Butch Warren

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Edward Randolph "Butch" Warren (born August 9, 1939 in Washington, DC ; † October 5, 2013 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) was an American jazz musician ( bass , composition ). Due to his pure tone and excellent timing, he was a sought-after session musician as early as the 1960s.

Live and act

Warren grew up in a musical household with many musician friends. His father Edward Warren played the piano and organ and had a band, his mother sang. His first engagement was in the band of saxophonist Rick Henderson. He studied music in South Carolina. From 1956 he played with Gene Ammons and with Stuff Smith . He moved to New York City , where he joined Kenny Dorham in 1959 . In 1961 he was involved in the album Free Form with Donald Byrd , Herbie Hancock , Wayne Shorter and Billy Higgins and in 1963 on Page One with Joe Henderson , both on Blue Note . There are also recordings with Kenny Dorham, Thelonious Monk and Dexter Gordon on Go . Monk didn't want him to play with a bow. Due to his punctuality, he became a Blue Note home bass player and thus played on recordings by Stanley Turrentine, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley and many others.

He later returned to Washington where he starred on local television shows such as Today with Inga and R&B bands. From the mid-1970s was also involved in recordings by Howard McGhee , Donald Byrd and Joe Henderson. Until the 1980s, he made his living with occasional appearances in Washington jazz clubs .

Since 2007, his long-time friend and musician colleague Peter Edelman has been organizing performances by Warren again. Since then he has been active again as a musician. In 2010, as a result of a tour of France with Pierrick Monuau, a radio concert was created as the first album under his own name: "French5tet".

A daughter was born from a failed marriage.

health

He smoked a lot and took drugs. In the 1960s, Warren was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia . At the beginning of the 1970s, she spent a year in a psychiatric clinic . After stopping his medication on his own initiative, he lived on the street for a while and was eventually admitted to the psychiatric department of a hospital in Sykesville .

In 2013 he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Discographic notes

  • 1959: Vertigo - Jackie McLean
  • 1961: Leapin 'and Lopin' - Sonny Clark
  • 1961: Free Form - Donald Byrd
  • 1962: Takin 'Off - Herbie Hancock
  • 1962: Go - Dexter Gordon
  • 1962: A Swingin 'Affair - Dexter Gordon
  • 1962: Feelin 'the Spirit - Grant Green
  • 1963: No Room for Squares - Hank Mobley
  • 1963: A New Perspective - Donald Byrd
  • 1963: Page One - Joe Henderson
  • 1963: The Turnaround - Hank Mobley
  • 1963: Miles & Monk at Newport - Thelonious Monk Quartet
  • 1963: Una Mas - Kenny Dorham
  • 1963: Straight No Filter - Hank Mobley
  • 1963: Happy Frame of Mind - Horace Parlan
  • 1964: It's Monk's Time - Thelonious Monk
  • 1967: Hipnosis - Jackie McLean
  • 2010: French5tet

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward 'Butch' Warren, Washington-born bassist, dies at 74
  2. ↑ Interview Jazzthing 92 February / March 2010
  3. ↑ Washington Post
personal data
SURNAME Warren, butch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warren, Edward Randolph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2013
Place of death Silver Spring , Maryland