.org
- Portrait at Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary at metropulse.com ( memento of the original from June 18, 2013 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.
- ↑ Information on Scarlett at knoxville.com
- ↑ a b c Biographical portrait at arjazz.org ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 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.
- ↑ Information at Knoxjazz.org ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scarlett, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scarlett, William P. junior; Scarlett, Bill junior (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet and university professor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Russellville, Arkansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2011 |
| Place of death | Knoxville, Tennessee |