Buddy Christian
Narcisse J. "Buddy" Christian (born July 21, 1885 in New Orleans , † 1958 ibid) was an American musician ( piano , banjo , guitar ) of New Orleans jazz ; According to jazz historian Floyd Levin, he was the first pianist to play in a jazz band. In the Nouveau dictionnaire du jazz he is rated as "the perfect banjo player of New Orleans jazz".
Live and act
Christian worked from 1910 as a professional musician on both the guitar and the piano in Storyville ; around 1913 Freddy Keppard brought him into his jazz band as a pianist, then King Oliver (1915/16) also as a pianist. In 1919 he moved to New York, where he made the banjo and later the guitar his main instruments. There he worked first with Willie The Lion Smith (1919), in the early 1920s with Lucille Hegamin (1921) and June Clark (1923). With Fred Jennings he played in a banjo duo in 1929; he also worked with Peter Bocage , the Dixie Corn Shuckers Orchestra and Clarence Williams ' Blue Five (1924, with Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet , Everybody Loves My Baby ). He directed Buddy Christian's Creole Five and Four Cry Babies ; with his Jazz Rippers he recorded in New York in 1926 for Pathé , including two tracks with the blues singer Margaret Johnson ( Come Get Me Papa Before I Faint / I Want Plenty of Grease in My Frying Pan ). Together with Porter Grainger he composed the Texas Mule Stomp.
Buddy Christian should not be confused with the jazz drummer of the same name.
Lexical entries
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- Discographic notes
- Eugene Chadbourne : Buddy Christian at Allmusic (English)
- Buddy Christian at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Discogs; According to Feather & Gitler, Christian was born around 1895.
- ↑ a b cf. Floyd Levin Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians University of California Press 2002; P. 50
- ↑ Tim Brookes Guitar: An American Life Grove Press 2005, p. 79
- ^ Daniel Hardie: Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style , p. 97
- ^ Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography , edited by Craig Martin Gibbs, pp. 2068 and 2144
- ↑ Jazz Rippers Redhotjazz
- ↑ Obituary for the drummer at Local 802
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christian, buddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christian, Narcisse J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1958 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |