Buddy Harper
Elijah "Buddy" Harper († around 2005 ) was an American jazz guitarist , arranger and music producer .
Live and act
"Buddy" Harper, an uncle of the singer Toni Harper , was a member of Gerald Wilson's band in the mid-1940s and was involved in his recordings for Black & White Records ( Crusin 'with Cab ). He played in the jazz scene in Los Angeles a . a. also with Big Jay McNeely Lester Young , Don Byas , Jack McVea and with Wilbert Baranco / Charles Mingus ( You Go to My Head 1945). With his All Stars band, which also included Maxwell Davis , Wilbert Baranco, Karl George and Red Callender , he accompanied the singer Effie Smith ( Nothin 'You Can Do ) in Los Angeles during recordings for Aladdin in 1946 . In another session for Jewel , his orchestra was the backing band of singer Dan Grissom ( Like a Ship at Sea ). For Lyle Griffin's label Atomic he was a session musician while recording singer Betty Hall.
In the early 1960s, Harper produced for the Spindletop u. Label operated jointly with DJ Chuck Mann . a. Music by Freddie Romain, singer of the doo-wop vocal group The Native Boys . 1983 Harper, who was mentor of Horace Tapscott , appeared with him at the Watts Towers Festival . He died in the mid-2000s.
In her History of Jazz in Los Angeles, Clora Bryant described Buddy Harper as a gifted arranger who took inspiration from Billy Strayhorn's work for the Duke Ellington Orchestra . A collection of his jazz arrangements is in the Music Library of UCLA (Schoenberg Music Building).
Discographic notes
- Charles 'Baron' Mingus West Coast 1945-49 (Uptown)
- The Chronological Gerald Wilson 1945-1946 (Classics)
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Feather : The encyclopedia yearbooks of jazz, Da Capo Press, 1993
- ↑ Lawrence McClellan: The later swing era, 1942 to 1955
- ↑ Jim Dawson: Nervous man nervous: Big Jay McNeely and the rise of the honking tenor sax!
- ^ Douglas Henry Daniels: Lester leaps in: The life and times of Lester "Pres" Young . Beacon Press, 2002
- ^ Storyville, Issues 73-86 (1977)
- ^ Mingus discography at jazzdiscography
- ↑ Discographic information at Mingus.co ( Memento from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Billboard, September 14, 1946
- ^ Charles Delaunay : Hot discographie encyclopédique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.
- ^ Atomic discography
- ^ Information from The Doo-Wop Society of Southern California: The Native Boys
- ↑ a b Matthew thirst: Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South LA
- ↑ Steven Louis Isoardi: The dark tree: jazz and the arts community in Los Angeles
- ^ Clora Bryant: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles
- ↑ Music Library Archival Collections ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harper, buddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harper, Elijah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American R&B and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 2005 |