Eddie Duran
Eddie Duran (born September 6, 1925 in San Francisco as Edward Lozano Duran , † November 22, 2019 ) was an American jazz guitarist .
Live and act
Duran first learned the piano and switched to the guitar in 1937; at the age of 15 he made his first professional appearance. After two years of military service in the Navy, he played in San Francisco with Freddie Slack , Flip Phillips , Stan Getz , Cal Tjader , Charlie Parker , George Shearing , Red Norvo , Ron Crotty , Jerry Coker , Allen Smith and Earl Hines ( Another Monday Date ) . Around 1955 Duran was a member of Vince Guaraldi's trio with Dean Reilly .
In 1957, Fantasy Records produced a first album under his own name, Jazz Guitarist , on which the bandleader played with saxophonist and clarinet player Howie Dudune (the blurb was from jazz author Ralph J. Gleason ). From 1960 to 1967 he led his own trio; In the early 1970s he took part in the recordings of Cal Tjader; from 1976 to 1980 he was a member of Benny Goodman's band . In the early 1980s he worked for Tania Maria . Further recordings under his own name were made for Concord Jazz . After an episode in New York, where he led a quartet and also worked as a hairdresser, he returned to his hometown in the 1990s, where he performed with his own quartet. He also recorded with Herbie Steward , Eiji Kitamura and singer Dee Bell ; In 1995 he played with Mel Martin , Allen Farnham , Bill Douglass and Vince Lateano at the Concord tribute concert for Carl Jefferson ("Like Someone in Love"). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 37 recording sessions between 1954 and 2013, according to Tom Lord .
Discographic notes
- Jazz Guitarist (Fantasy / OJC, 1957)
- Glaza (Concord Jazz, 1979)
- One By One (Concord Jazz, 1987)
- Eddie Rides Again , (Mad Eddie, 2000)
- Mad and Eddie Duran (Milestone, 2013), et al. a. with Mark Levine
Lexical entry
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . London: Penguin 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9 (8th edition)
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- Richard S. Grell biography in Allmusic
- Eddie Duran 1925 - 2019. JazzTimes, December 11, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eddie Duran San Francisco go to jazz guitarist, dies at 94th San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 28, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duran, Eddie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duran, Edward Lozano (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd November 2019 |