Joe Guy

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Joe Guy (born September 20, 1920 in Birmingham (Alabama) ; † 1961 or 1962 there) was an American jazz trumpeter who is remembered primarily as the partner and dealer of the singer Billie Holiday .

Live and act

Joe Guy, whose trumpet playing was heavily influenced by Roy Eldridge , played in the Teddy Hill Orchestra in 1938 , where he replaced Dizzy Gillespie . He was then a soloist in October 1939 in the short-lived big band of Coleman Hawkins ( Meet Doctor Foo / Fine Dinner ). In 1941, Guy worked in the sessions of Charlie Christian , Thelonious Monk , Hot Lips Page , Don Byas , Roy Eldridge and others. a. at New York's Minton's Playhouse . Guy worked in the bands of Lucky Millinder , Charlie Barnet and Cootie Williams during this time ; he persuaded Williams in 1942 to record some of Monk's compositions. In 1945/46 he was briefly in a relationship with Billie Holiday , with whom he also recorded; he also took part in her appearance in June 1946 with Jazz at the Philharmonic at New York's Carnegie Hall . Guy can also be heard on recordings by Clyde Bernhardt with Leonard Feather 's Blue Six (1945). After a drug trafficking conviction in 1947, Joe Guy disappeared from the music scene and was forgotten; he died in his hometown of Birmingham at the age of 41.

Discographic notes

  • Coleman Hawkins: A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (RCA)
  • Don Byas: Midnight at Minton’s (High Note, 1941) recorded at Minton's Playhouse, with Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke , Joe Guy u. a.
  • Billie Holiday: The Complete American Decca Recordings (GRP, 1944-50)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Donald Clarke: Billie Holiday - Wishing on the Moon . Eine Biographie, Piper Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-492-03756-9 and Joe Evans, Christopher Brooks: Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues , p. 79
personal data
SURNAME Guy, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH December 1961 or January 1962
Place of death Birmingham, Alabama