Harry Dial

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Harry Dial (* 17th February 1907 in Birmingham (Alabama) ; † 25. January 1987 in New York City ) was an American jazz - drummer (also percussion , vibraphone , vocals , composition ) and bandleader .

Live and act

Harry Dial gained his first experience as a drummer in St. Louis with Dewey Jackson in 1920 , worked with Lawrence Marable around 1925 and then from the mid-1920s mainly with Fats Waller ("Don't Let It Bother You") and Louis Armstrong , whom he did also served as musical director in the 1930s. Dial recorded six records for Vocalion under his own name in 1930 as Harry Dial's Blusicians with woodwind player Omer Simeon , banjo player Eursten Woodfork, trumpeter Shirley Clay and alto saxophonist Lester Boone .

From the 1940s he was a member of Louis Jordan's band Tympany Five , in which he also played maracas . At the end of the decade he recorded for Decca Prince’s Boogie , one of the early versions of Diddy Wah Diddy on the B-side . In the field of jazz Dial participated in 30 recording sessions between 1926 and 1965, except for the aforementioned with Ella Fitzgerald and Junie Cobb . With the trumpeter Zilner Randolph he wrote the song Don't Play Me Cheap for Armstrong and the song Catchin 'as Catch Can for the singer Bea Booze , which she recorded for Decca in 1942. In the 1960s there was a new edition of his Blusicians with the pianist Jimmy Reynolds . In his later years, Dial wrote the autobiography All This Jazz about Jazz .

He is not to be confused with the blues and country guitarist and songwriter Harry Dial.

Discographic notes

  • Chicago 1929–1930: That's My Stuff
  • Omer Simeon / Dixie Rhythm Kings / Harry Dial / Alex Hill / Reuben Reeves (Decca)
  • Bennie Moten KC Orchestra 1929–1931 / Harry Dial Quartet 1946. (1970)
  • Buster Tolliver with the Harry Dial Trio (Yorkshire Records), with Hayes Alvis
  • Jazz a la Carte (Yorkshire Records, 1965), with Doc Cheatham , Charles Frazier, Rudy Powell , Buster Tolliver, Beverly Peer , arrangements by Dick Vance & Edgar Sampson .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Hilton R. Schleman ( Rhythm on Record , Greenwood Press, 1978) Dial was born in Chicago, where he met Jabbo Smith worked.
  2. ↑ Gerald Lyn: Early Miles Davis and American Culture , p. 33
  3. ^ Arthur Bradley: On And Off the Bandstand: A Collection of Essays Related to the Great Bands , p. 89
  4. ↑ Harry Dial on Red Hot Jazz
  5. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  6. ↑ The LP contained six tracks from a radio recording by Harry Dial with Ruben Reeves , Harris Prince and Henry Jones. The LP was produced exclusively for members of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors .
personal data
SURNAME Dial, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1987
Place of death New York City