Floyd Campbell

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Floyd Campbell (born September 17, 1901 in Helena , Arkansas , † September 30, 1993 ) was an American jazz musician ( drums , vocals ) and band leader who was active in the music scenes of St. Louis and Chicago .

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Floyd Campbell, he gained his first musical experience in his father's bar. At the invitation of the pianist Cranston Hamilton, he moved to St. Louis; there he played in the mid-1920s with Charlie Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs (recordings for OKeh 1924), Zutty Singleton , Fate Marable and Dewey Jackson's Peacock Orchestra (recordings for Vocalion 1926). From the end of the decade he led his own band, Floyd Campbell and His Gangbusters and Singing Synco Seven Orchestra (1927, with Mouse Randolph , among others ), with whom he first performed on river steamers in St. Louis. 1928 played as a soloist with Floyd Campbell for two days as part of a battle of the bands on the SS St Paul Louis Armstrong .

Campbell then worked with his band in Chicago in the 1930s; in 1940 there were recordings for Bluebird Records ("What You Want Poor Me to Do?"), in which Campbell also acted as a singer ("Blow My Blues Away"). He also played with Jabbo Smith during this time . In 1945 he accompanied his orchestra (including Sax Mallard and Albert Wynn played) Lurlean Hunter , in 1947 the singer Jimmy "Baby Face" Lewis at a session for Aladdin Records . In the field of jazz he was involved in six recording sessions between 1924 and 1947. In his later years, Campbell worked at the Post. He conducted several interviews with the Chicago Jazz Institute.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ See Dennis Owsley: City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973 . 2006
  2. ↑ See Robert W. Harwood: I Went Down to St. James Infirmary . 2008, page 166.
  3. ↑ In August 1940 with the cast Louis Aceheart (tp), Scoops Carry , Gordon Jones (as) Al Washington (ts) Merle Young (p) Ernest Smith (b) Floyd Campbell (d, vcl). See Tom Lord The Jazz Discography
  4. ↑ DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology , edited by Frank Alkyer (Interview with Milt Hinton . See also Hear Me Talkin 'to Ya by Nat Shapiro , Nat Hentoff .
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 28, 2015)
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SURNAME Campbell, Floyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drums, vocals) and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Helena , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1993