Lady Will Carr

Lady Will Carr (actually Lady Willie Carr , born April 24, 1922 in Texarkana , † between 1963 and 1971 in California ) was an American jazz pianist who appeared in the Los Angeles jazz scene especially in the 1940s.

Lady Will Carr accompanied the vocal trio The V’s (or Ivy, Vern & Von ) from 1944 . Then she played in Los Angeles in the trumpeter McLure's band "Red Mack" Morris . In 1946 she was involved in several recording sessions, first in April with the Charles Mingus octet ("Asby de la Zouch" / "Love on a Greyhound Bus") for the local label 4-Star , which were later released several times internationally. Later re-released recordings were also made with a similar line-up ( e.g. Pipe Dream , a variant of Weird Nightmare ) and with their own trio with Irving Ashby and Charles Mingus ( After Hours ). In the same year, recordings with Lucky Thompson were made for 4-Star . She was also in the recording studio with singer Bob Parrish (“Full Moon and Empty Arms”), with Al Hibbler / Harry Carney 's All Stars, the Harper Brinson Band (with Rabon Tarrant). She was an alcoholic and drowned under the influence of alcohol on a fishing trip.

literature

• Gerard J. Hoogeveen A Mysterious Lady in Jazz Names & Numbers H. 59 (October 2011), pp. 25-27
• Ray Astbury & Mark Cantor More on Lady Will Carr Names & Numbers H. 60 (January 2012), pp. 2-4.

Web links

• Lady Will Carr at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues: A Regional Experience . 2013, p. 314
2. ↑ The V’s , in: The Billboard Music Yearbook 1944 , p. 322
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
4. ↑ Jan Evensmo The Tenor Saxophon of Lucky Thompson 2015, p. 16
5. ^ Peter Vacher: Swingin 'on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles . 2015, p. 107 ff.