Loumell Morgan

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Loumell Morgan (born October 27, 1922 in Raleigh , North Carolina ; † December 1983 ) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( piano and vocals ) who lived in New York City in the mid-1940s with a Fats Waller reminiscent of piano playing and a style of singing based on Leo Watson gained some popularity.

Live and act

Morgan probably had his first professional appearances in his hometown with the band of CS Belton at the age of 15, before playing the Capital City Aces and in the late 1930s with Baron Lee and Tiny Bradshaw , finally with Slim Gaillard and His from 1939 to 1941 Flat Foot Floogie Boys, on whose recordings for Meritt and Vocalion he participated.

He then founded his own piano trio, with whom he a number of titles for under his own name between 1943 and 1945 V-Disc grossed as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (V-Disc 478) for Eugene Chadbourne one “Early example of deconstruction in music”, “Slender, Tender and Tall” / “Hit That Jive, Jack” (V-Disc54b) as well as “ Blues in the Night ” and “ Them There Eyes ” (V-Disc 118b). In his trio, Roosevelt played James "Ham" Jackson (guitar, vocals) and Jimmy Smith (bass, vocals). During this time he appeared with his program of standards , R&B novelties and Americana in the music films Melody Parade (1943, directed by Arthur Dreifuss ) and All by Myself (1943, directed by Felix E. Feist ). His trio's music was used in the animated film Boogie Woogie Man Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out (1943, directed by Shamus Culhane ). He also had engagements at the Downbeat jazz club and New York's Apollo Theater , in 1949 in Atlantic City .

1945 recorded Loumell for the small record label Super Disc ("Good Enough to Keep" / "Garbage Man Blues"); In 1946 recordings were made for Apollo (" At the Darktown Strutters' Ball "), in which Lynwood "Duke" Jones replaced Jimmy Smith. In 1950 he played the two tracks "Charmaine" and "Calypso Boogie" for Columbia; 1950/51 recordings were made for the local label Sunbeam in Chicago and for Atlantic Records in New York (" For All We Know "). In 1954 Morgan became a member of The Three Flames , with whom he performed until 1964. In 1976 he had an engagement as a soloist in New York's Christy's Skylite Gardens on 11th Street; From 1979-83 he was still performing in the New York jazz club Gregory’s on 63nd Street.

Loumell Morgan wrote the title "The Sheik of Bleeker Street". In the field of jazz he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1939 and 1951. Three songs recorded by Morgan ("Blues in the Night", "Darktown Strutters 'Ball" "Now Tie Jam") were re-released on Delmark Records' East Coast Jive compilation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography ( memento of the original from January 22, 2017 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 / teamrock.com
  2. ^ In the original: An ebullient Fats Waller-styled stand-up pianist from the mid-1940s with a zany Leo "Scat" Watson vocal streak . Quoted from Bill Milkowski : Swing It !: An Annotated History of Jive . 2001, p. 75.
  3. ↑ Loumell Morgan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ The film Boogie Woogie Man Will Get You was made in the Swing Symphony series by Walter Lantz Productions
  5. ↑ Ken Vail: Bird's Diary: The Life of Charlie Parker , 1945-1955 . 1996, p. 8
  6. ^ Billboard, July 16, 1949
  7. ^ Billboard September 15, 1945
  8. ↑ a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 21, 2017)
  9. ^ New York Magazine, May 10, 1976
  10. ^ New York Magazine September 10, 1979, New York Magazine February 25, 1980 and New York Magazine May 2, 1983, p. 118
  11. ^ The Sheik of Bleeker Street in the Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series . 1957, p. 651
  12. ↑ JazzTimes October 1994
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Loumell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Raleigh, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH December 1983