Coleridge Goode

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Coleridge Goode

Coleridge Goode (* 29. November 1914 in Kingston , Jamaica ; † 2. October 2015 in London ) was a British jazz - bassist .

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Goode comes from a musical family, his father was an organist and choir director, his mother sang in the choir. From the age of eleven he learned to play the violin. In 1934 he came to Great Britain, studied at the Royal Technical College (later University of Strathclyde ) in Glasgow and then switched to studying electrical engineering at Glasgow University . He also worked as a classical amateur violinist. He turned to jazz and in 1939 switched to the double bass under the influence of the music of Count Basie , Duke Ellington , Billie Holiday and Louis Jordan , but also by Johann Sebastian Bach : “For me, Bach's bass lines were the most prominent part of his music. Bach made me pay attention to the bass. "

He decided not to work as an engineer in his home country and stayed in the UK to pursue a music career. His early influences as a bassist included Walter Page , Slam Stewart and Jimmy Blanton . In 1942 he moved to London , where he worked as a professional musician in small swing formations, a. a. worked with Johnny Claes , Eric Winstone , Lauderic Caton and Dick Katz . He was a founding member of the Ray Ellington Quartet, played on the radio with Stéphane Grappelli and George Shearing ; At the end of January 1946 he recorded four tracks in London with Django Reinhardt , a. a. "Coquette" and under the title "Echoes de France" a jazz version of the French national anthem . He was one of the first bass players to use the electrically amplified double bass (since 1946).

He later played in Tito Burns ' sextet and led his own formation before joining Joe Harriott's band in 1959 , in whose quintet he remained until 1965 and played an important role. He was also involved in Harriott's attempts to fuse jazz and Indian music. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked frequently with the pianist and composer Michael Garrick , as well as with Gwigwi Mrwebi and in a quartet that performed as a hotel band at the Churchill . He also played in the trio of Iggy Quail and then Laurie Morgan . Like Slam Stewart , he cut his solos and at the same time sang an octave higher in unison.

In 2002 his autobiography appeared, which he wrote together with the jazz author Roger Cotterrell. In 2011 he received a Parliamentary Jazz Award for his contributions to jazz.

Discographic notes

  • 1946 - Django Reinhardt 1944-1946 ( Classics )
  • 1960 - Joe Harriott: Free Form (Redial)
  • 1962 - Joe Harriott: Abstract (Redial)
  • 1967 - Joe Harriott: Swings High (Cadillac)
  • 1967 - Shake Keane : That's the Noise (Vocalion)
  • 1970 - Michael Garrick: The Heart is a Lotus (Vocalion)

book

  • Coleridge Goode and Roger Cotterrell: Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz . London, Northway Books, 2002 ISBN 0-9537040-2-5

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at London Jazz News
  2. ^ Paul Vernon Chester: Django's Bassists ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Quoted from Jost., P. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Goode, Coleridge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goode, Coleridge George Emerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kingston , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH October 2nd, 2015
Place of death London , UK