George Orendorff
George Orendorff (born March 18, 1906 in Atlanta , Georgia , † 1984 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz trumpeter .
Live and act
George Orendorff first played the guitar before switching to the cornet and was a school friend of Eddie South , Wallace Bishop and Lionel Hampton . During school he played in a dance band. In the mid-1920s, he toured with the Helen Dewey Show , which took him to Los Angeles . There he first played as a soloist in the orchestra of Paul Howard (recordings for Victor Records 1929) before moving to the orchestra of Les Hite , which played in the Cotton Club of Los Angeles and contributed to film soundtracks. In 1930 Louis Armstrong hired him for his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra , with which he recorded for Okeh Records in 1931/32 . During the Second World War he served in the US Army; after the war he worked at the post office and as a functionary of the American Federation of Musicians. Further recordings were made in the 1940s with Maxwell Davis , Ike Lloyd and T-Bone Walker . In 1970 he last performed with Armstrong at the Shrine Auditorium in Pasadena. In the field of jazz he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1929 and 1970.
Web links
- Eugene Chadbourne : George Orendorff at Allmusic (English)
- George Orendorff at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100253599
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 28, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orendorff, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlanta |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |