Lou Fromm

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Louis "Lou" Fromm (* 1919 ) was an American jazz - drummer of the late swing era .

Life

Fromm played at the beginning of his career in New York with Teddy Powell , on whose recordings for Bluebird he was involved; In 1942 he worked for a short time with Claude Thornhill , in 1944 he switched from the Powell Orchestra to the Casa Loma Orchestra . During this time he also took part in the recordings of Georgie Auld and played in the swing bands of Frankie Newton and Boyd Raeburn . From 1945 he worked for Artie Shaw , both in his big band and in the sextet Gramercy Five with Roy Eldridge ("The Grabtown Grapple"). He was heard as a soloist in the Shaw tracks "Bedford Drive" and "Little Jazz". In the following years he played a. a. with Barney Kessel 's All Stars and the Harry James Orchestra . In the field of jazz he was involved in 89 recording sessions between 1941 and 1947. According to Al Cohn , Fromm was heavily addicted to drugs; he was jailed several times for drug possession, which affected his musician career. He disappeared from the music scene in the late 1940s.

With guitarist Barney Kessel and pianist Dodo Marmarosa , Fromm and bassist Morris Rayman formed "the best rhythm section " of Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five in 1944 and 1945 ; the latter two were, according to Gunther Schuller, severely underrated musicians.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Burt Korall: Drummin 'Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz The Bebop Years . 2004, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 28, 2016)
  3. ↑ Ira Gitler : Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s . 1985, p. 277
  4. ↑ John White Artie Shaw: His Life and Music Continuum, Bloomsbury 2004, p. 123
  5. ^ Gunther Schuller: The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 . 1991, p. 710.
personal data
SURNAME Pious, Lou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fromm, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1919