Dick Noel (trombonist)
Richard "Dick" Noel (* 1926 ; † 1989 ) was an American jazz trombonist who was mainly active as a studio musician in Los Angeles.
Noel was a member of popular American swing bands from the early 1940s, initially with Les Brown from 1943 , with whom the first recordings were made in 1943 during a live recording from the Hollywood Palladium. From 1945 he played with Tommy Dorsey and 1946 with Harry James , 1951-1953 again with Les Brown in Los Angeles. In the following years he worked there as a session musician, u. a. heard on recordings by Frank Sinatra / Axel Stordahl (1952), Ray Anthony , June Christy / Pete Rugolo , Buddy DeFranco , Fred Katz , Keely Smith , Jack Teagarden , Lucy Ann Polk , John Towner Williams , Bob Thompson , Maxwell Davis , Dick Cathcart , Paul Weston , at Billy May with Anita O'Day (1959) and Ella Fitzgerald / (1961), also with Greg McRitchie , The Four Freshmen , Marty Paich and Skip Martin . In the early 1960s he was still working with Billy Eckstine , Frank Capp , Louis Bellson ( Swings Jule Styne ), Dave Pell , Dean Martin / Nelson Riddle ( This Time I'm Swingin ' ), Glen Gray , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Johnny Williams , The Modernaires ( Play Tribute to Glenn Miller ), Al Hirt , Elmer Bernstein ( Movie & TV Themes ) and Johnny Mandel ( The Sandpiper , 1965)
Under his own name, Noel and his band Dick Noel & The Academy Brass released the album Alright-Okay-You Win around 1968 , with jazz numbers like “I Found a New Baby”, “When My Sugar Walks Down the Street”, “ Thoroughly Modern” Millie ”and“ Dindi ”arranged by Billy Byers . He also played in trombone ensembles around 1970 and wrote compositions for trombone, such as “Concert Piece for trombone quartet”. The discographer Tom Lord lists Noel in 267 recording sessions between 1943 and 1965, u. a. also with Boyd Raeburn , Ziggy Elman (1947) and Herb Jeffries .
Web links
- Allmusic
- Dick Noel at Discogs (English)
- Dick Noel and The Academy Brass at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota, Volumes 66-67. George Banta Company, 1973
- ^ PTM., Volume 68 Cover Piano Trade Publishing, 1971
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 28, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noel, Dick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Noel, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and studio musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1926 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |