Leon Sash

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Leon Sash (born October 19 1922 , † 25. November 1979 ) was an American jazz - accordionist .

Live and act

Sash lost sight at the age of eleven; as a teenager he learned to play the accordion and began performing as a professional musician at the age of 16. In 1954 he recorded several 78s for EmArcy Records , which later appeared as the LP The Master and earned him recognition from Nat Hentoff and Barry Ulanov . An album for the Storyville label followed in 1956 ( This is the Jazz Accordion! ). In 1957 he appeared as the first accordion player at the Newport Jazz Festival ; the recording appeared on the record side of a Verve album, coupled with a Newport recording by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio ( Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport ). In 1962, Sash also worked with a formation of three accordionists, in addition to his lead accordion with a bass accordion and a cello accordion.

Also in 1962, Sash recorded a live album, recorded at the Velvet Heart Club in Chicago, and the Columbia album Hi-Fi Holiday for Accordion: Twin Accordions of Leon Sash . In 1967 the accordionist released another and final LP, the studio album I Remember Newport , on Delmark Records , with his wife Lee Morgan (bass) and Ed Uhlig (drums). The album received mostly popular jazz standards like Misty , Pennies from Heaven , Polka Dots and Moonbeams, and Our Love Is Here to Stay . He continued to perform in clubs until his death in 1979. In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 1954 and 1967. Sash was one of the few accordionists influenced by bop along with Art Van Damme , Mat Mathews , George Shearing and Alice Hall .

Discographic notes

  • Leon the Lion / Package For Peggy (released in the 1950s)
  • The Master (1954)
  • This Is The Jazz Accordion (1956)
  • Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport (1957)
  • Hi-Fi Holiday for Accordion: The Twin Accordions of Leon Sash (1962)
  • The Leon Sash Quintet Plays Big Band Jazz (with Jerry Cigler) (1962)
  • I Remember Newport (1997)
  • Leon Sash - The Master (released in the 1950s, remastered in 1983)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Down Beat , 1980, Volume 47, p. 12
  2. ^ Billboard August 18, 1962, p. 20
  3. ↑ http://jazztimes.com/articles/8400-i-remember-newport-leon-sash-trio
  4. ↑ Portrait of Marc Myers (2014) ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzwax.com
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 24, 2014)
  6. ^ Bill Kirchner : The Oxford Companion to Jazz , 2005, p. 665
personal data
SURNAME Sash, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz accordionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1922
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1979