Chick Morrison

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Henry "Chick" Morrison (* around 1910, † after 1975) was an American jazz musician ( drums ).

Life

Morrison worked in New York City in the late 1930s in Jerry Kruger's band (which also played in Benny Carter , Eddie Heywood and Alvis Hayes ), with whom the first recordings were made. A little later he was a member of Benny Carter's Big Band, with which he also appeared in the Savoy Ballroom . In 1943 he played in the orchestras of Louis Armstrong and Noble Sissle ; in the field of jazz he was involved in 14 recording sessions between 1939 and 1943. Around 1950 he worked with Clarence Brereton ; From 1958 he led his own band in New York until the 1970s, in which the trumpeter Mouse Randolph also played.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 21, 2018)
  2. ↑ Portrait at Swing Fm ( Memento from April 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
  3. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
personal data
SURNAME Morrison, Chick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrison, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH after 1975