Joel Helleny

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Joel Helleny (born October 23, 1956 in Paris , Texas , † June 20, 2009 in Herrin , Illinois ) was an American jazz trombonist of mainstream jazz .

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Helleny started his music career in the Middle East of the USA; first recordings were made in 1976/77 with the band Memphis Nighthawks around saxophonist Ron DeWar ( Jazz Lips , Delmark ). In the following years he worked in the New York area a. a. with Freddie Moore , Warren Vaché , Jonny Holtzman , in the New York Studio Jazz Ensemble around Peter Ecklund , Dan Barrett , Dill Jones and Howard Alden , also with Doc Cheatham , Randy Sandke , Jean-Loup Longnon , Toshio Oida and in the Widespread Jazz Orchestra , in the Gully Low Jazz Band ( Down to Earth , with Clarence Hutchinrider , Frank Vignola , among others ) and Vince Giordano 's Nighthawks. With Sammy Rimington and David Paquette he formed the Galvanized Jazz Band .

In 1984 he was in Bob Wilber's band on the soundtrack of the music film The Cotton Club , to be heard in " East St. Louis Toodle-Oo " and "Ring Dem Bells". In 1986 he performed at the Chicago Jazz Summit with musicians such as Jimmy McPartland , Ken Peplowski , George Masso , Yank Lawson and Franz Jackson at the JVC Jazz Festival . In the 1990s he was still involved in recordings with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Marty Grosz , Masanobu Ikemiya's American Ragtime Orchestra , Kenny Davern , Dick Hyman (Soundtrack Everyone Says I Love You , 1996), Scott Hamilton and Chuck Wilson ; He also appeared in 1990 as a musician in the musical Girl Crazy . In 1995 and again in 1998 he made a guest appearance with The New York Allstars with a Louis Armstrong tribute in Hamburg. At the end of 1995 Helleny's only album, Lip Service , was recorded, which he recorded for Arbors Jazz under his own name with Dan Barrett, Richard Wyands , Ray Macchiarola (guitar), Murray Wall (bass) and Leroy Williams . Scott Yanow praised the lyrical play Hellenys, which musically strikes the bow from bop to swing. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 54 recording sessions between 1976 and 2000, most recently with David Berger & The Sultans of Swing.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's Lip Service album on Allmusic . Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 4, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Helleny, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2009
Place of death Mistress (illinois)