Buddy Stewart
Buddy Stewart (* 1922 in Derry (New Hampshire) as Albert James Byrne Jr. , † February 1, 1950 in Deming (New Mexico) ) was an American jazz singer .
Live and act
Stewart's parents were dancers, so at the age of eight he already appeared in a vaudeville and sang in a number of formations, including a. in a duo with his future wife Martha Wayne . As a member of The Snowflakes , he performed with the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Claude Thornhill in the early 1940s .
After serving in the US Army (March 1942 to 1944), he recorded What's This in 1945 with Dave Lambert and Gene Krupa's orchestra , the first vocal version of a Bop track . He was also successful in the pop charts with Along the Navajo Trail . He also worked with Lambert in the next few years; they recorded for the small label Sittin 'In With ; Gerry Mulligan was the arranger . In 1947 he sang in the orchestra of Charlie Ventura ("Synthesis", "East of Suez", 1947 on Savoy ). From January 1948 he appeared under his own name, u. a. as co-leader of a formation with Kai Winding and in 1949 with Charlie Barnet's bebop orchestra. In 1948 he also took on some titles as a band leader; Stewart and Lambert added a third vocal line and two horns, Bennie Green and Allen Eager , with Blossom Dearie . In February 1949 they were on the air with Charlie Parker's quintet. Stewart was killed in a car accident in 1950 while visiting his wife and child in New Mexico.
After Stewart's death, when his wife was penniless, a benefit concert was held on March 24th in Birdland, New York ; it occurred u. a. Ella Fitzgerald , Charlie Ventura, Stan Getz , Tony Scott , Al Cohn , Lester Young , Lennie Tristano , Harry Belafonte , JJ Johnson , Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Pettiford . His sister Beverly later married the saxophonist Stan Getz.
swell
- Will Friedwald : Swinging Voices of America - A Compendium of Great Voices . Hannibal, St. Andrä-WIERT, 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/buddy-stewart/497570
- ↑ One of the last joint photos of Parker and Gillespie was taken at the concert, on which Gillespie's tenor saxophonist John Coltrane can also be seen. See Friedwald, p. 167.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stewart, buddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Byrne, Albert James Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derry, New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1950 |
| Place of death | Deming (New Mexico) |