Lester Boone

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Lester Boone (born December 8, 1904 in Tuskegee (Alabama) , † July 4, 1989 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , baritone saxophone , clarinet )

Boone studied at the Illinois College of Music and began his career in Chicago in the bands of Alex Calamese, Charlie Elgar (1927), Clarence Black and Carroll Dickerson . In the late 1920s he played in Albert Wynn 's Creole Jazz Band and took part in its recordings for Vocalion Records ("Down by the Levee"). In the following years he worked a. a. with Harry Dial , Earl Hines (1928/29) and Louis Armstrong (1931/32, "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", solo on I got rhythm with introduction by Armstrong 1931, Okeh 41534) also with Jerome Carrington , Kaiser Marshall ( New York, 1935 and before), Eubie Blake Orchestry, Willie Bryant , the Mills Blue Rhythm Band (New York 1933) and Jelly Roll Morton (1936), Cliff Jackson (1937) in New York with Hot Lips Page and Eddie South (end 1930s Chicago, New York). In 1940 he performed with his own band. In 1941 he accompanied Billie Holiday ("Am I Blue?" Decca 1941). He played with Leon Abbey and then with his own bands in the New York area.

After Tom Lord , he was involved in 24 recording sessions between 1928 and 1941. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he worked in New York with his own bands (including Everett Barksdale ) in clubs such as Harvey's and the Lucky Bar .

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  1. ↑ According to Alabama Music Office, see web links, according to Grove Dictionary of Jazz August 12, 1904, these refer to Chilton, Who's who of Jazz 1985
  2. ^ Date of death, New Grove Dictionary Jazz, Macmillan 1996, pp. XXX
  3. ↑ http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/61466/Boone_Lester_instrumentalist_clarinet and New Grove Dictionary Jazz
  4. ↑ Other musicians in this session were Roy Eldridge (tp), Jimmy Powell (as), Ernie Powell (ts), Eddie Heywood (p), Paul Chapman g, Grachan Moncur II (kb), Herbert Cowens (dr).
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 9, 2014)
  6. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
personal data
SURNAME Boone, Lester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (alto saxophone, clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuskegee, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1989
Place of death New York City