Eugene Coy
Eugene "Gene" Coy († around 1965 in California ) was an American jazz musician (drummer, also pianist) who led a Territory Band .
Coy emerged from 1927 as a professional musician. From Amarillo he went on tour with his "Happy Black Aces", not only in the southwest of the United States, but also as far as Canada and Mexico . His wife, Ann or Marge Coy, was a pianist in the band. Between 1929 and 1937 other outstanding musicians from the American Southwest were employed by him, such as Ben Webster , Carl Tati Smith or Dick Wilson ; from 1938 to 1941 Junior Raglin , who then switched to the Duke Ellington Orchestra , was the band's double bass player. In the 1940s, the band operated from San Francisco as "Gene Coy and His Harlem Swing". Recordings of Gene Coy and his band were only available from 1948, when the ensemble's success was already waning.
literature
- Albert McCarthy : Big Band Jazz. Barrie & Jenkins, London 1974, ISBN 0907408702 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
Remarks
- ↑ See Linda Dahl: Stormy Weather. The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen . London 1984, ISBN 0879101288 , p. 31 ( limited preview in Google book search)
Web links
- Dave Oliphant, "COY, EUGENE," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September 4, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
- Eugene Coy at Allmusic (English)
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| SURNAME | Coy, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coy, Gene (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1965 |
| Place of death | California |