Garland Finney
Garland Finney (born November 17, 1916 in Los Angeles , † December 20, 1946 there ) was an American jazz pianist.
Finney was alongside Marlowe Morris as a pianist in the jazz film Jammin 'the Blues (1944) by Gjon Mili (" On the Sunny Side of the Street "). He also recorded for Norman Granz's first Jazz-at-the-Philharmonic sessions in 1944/45 . In 1946 he took in the band of Maxwell Davis with the blues singer Jo Jo Adams on several records for Aladdin .
Charles Mingus valued him (and Dexter Gordon as well ) and regretted that he did not go to New York but stayed in California, where there would have been recordings (Mingus spoke of his youth in the late 1930s). Mingus himself played with Finney in Little Harlem in Watts (Los Angeles) in mid-1945 . In September 1942 he played in a band led by Barney Bigard with Kid Ory , Red Mack , Mingus (under the name Charles Ingles), Jackie Kelso , Henry Tucker Green (dr, as Tommie Tucker) in Trouville in Los Angeles.
Web links
- Garland Finney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Garland Finney in Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Among others with Illinois Jacquet , Howard McGhee , Red Callender , Gene Krupa , Willie Smith .
- ↑ John Goodman, Mingus Speaks . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2013, p. 144. Mingus' discussion of Mingus with Gordon's about Finney is mentioned on p. 147 by Mingus. According to Mingu's memory, he did not die until the 1950s.
- ^ Peter Vacher, Swingin 'on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2015, p. 232
- ^ Metronome, quoted from Peter Vacher, Swinging on Central Avenue , p. 122
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Finney, Garland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1946 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |