Buddy Weed

Eugene Harold "Buddy" Weed (born January 6 or 9 , 1918 in Ossining , New York , † May 25, 1997 in Tempe (Arizona) ) was an American jazz pianist (also celesta , spinet ), singer and arranger .

Live and act

Weed played from the early 1940s in the New York jazz scene with Roy Eldridge and Teddy Powell , with whom the first recordings were made. In the following years he worked as a pianist and arranger in the big bands of Charlie Spivak (1941), Paul Whiteman (heard as a soloist in "I Found a New Baby"), and in 1945 with Sal Franzella , Ella Fitzgerald and Bud Freeman . For the first time in 1944 he recorded several vocal numbers for MGM Records under his own name with a trio ; further sessions followed in 1946/47 for MGM and V-Disc , u. a. with Mundell Lowe and Trigger Alpert . In the following years he played a. a. with Hank D'Amico , Tony Bennett , Sidney Bechet , from 1954 with Urbie Green , Neal Hefti , Richard Maltby , Larry Clinton , Peanuts Hucko , Teddi King , Joe Venuti , Charlie Shavers , Billy Butterfield and George Siravo , in sessions under his own name u. a. with Tony Mottola , Eddie Costa , Arnold Fishkin , Bobby Donaldson and Bob Haggart . In 1958 he appeared on the side of Gene Krupa on the Timex All Star Jazz Show . In the 1950s and 60s he was also a session and orchestral musician in the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , with Sy Oliver and Charlie Spivak; The last recordings were made in the 70s and early 80s with the singer Peter Dean , with whom he also performed in a duo at the New York Hilton Hotel. In the field of jazz, Weed was involved in 92 recording sessions from 1940 to 1980. He performed regularly in Phoenix in the 1970s.

Discographic notes

• Piano Moods (Columbia, 1950), with Bob Haggart
• Just a Minute (Sesac, 1953)
• Ernie Kovacs Presents Buddy Weed and Introduces Lynn Taylor (Coarl, 1956), u. a. with Hank D'Amico, Tommy Kay, Arnold Fishkind, Nick Travis , Phil Woods , Seldon Powell , Ed Shaughnessy
• The Buddy Weed Sound - Buddy-Buddy (Sesec ( EP ), 1957), with Ted Kotsaftis , Terry Snyder , Tony Mottola
• Mother Goose for the Swing Set (RCA Victor, 1958), with Don Elliott, Dottie Evans , Tyree Glenn , Barry Galbraith
• The Buddy Weed Septet (Jazz Vault, 1958), with Don Elliott , Stan Webb , Barry Galbraith , Allen Hanlon , Arnold Fishkin, Morey Feld

Web links

• Buddy Weed at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Magazine Apr. 19, 1982
2. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
3. ↑ Mother Goose for the swing set. at World Cat