Junior Raglin
Al Sears , Shelton Hemphill , Junior Raglin, Django Reinhardt , Lawrence Brown , Harry Carney , Johnny Hodges in the New York Jazz Club Aquarium, around November 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
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Oscar Pettiford and Junior Raglin, appearance at the New York Jazz Club Aquarium, approx. November 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Junior Raglin , actually Alvin Raglin , (* 16th March 1917 in Omaha , Nebraska ; † 10. November 1955 in Boston ) was an American jazz - bassist .
Junior Raglin played guitar at the age of three and later bass. He worked early in his short career in the jazz band Eugene Coys from 1938 to 1941. In November of that year he replaced the on tuberculosis diseased Jimmy Blanton in the Duke Ellington Orchestra from. Before Blanton went to the hospital, he'd worked with him in tandem for a few evenings to get a feel for the band. Raglin played for Ellington from 1941 to November 1945 , then only sporadically (as in a duo with Art Tatum 1945 and Edmond Hall 's Swingtet in 1946) and then withdrew from the jazz scene.
literature
- James Lincoln Collier: Duke Ellington . Berlin, Ullstein, 1998
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Bielefeld catalog jazz 1988 and 2001
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Raglin, junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raglin, Alvin (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Omaha , Nebraska |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1955 |
| Place of death | Boston |