Dudley Brooks
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Dudley A. "Duke" Brooks (born December 22, 1913 in Los Angeles ; † July 17, 1989 there ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( piano , arrangement , composition ), best remembered as Elvis Presley's pianist remains.
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Brooks comes from a musical family in Los Angeles; his brother Alford was a trumpeter, his youngest brother Bert a drummer and violinist. His father ran a bath house on 28nd Street and was an alcohol smuggler during the prohibition era . From the late 1930s he worked as an arranger in the orchestra of Floyd Ray , with which the first recordings were made, in 1940 he arranged for Les Hite ("Board Meeting"). In the 1940s he worked with Charlie Christian , Duke Ellington , Lionel Hampton , Benny Goodman , arranging Count Basie . In 1956 he was pianist with Stuff Smith , in 1962 with Jack McVea , for whose LP Nothin 'But Jazz Brooks also contributed two tracks ( The Glide / Slow and Easy ) as a soloist. In the field of jazz, he was involved in twelve recording sessions from 1939 to 1962.
Brooks worked full-time in the Paramount studios and was a session pianist at the Radio Recorders Studio in Los Angeles. Brooks wrote the songs Mama and We'll Be Together (1962) for Presley with Charles O'Curran . He also worked as an arranger with Patti Page and as a pianist with Elvis Presley for many years . For Bing Crosby he wrote the song You Gotta Show Me (1951) with Nick Castle ; Brooks 'other songs were I Got the Call , I Found Someone and Dolly's Lullaby (with Buddy Harper , Grace Calixtro ), as well as the Christmas carol (Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man With the Bag (with Hal Stanley, Irving Taylor), which was in popularized by Kay Starr's version in the early 1950s .
Web links
- Dudley Brooks at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Vacher: Swingin 'on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles . 2015, p. 107 ff.
- ^ Jorgensen, Ernst (1998), Elvis Presley: A Life in Music. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 84, 86, 89, 95, 99, 101, 104-105, 130, 133, 136.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brooks, Dudley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brooks, Dudley A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1989 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |