Leroy Pickett
Leroy Pickett (* around 1900, † after 1926) was an American blues and jazz musician ( violin ) and band leader .
Live and act
Pickett worked with Cow Cow Davenport ("Stealin 'Blues", 1934), Ma Rainey ("Grievin' Hearted Blues", 1927), Bernie Young ("Every Saturday Night") and Ivy Smith ("My Own Man Blues ”, Paramount 1927). With the band of Jimmy Blythe he accompanied the singer Viola Bartlette ("Quit Knocking on My Door"). With the pianist Tiny Parham he directed the Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopators in Chicago (with Charlie Lawson , among others ), with whom he recorded titles such as "Alexander, Where's That Band?" Or "Mojo Strut" for Paramount in 1926 . In the field of jazz he was involved in six recording sessions between 1926 and 1927.
Discographic notes
- New York to Chicago 1923–1928 (Biograph Records)
Web links
- Leroy Pickett at Discogs (English)
- Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopators at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Edward Komara: Encyclopedia of the Blues . 2005, p. 317
- ^ The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art edited by Graham Lock, David. 2008, p. 66
- ↑ Leroy Pickett at Allmusic (English)
- ^ Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks: Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography . 2009, p. 144
- ↑ Viola Bartlette With Blythe's Sinful Five, cf. Various - Paramount Hot Jazz Rarities 1926–1928 at Discogs
- ↑ Discographic information at Jazz Index
- ^ William Howland Kenney: Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930 . 1993.
- ↑ With BT Wingfield (cornet), Charlie Lawson (trombone), Junie Cobb (cl / as), Leroy Pickett, possibly Jimmy Bertrand (dr).
- ↑ Discographical notes on Red Hot Jazz
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pickett, Leroy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American blues and jazz musician (violin) and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1900 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1926 |