Dottie Dodgion

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Dorothy "Dottie" Dodgion (born Giaimo , born September 23, 1929 in Brea , California ) is an American jazz singer and drummer .

Live and act

Dottie Dodgion, who has Sicilian roots, is the daughter of a professional drummer who taught her. As a singer she is self-taught ; at the beginning of her career she sang with Charles Mingus and Nick Esposito . In 1950 she married the bassist Monty Budwig , and in 1952 the alto saxophonist Jerry Dodgion . She began playing the drums professionally when she was stranded on a tour for a comedian in whose program she sang. In the following two decades she worked as a freelance musician in Las Vegas and from 1961 in New York, a. a. with Benny Goodman (1961), the Billy Mitchell - Al Gray band, Wild Bill Davison , Al Cohn / Zoot Sims , Marian McPartland (1964) and Ruby Braff .

After their divorce, she moved to California in the mid-1970s, where she continued her career as a studio musician (including on The Today Show and the Dick Cavett Show ). From 1976 to 1978 she was musical director of the Rogue & Jar jazz club in Washington DC; In 1978 she was the drummer at the first Woman's Jazz Festival in Kansas City. From 1979 she lived again in New York, where she played with Melba Liston in 1980 , before she returned to California in 1984 and was again active as a singer. For the label Arbors Records , for which she worked as an accompanist, she recorded under her own name in 1994, accompanied by Jackie Coon and Johnny Varro . In the field of jazz, she was involved in seven recording sessions between 1972 and 2000, with Ruby Braff and Marian McPartland as well as with Wild Bill Davison . She also performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival .

Discographic notes

  • Dottie Dodgion Sings (Arbors, 1994)
  • This Is What I'm Here for (Envirophonic Records, 2003)

literature

  • Wayne Enstice & Janis Stockhouse: Jazzwomen: Conversations With Twenty-One Musicians, Volume 1 . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
  • Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Dodgion, Dottie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodgion, Dorothy; Giaimo, Dottie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer and drummer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brea