George Maycock

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George Maycock (born September 9, 1917 in Colón , Panama , † August 20, 1979 in New York City ) was a Panamanian jazz pianist ; He is considered to be one of the first Afro-American musicians in Central Europe after the Second World War to authentically hear modern jazz not on concert tours, but in intimate appearances in jazz clubs .

Live and act

Maycock has been playing swing jazz in Panama with his band Chimbombo since 1940 . Maycock and his band came to Spain in 1949 with the Cuban Jaime Camino's dance and music show . Together with the trumpeter Boogie Sergeant and drummer Big Fletchit , who played with Camino and stayed in Europe, the “Chic Combo” operated with the Jamaican bassist Noel George Gillespie first from Basel , then from Cologne to go on tour. Occasionally saxophonist Jack Poll played with the quartet before Wilton Gaynair joined in 1956 and the "George Maycock Quintet" was formed. This band played modern jazz , continued to perform nationally and was rated as "the best black combo in this country" ( Rheinische Post 1980). Maycock later moved to Düsseldorf , where he formed a center of the local jazz scene, but since the 1960s increasingly had to play in dance bands. Sergeant and Gillespie moved into civil professions; in the seventies Maycock toured in a trio with Fletchit and Ali Haurand and played in downtown Düsseldorf with Jörn Behrens and Ralph Kleine-Tebbe.

Selection discography

  • George Maycock Chic Combo: Walking Sam / That's Right - What's Wrong. (Phillips, shellac)
  • George Maycock Trio. (Ring Records, 1975)
  • George Maycock Trio: Downtown Trio. (Rillophon, 1978)

swell

  • Peter K. Kirchhof (editor): Jazz City Düsseldorf . City Museum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 2003.
  • Rainer E. Lotz: Discography of German Dance Music. Vol. 6, Lotz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-9802656-5-X . (detailed discography therein)
  • Torsten Eßer: A Panamanian in Düsseldorf - George Maycock in memoriam. In: Jazzpodium. 10/2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhof: Jazz City Düsseldorf. P. 75.
  2. ↑ Where is Panama actually ...? The life and work of Big Fletchit. drummermagazin.de, February 18, 2009, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; Retrieved December 30, 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Maycock, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Panamanian jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Colón (province)
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1979
Place of death New York City