Cecil Irwin
Cecil Irwin (born December 7, 1902 in Evanston , Illinois , † May 3, 1935 in Des Moines , Iowa ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet , arrangement ).
Live and act
Irwin worked from 1929 in Chicago, first with Carroll Dickerson , Erskine Tate , Junie Cobb and finally with Earl Hines , in whose orchestra he also occasionally acted as arranger (alongside Jimmy Mundy ), such as for "Rosetta", "Rhythm Sundae" and "Everybody." Loves My Baby ”. In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1929 and 1937, in addition to the aforementioned with Richard M. Jones , King Oliver , the Dixie Rhythm Kings (with Shirley Clay , Omer Simeon , Hayes Alvis , Wallace Bishop ), Alex Hill , and Harry Dials Blusicians . Irwin died in 1935 as a result of a traffic accident.
His colleague Jimmy Mundy, with whom Irwin prepared material for the stage shows at Chicago's Grand Terrace Ballroom , said of him: "Cecil was a great talent, a great writer."
Lexical entry
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .
Web links
- Cecil Irwin at Discogs (English)
- Cecil Irwin at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gunther Schuller : The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 . 1991, p. 276
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 11, 2016)
- ↑ Ira Gitler : Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s . 1985, p. 96
- ↑ John Wriggle: Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era . 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Irwin, Cecil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (tenor saxophone, clarinet, arrangement) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Evanston , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1935 |
| Place of death | Des Moines , Iowa |