Henry Bridges

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Henry "Hank" Bridges (* around 1908 in Oklahoma City ; † July 27, 1986 ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Bridges played with Don Byas early in his career , then with Charlie Christian in Territory bands in the second half of the 1930s ; In 1938 he toured with Alphonso Trent . He worked in Leslie Sheffield's Territory Band in the late 1930s, which also included Charlie Christian and trumpeter Bernard "Buddy" Anderson . From 1940 he was a member of Harlan Leonard and His Rockets ; with the band first recordings were made in Chicago and New York. Bridges was considered the orchestra's outstanding soloist. He did his military service in the United States and Europe. After the war he worked in California; u. a. he was involved in recordings of singers Julia Lee ("Gotta Gimme Whatcha Out", 1946; # 3 in the R&B charts ), Clifford Blivens (1949), Peppy Prince , Helen Humes and Damita Jo (1950). In the field of jazz he was involved in eight recording sessions between 1940 and 1950. He spent his later years in Los Angeles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data at Jazz Archeology
  2. ^ Peter Broadbent: Charlie Christian: Solo Flight: The Story of the Seminal Electric Guitarist . 2003, p. 67.
  3. ↑ LaBudde Special Collections - Bernard "Step-Buddy" Anderson Collection at the University of Missouri-Kansas City ( memento of the original from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.umkc.edu
  4. ↑ Cf. u. a. Arrigo Arrigoni: Jazz foto di gruppo. Mito, storia, spettacolo nella 2010, page 231 and Albert J. McCarthy: Big Band Jazz 1983, page 150.
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 7, 2015)
  6. ^ Storyville 1980 - Issues 87-98 - page 46
personal data
SURNAME Bridges, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bridges, Hank (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1986