Boyd Lee Dunlop

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Boyd Lee Dunlop (born June 20, 1926 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , † December 26, 2013 in Buffalo ) was an American jazz pianist .

Career

Boyd Lee Dunlop was the older brother of jazz drummer Frankie Dunlop . He grew up in poverty on Buffalo's East Side and began to play the piano on a self-taught basis. At the age of 15 he performed in churches and in a night club, where Art Tatum also heard him. His main job was to work in the steelworks of Bethlehem Steel and on the railroad in Buffalo. He participated in only two recording sessions in the 1940s and 1950s, one conducted by saxophonist Moe Koffman in 1948 and another with Big Jay McNeely in 1953, in which the four songs were 3-D; Nervous, Man, Nervous; Rock Candy and Texas Turkey emerged. He performed regularly at the Colored Musicians Club in Buffalo . In December 2011, the photographer Brendan Bannon discovered him in a nursing home; Bannon then produced a first Dunlop album with Allen Farmelo, Boyd's Blues , recorded in trio with bassist Sabu Adeyola and drummer Virgil Day. It was u. a. Reviewed on National Public Radio and in The New York Times . Shortly thereafter, he suffered a heart attack , from which he soon recovered and recorded another album, The Lake Reflections, solo. In October 2012, Boyd Lee and Frankie Dunlop were inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary at WBFO
  2. ^ Colored Musicians Club
  3. ↑ Boyd Lee Dunlop at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ Boyd Lee Dunlop Trio CD Release Concert at Hallwalls
  5. ↑ A Jazz Pianist Gets His Big Break - At Age 85 at NPR Jazz
  6. ^ Dan Barry: Rhythms Flow as Aging Pianist Finds New Audience
  7. ↑ Marc Myers: Boyd Lee Dunlop: Solo Piano (2013) ( Memento of the original from May 2, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzwax.com
personal data
SURNAME Dunlop, Boyd Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Winston-Salem , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2013
Place of death Buffalo