Lloyd Phillips (musician)

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Sidney Bechet , Freddie Moore and Lloyd Phillips (right) performing at Jimmy Ryan’s Jazz Club , New York City, circa June 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

Lloyd Phillips (* 1905 in Richmond (Virginia) , † 1970 ) was an American jazz pianist .

Live and act

Lloyd Phillips learned to play the piano in high school and toured New England with various revues before moving to New York City in 1927 to work in Dave Alford's orchestra. In the 1930s he played in the combo of trumpeter June Clark , then u. a. at Chick Webb and Dave Nelson . In the middle of the decade he toured with the revue The Blackbirds ; after his return to New York he was mainly active as an accompanist for singers, in the 1950s with Pearl Bailey .

Phillips also played in New York in early 1947 with Sidney Bechet , with whom he recorded ("Buddy Bolden Stomp"), with bassist Pops Foster and either Freddie Moore or Arthur Herbert on drums. He performed with Bechet's quartet at Jimmy Ryan's, and from the fall of 1947 at the Chicago jazz club Jazz Ltd. on. In the field of jazz he was involved in 73 recording sessions between 1960 and 1972. Art Hodes ' magazine The Jazz Record described him in 1947 as a "competent, but not very noticeable pianist".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Lee: People in Jazz: Jazz Keyboard Improvisors of the 19th & 20th Centuries: Preragtime, Blues, Folk and Minstrel, Early Ragtime, Dixieland, Ragtime-stride, Blues-boogie, Swing, Prebop, Bop. Colombia Lady Music, 1984
  2. ↑ Danny Barker , Trent Harris and Slick Jones also played in Dave Nelson's band . See Danny Barker, Alyn Shipton: A Life in Jazz . London: MacMillan Press, 2016, p. 142.
  3. ↑ Lloyd Phillips at Discogs (English)
  4. ↑ Bill Reinhardt and Jazz, Ltd ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 / delmark.com
  5. ↑ Interview with Bob Wilber
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 1, 2017)
  7. ^ The Jazz Record, Volumes 52-60, Art Hodes and Dale Curran., 1947, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 1970