Herman Wright

Herman Wright (* around 1930) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ).

Live and act

Wright, who was from Detroit, played in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s with Terry Pollard and Terry Gibbs , with whom he moved to New York in 1956. He worked there in the late 1950s a. a. with Eddie Barefield , Cab Calloway , Lodi Carr , Dorothy Ashby and in Yusef Lateef's quintet ( Cry! ... Tender , 1959). In the following decade, he also worked on recordings of Doug Watkins , George Shearing and Charles Mingus , whom he in 1962 in Birdlandrepresented on a title on bass when he was playing the piano. He has also worked with Al Gray , Billy Mitchell , Dave Burns , Herman Foster , Chet Baker , Sonny Stitt and Mike Longo . In the early 1970s he had engagements in New York jazz clubs with the pianist Nat Jones ; he also led his own trio in the jazz club Angry Squire . Around 1976 he played in Cedar Walton's trio ; In 1978 he performed with Archie Shepp in Paris ( Maple Leaf Rag ), in 1988 he played in his quintet with Chet Baker ( In Memory of ) and with the singer Annette Lowman ( Lover Man ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 51 recording sessions from 1955 to 1988. a. with Allen Ginsberg ( Ginsberg Sings Blake , 1969). The drummer Austin "Paris" Wright is his son.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 13, 2016)
2. ^ New York Magazine, June 25, 1973
3. ^ Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Free Press 2009
4. ^ Paris Wright (Iridium)