Harry Shields

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Harry Shields (born June 9, 1899 in New Orleans , † January 19, 1971 there ) was an American musician ( clarinet ) of New Orleans jazz . According to the Billboard , he had "an authentic feel for the early period" of jazz .

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Harry Shields came from a family of musicians; he was the younger brother of the jazz clarinetist Larry Shields (1893-1953). He spent most of his career in New Orleans. In his youth, Harry Shields tried to hear Johnny Dodds play from outside (he was white) in Nolte's Hall , which was near his residential area. From the Claiborne Canal he heard black and Creole musicians like Sam Morgan , Kid Rena and Punch Miller . While his brother Larry made a career out of town with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band , Harry played in various bands such as Emmett Hardy's at the Midway Pavilion . His brother Eddie Shields was a pianist; The drummer was the young Monk Hazel .

In the following years Shields played in Norman Brownlees Orchestra of New Orleans, with which he made the first recordings in 1925. a. with Tom Brown and Johnny Wiggs . Further recordings in which Shields was involved did not come back until the 1950s, when with Papa Jack Laine , Sharkey Bonano , Joe Mares , George Hartman , the Dukes of Dixieland , Lee Collins , Monk Hazel, Doc Souchon , Santo Pecora , Al Hirt , George Girard and Emile Christian .

In 1954 Shields played the tracks "Singin 'the Blues" and " Alice Blue Gown " for the EP Clarinet - New Orleans Style (Melodisc) under his own name (with Armand Hug , Chink Martin , Abbie Brunies ). In 1959 he made guest appearances with Bonano, Hug, Percy Humphrey , Alcide Pavageau , Sherwood Mangiapane and Louis Barbarin at Art Ford's Jazz Party . In the 1960s he played with Tony Parenti and in Alvin Alcorn ’s Jazz Band; he also performed in the Preservation Hall . Shields wrote the title "Clarinet Jam". In the field of jazz he was involved in 54 recording sessions between 1925 and 1970.

Jane Bunnett counted Harry Shields among her role models.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Colin Larkin : The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Cover . Virgin 2004, p. 791.
  2. ^ Billboard, Sept. 11, 1954, p. 30; Review of the album Johnny Wiggs & His New Orleans Kings (Southland)
  3. ↑ Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts , edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny , Franz Kerschbaumer . Boston, Northeastern University Press, 2012.
  4. ^ Charles B. Hersch: Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, p. 115.
  5. ^ New Orleans & Chicago jazz: a pamphlet published for the Discographical Society . ed. from the Discographical Society, Clifford Jones, 1947, p. 9.
  6. ↑ a b c Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 29, 2017)
  7. ↑ The other two titles came from the same band, only without Harry Shields' participation.
  8. ^ William Carter: Preservation Hall: Music from the Heart . London, New York: Cassell, 1989, p. 99.
  9. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1956
  10. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
personal data
SURNAME Shields, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1971
Place of death New Orleans