Dewey Johnson (musician)

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Dewey Johnson (born November 6, 1939 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania - † June 26, 2018 ) was an American jazz trumpeter .

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Johnson came from a musical, African-American family in Philadelphia. His older brothers performed as trumpeters, which prompted him to learn the instrument in high school as well. His role models in jazz were the trumpeters Miles Davis , Clifford Brown and Donald Byrd ; Due to his affinity for spirituality , the music of John Coltrane eventually became his main influence. In 1960 he came to New York City for the first time .

After stays in his hometown and on the west coast in Los Angeles and then in San Francisco , Johnson returned to New York in 1963; there he first played with Byron Allen . In 1964 he played in the quintet of pianist Paul Bley ( Barrage , ESP-Disk ). The following year he was a member of John Coltrane's ensemble, with whom the saxophonist recorded his free jazz album Ascension . In June 1982 and February 1985 he took part in two recording sessions of percussionist Paul Murphy with Jimmy Lyons , Karen Borca and Mary Anne Driscoll ( Red Snapper: Paul Murphy at CBS , released by Cadence Jazz Records , and Cloudburst , respectively ). Johnson continued his career as a freelance improviser (including with the pianist Mary Ann Driscoll) in the following years, but without taking up again.

Lexical entries

  • David Glen Such: Avant-garde Jazz Musicians: Performing “out There” . University of Iowa Press, 1994
  • Grove Music Online - The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Pierre Crépon: The Alphabet Of Dewey Johnson 1939-2018. In: The Wire Magazine. July 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Dewey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2018