Louis Hooper

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Louis Stanley "Lou" Hooper (born May 18, 1894 in North Buxton , Ontario , † September 17, 1977 in Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island ) was a Canadian blues and jazz pianist .

Live and act

Hooper grew up in a musical family in Ypsilanti (Missouri) . He sang in the church choir as a child and studied at the Detroit Conservatory around 1915; he also worked with dance and theater orchestras. From the early 1920s he lived in the New York borough of Harlem and taught at the Martin Smith School in Harlem. He was also a resident pianist at Ajax Records and accompanied blues singers such as Rosa Henderson , Helen Gross , Hazel Meyers , Mamie Smith , Monette Moore , Viola McCoy , Josie Miles , Alberta Perkins and Julia Moody on recordings in the 1920s , as well as the gospel singer Ford Washington McGhee and Paul Robeson .

In 1924/25 he recorded with the Kansas City Five , a studio band of the Pathé label with Bubber Miley , Jake Frazier , Bob Fuller and Elmer Snowden . Further recordings were made for Pathé with Bob Fuller and Elmer Snowden in studio formations such as Three Jolly Mines, The Charleston Trio and Three Hot Eskimos . In the field of jazz he was involved in over 200 recording sessions between 1923 and 1928. a. also with Ethel Waters (1926), Buddy Christian , Blind Richard Yates and Lizzie Miles (1928).

In the early 1930s he moved to Detroit, toured with Myron Sutton's Canadian Ambassadors; from 1933 he moved to Montreal, where he was musical director of the Royal Canadian Artillery at the end of the decade. In 1973 he presented a solo album. He returned sporadically to the United States and toured Europe as well. Most recently he lived on Prince Edward Island.

literature

  • Jack Litchfield, Lou Hooper . Grove Jazz online.
  • David Lewis, Louis Hooper: the Harlem Years . Montréal: Montréal Vintage Society, 1989. ISBN 1-895002-01-X .

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Notes and individual references

  1. Jump up ↑ Bruce Bastin, The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 . 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 29, 2015)
  3. ^ Paul Oliver: Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records . 1984, p. 180.
  4. ^ Lindsey R. Swindall: Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art 2015, p. 45.
  5. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/lou-hooper-piano/oclc/317793633
personal data
SURNAME Hooper, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hooper, Louis Stanley (full name); Hooper, Lou (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian blues and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH North Buxton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1977
Place of death Charlottetown , Prince Edward Island