Dave Carey (musician, 1914)

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David Arthur "Dave" Carey (* 8. November 1914 in Coulsdon , Surrey , today London Borough of Croydon , † 18th July 1999 in Croydon ) was a British jazz - drummer , bandleader and jazz researcher.

Live and act

Dave Carey's father was a pianist. In the early 1930s he had his own band, with which he performed in the Croydon area. After the outbreak of World War II , he opened a music store in Streatham before being drafted into military service. In 1946 he opened The Swing Shop in Streatham , where he sold musical instruments and records and which he and his wife Joan expanded to mail order. He also played in dance and jazz bands, in 1947 with Rex Stewart , who was a guest in England and with whom he also recorded in London in September 1949, and in 1948 with Graeme Bell's Australian Jazz Band .

In the same year Carey worked on recordings of Humphrey Lyttelton for Wilco, in 1950 with the boogie-woogie pianist Roy Vaughan ( Oval Boogie ). From September 1948 to September 1949 he was in Lyttleton's band when he was replaced by Bernard Saward. In the mid-1950s he led his own traditional jazz formations, with which he made a number of records for Tempo Records ( Kater Street Rag , 1956) and Decca Records ( I've found a New Baby / Brown Skin Mama , 1956) and in 1957 performed at the Royal Festival Hall . Carey also took part in the recording of pianist Pat Hawes for Tempo. He also worked as a music historian, in collaboration with Albert McCarthy and the six-volume work Jazz Directory (1949–52). He also led his own band in the 1960s.

According to his colleague Pat Hawes, his drumming was influenced by Baby Dodds , but also by drummers from the swing era such as Gene Krupa , Cozy Cole and George Wettling .

In addition to drums, he played vibraphone and washboard.

Publications

  • Jazz Directory. - The Directory of recorded Jazz and Swing Music. Collated and Compiled by Dave Carey, Albert J. McCarthy, Ralph GV Venables. - 6 volumes. The Delphic Press, Fordingbridge 1949-1952; Cassell & Comp., London 1955-1957.

Discographic notes

  • The Dave Carey Jazz Band (10-inch-LP, Tempo, 1955), with John Codd (trumpet), Tony Milliner (trombone), Tony Gibbons (clarinet), Bob Mack (guitar & banjo), Pat Hawes (piano), Eric Starr (bass)
  • Dave Carey Jazz Band: Button Up Your Overcoat ( EP , Tempo)
  • The Complete Sessions 1955-1957 (Lake, 2002)

literature

  • Rex Harris, Brian Rust : Recorded Jazz: A Critical Guide . Penguin Books, London 1958.
  • John Chilton: Who's who of British jazz. Cassell, London 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chilton, Who`s Who in British Jazz, there Croyston is given as the place of death, corrected in Discogs on Croydon.
  2. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 7th edition. Penguin, London 2004, ISBN 0-14-101416-4 .
  3. ↑ a b Pat Hawes: Portrait of the Musician
  4. ↑ Discographic information from Wilco
personal data
SURNAME Carey, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carey, David Arthur (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, jazz researcher and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Coulsdon , Surrey , now the London Borough of Croydon
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1999
Place of death Croydon