Ebenezer Paul

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Ebenezer Paul (* around 1920; † after 1943) was an American jazz musician ( double bass , also drums ) who played with important musicians in the transition from swing to bebop .

Ebenezer Paul played in the New York jazz scene in the early 1940s - mostly in the sessions at Club Minton's Playhouse and Clark Monroe's Uptown House - with musicians such as Hot Lips Page and Joe Guy ( Trumpet Battle at Minton's ), Frankie Newton (“There 'll Be Some Changes Made ”), Charlie Christian (“ I Got Rhythm ”or“ Guys Got to Go ”), Harry“ Sweets ”Edison (heard as a soloist in“ Hold the Phone ”), Charlie Parker , Allan Tinney and Art Tatum ("Lady Be Good", 1941), also with Don Byas and Thelonious Monk . In mid-1943 he still belonged to the formation The Musical Madcaps ("Rhythm of the Rhythm Band" (1942), with Nick Aldrich, Johnny Cousin, Willie Jones, Al Cowans, Joe Carroll ); then his track is lost. In the field of jazz, he was involved in six recording sessions between 1941 and 1943, according to Tom Lord .

Discographic notes

  • Hot Lips Page & Joe Guy: Trumpet Battle at Minton's
  • Harry Edison, Hot Lips Page & Roy Eldridge: Sweets, Lips & Lots of Jazz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ira Gitler : From Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. Oxford University Press 1985, p. 78
  2. ^ Bob Weir: Looking for Frankie: a bio-discography of the jazz trumpeter Frankie Newton . Cardiff 2003, p. 16.
  3. ↑ See Max Harrison , Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson : The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism . London 2000, # 251
  4. ↑ Lawrence O. Koch: Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker. Bowling Green 1988, p. 20
  5. ↑ See Stuart Nicholson: Essential Jazz Records: Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing. London 2000, p. 412
  6. ↑ See Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. New York: The Free Press 2009, p. 66
  7. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 21, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Ebenezer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH after 1943