E. Parker McDougal

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Elmer Parker McDougal (born August 6, 1924 in Gary (Indiana) , † July 18, 1994 in Chicago ) was an American jazz musician (tenor saxophone) who was active in the music scene in Chicago. Stylistically, he was based on Gene Ammons in his saxophone playing .

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McDougal grew up in Chicago. As a schoolboy he first played the clarinet and toured with blues bands in the south. He attended North Carolina College in Durham around 1944 on a scholarship , where he studied sociology; then he completed a psychology degree at Chicago Teachers College . His first recordings were made in Chicago in 1949, when he played in the band of singer / pianist Johnny Perry. In the 1950s he played with King Fleming and Boots Robinson , among others ; He also took part in jam sessions at The Pershing jazz club (with Johnny Griffin, among others ). In 1960 he recorded the single Mackin '/ Foxxy Minor for Tommy "Madman" Jones for local label M&M . In his main occupation, he worked for many years as an employment counselor for state authorities.

With Jay C. Peters he founded the formation Chicago Hardcore Jazz ; In 1971 he was a guest soloist with Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen . In 1975 McDougal presented the album Initial Visit (Grits Records) with Chicago Hard-Core Jazz , on which Dan Shapera, Bill Yancey , Jim Cottrell, Steve McCall , Wilbur Campbell , Willie Pickens , Fred "Bud" Hudson and Jay J. Pickens between 1974 and 1980 had participated in changing line-ups. In 1981 the live album Blues Tour followed , also on Grits Records, u. a. with guitarist George Freeman . In the field of jazz he was involved in seven recording sessions between 1949 and 1980, in addition to the album My Ancestors by Chicago Beau . In 1991 he also appeared in a tenor battle with Lin Halliday . McDougal, who lived on Chicago's South Side, died at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center when he was 69.


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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gene Ammons himself named his early composition McDougal's Sprout (1947, including with Junior Mance ) after E. Parker McDougal. See Interview with Junior Mance: Cadence, Volume 20 , Issue 7, 1994
  2. ↑ a b c L. Beauchamp: Interview with E. Parker McDougal . In: Lincoln T. Beauchamp, Jr .: BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual . Urbana, Chicago 2010, p. 131 ff.
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 31, 2016)
  4. ^ Jazz Forum, issues 98-103, 1986
  5. ↑ Black World / Negro Digest Aug. 1973, p. 55
  6. ↑ a b Obituary in the Chicago Tribune
  7. ↑ John Litweiler: Concert review (1991) in Chicago Reader
personal data
SURNAME McDougal, E. Parker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDougal, Elmer Parker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Gary (Indiana)
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1994
Place of death Chicago