Lawrence Dixon
Lawrence W. "Beau" Dixon (born September 5, 1895 in Chillicothe , Ohio , † 1970 in Chicago ) was an American jazz musician ( guitar , banjo , arrangement ).
Live and act
Dixon, who came from a family of musicians, first worked in Columbus from 1924 on with Sammy Stewart's Ten Knights of Syncopation , with whom he made his first recordings for Paramount, then in Chicago with Vance Dixon's Jazz Maniacs (1926/27), Fess Williams (1928), Dave Peyton, Paul Jordan, Clarence Moore and Grant Williams (1930). From 1931 to 1937 he played first as a banjo player, then as a rhythm guitarist with Earl Hines , in whose orchestra he also occasionally acted as an arranger, as in "Cavernism" and "Bubbling Over". In the mid-1950s he reappeared on the music scene as a member of Franz Jackson and the Original Jass All Stars, with whom he performed until the late 1960s. In the field of jazz he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1924 and 1966. He died in Michael Reese Hospital after a long illness .
Web links
- Encyclopedic entry
- Lawrence Dixon at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jet, February 12, 1970
- ^ Uli Heier, Rainer E. Lotz : The Banjo on Record: A Bio-discography . 1993, p. 138
- ^ Candice Watkins, Arnett Howard: Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State . 2012, p. 117
- ^ Gunther Schuller : The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 . 1989, p. 276
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 11, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dixon, Lawrence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dixon, Lawrence W .; Dixon, Beau (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (guitar, banjo, arrangement) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chillicothe , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1970 |
| Place of death | Chicago |