Ed Shaughnessy

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Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (* 29. January 1929 in Jersey City , † 24. May 2013 in Calabasas ) was an American jazz - drummer .

Career

From 1943 Shaughnessy first learned to play the drums autodidactically, but then received instruction from his friend, Sid Catlett . He began his professional career in 1946 with Jack Teagarden and in 1948 with George Shearing , with Georgie Auld and Charlie Ventura (1948 to 1950). In the 1950s he was a member of the bands of Benny Goodman (European tour in 1950, during which he participated in the Roy Eldridge and His Little Jazz Vol. 1 session) and Tommy Dorsey (1950), Lucky Millinder (1951) and worked with Johnny Richards . Then he began to work as a studio musician in New York. At the end of the 1950s, he had the group Jazz Four with Teddy Charles . At the same time he studied piano, cornet and composition in the late 1950s.

In the early 1960s he was a partner of Count Basie (in five album recordings) and became a member of the orchestra of the Tonight Show under Doc Severinsen , to which he belonged for thirty years until 1992 (from 1972 in Los Angeles). In addition, Shaughnessy was a sought-after big band musician. In 1962 he was a member of the Orchestra USA . He worked u. a. with Gene Ammons , Roy Eldridge , Billie Holiday , Mundell Lowe , Teo Macero , Charles Mingus , Shirley Scott , Jack Sheldon and Horace Silver and can be heard on over five hundred albums.

From 1974 he also led his own band, the Energy Force . In the 1980s and 90s he also taught at New York University and gave courses at Skidmore College, but had also previously taught at numerous clinics . In 1990 his album Jazz in the Pocket was released (with his quintet Jazz in the Pocket , Tom Peterson , Bruce Paulson , Tom Ranier , John Leitham ).

Shaughnessy also composed ( Nigerian Walk , Blues Detambour ).

literature

  • Kunzler: Jazz-Lexikon , 2002
  • Clem DeRosa , Ed Shaughnessy: Show Drumming: The Essential Guide to Playing Drumset for Live Shows and Musicals . Hal Leonard Corp, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Drummer World
personal data
SURNAME Shaughnessy, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaughnessy, Edwin Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2013
Place of death Calabasas