Billy Bauer

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Billy Bauer, 1946
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

William H. "Billy" Bauer (born November 14, 1915 in New York City , † June 17, 2005 in Melville , New York ) was an American jazz guitarist .

Life

Bauer first took lessons on the banjo , geared himself to Allan Reuss when playing the guitar and began in 1939 with Jerry Wald . Between 1944 and 1946 he played in Woody Hermans First Herd , with Neal Hefti , Charlie Ventura and Chubby Jackson's band (1947). Between 1946 and 1949 he was a member of Lennie Tristano's ensemble and was involved in the legendary recordings of May 1949 for Capitol Records ( Crosscurrents ).

Bauer was one of the few guitarists of the time who avoided the elastic phrasing of Charlie Christian , but preferred a metallic sound. He later played with JJ Johnson and Kai Winding (1954), Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden (1957) or Cootie Williams and Rex Stewart (1957) and with Benny Goodman (1958), but also again with Tristano and Lee Konitz . In 1956 he created his only album under his own name, Plectrist . He last appeared in public in 1997. In essence, Bauer worked as a music teacher and studio musician. He owned a music publisher.

His duos with Konitz in 1950 (“Rebecca”) were the model for the duos of Albert Mangelsdorff and Attila Zoller .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Keepnews: Billy Bauer, 89, to Early Modern Jazz Guitarist, Dies. In: The New York Times , June 23, 2005; Retrieved May 30, 2010