John Chilton

John James Chilton (born July 16, 1932 in London - † February 25, 2016 ) was an English jazz author and jazz trumpeter .

Live and act

Chilton came from the working class. His father was a comedian in a music hall. He started playing the cornet when he was 12 and the trumpet when he was 17. After two years with the RAF, he founded his own band in the early 1950s, with which he played in one of the "Butlins" theme parks in Skegness , with comedian Dave Allen, among others. From 1958 to 1963 he played in Bruce Turner ’s Jump Band, about which Jack Gold made the 1961 film "Living Jazz". In the 1960s he played in the big bands of Mike Daniels and Alex Welsh , played with pop bands such as "Swinging Blue Jeans" and founded his own band "Swing Kings" towards the end of the decade, with which he, among other things, played American jazz musicians traveling through as accompanied by Buck Clayton , Ben Webster , Bill Coleman and Charlie Shavers .

In early 1974 he founded the "Feetwarmers", in which the jazz singer (and satirist) George Melly and the clarinetist (and cartoonist) Wally Fawkes played. With the Feetwarmers , which existed until 2003, Chilton undertook worldwide tours, appeared frequently on television and even had its own BBC series in 1983/84 ("Good Time George"). He also wrote a number of well-researched jazz biographies and two “Who's Who of Jazz” (one for traditional US jazz and one for British jazz) and an autobiography in 2007. For his biographies of Louis Jordan and Coleman Hawkins , he received awards from the American Association of Recorded Sound Collections. He received honorary citizenship of New Orleans for his biographies of Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong . For "Liner Notes" for the album " Bunny Berigan " ( Time Life Records 1982, in the series "Jazz Giants") he received a 1983 Grammy . Chilton was also a composer and songwriter.

Works

Books

• with Max Jones : "Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story", da Capo Paperback 1988 (first London 1971), ISBN 0-306-80324-0 , German "The Louis Armstrong Story", Herder 1972
• "Ride Red Ride - the Life of Henry Red Allen, " Continuum International Publishing Group 2000, ISBN 0-8264-4744-9
• " Roy Eldridge , Little Jazz Giant," Continuum International Publishing Group 2003, ISBN 0-8264-6535-8
• "McKinney's Music - A bio-discography of McKinney's Cotton Pickers ", Bloomsbury Bookshop 1978
• "A Jazz Nursery - The Story of the Jenkins' Orphanage Bands in Charleston, South Carolina", Bloomsbury Bookshop 1980
• "Teach Yourself Jazz", Hodder and Stoughton 1979, ISBN 0-340-23847-X (and Random House)
• "Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Story of Bob Crosby 's Bob Cats", Jazz Book Service 1983, ISBN 0-9501290-3-8
• "Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan," University of Michigan Press 1997, ISBN 0-472-08478-X
• "Billie's Blues - A survey of Billie Holiday 's Career", Stein and Day Publishing 1975, da Capo 1989, ISBN 0-306-80363-1
• "The Song of the Hawk - The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins," University of Michigan Press 1990, ISBN 0-472-08201-9
• "Sidney Bechet - the Wizard of Jazz", da Capo 1996, ISBN 0-306-80678-9 (first MacMillan 1987)
• "Who's Who of Jazz - Storyville to Swing Street", da Capo, 4th edition 1985, ISBN 0-306-80243-0 (first Bloomsbury Bookshop 1970)
• "Who's Who of British Jazz", Continuum International Publishing Group 2004, ISBN 0-8264-7234-6
• "Hot Jazz, Warm Feet" (autobiography), London, Northway Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9550908-3-7 .

Sound carrier

• Nuts (1972)
• Son of Nuts (1973)
• It's George (1974)
• Making Whoopee (1982)
• Best of Live (1995)
• Anything Goes (1996)
• Goodtime George
• The Ultimate Melly (2006, with Van Morrison )

Remarks

1. ↑ John Chilton, Grammy award-winning jazz writer, This
2. ↑ under the name "Trog". His most famous character is "Flook" in the "Daily Mail" in the 1960s, for which Melly wrote the text
3. ↑ Chilton continues to play with Fawkes (2007)
4. ↑ Down Beat called him "a master in the craft of research"
5. ↑ Jazz musicians born or raised in the USA before 1920
6. ↑ more precisely a 48-page booklet

Web links

• John Chilton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about John Chilton in the catalog of the German National Library