Mary Osborne (jazz musician)
Mary Osborne (born July 17, 1921 in Minot , North Dakota , † March 4, 1992 in Bakersfield , California ) was an American jazz musician ( guitar , vocals ).
Live and act
Osborne is the daughter of a dance and ragtime musician. She first played the violin and double bass, then guitar in the school orchestras. After hearing Charlie Christian in Alphonso Trent's orchestra , she switched to the electric guitar . She began in the late 1930s in the band of the KDKA radio station. From 1941 she played with Joe Venuti , then with Buddy Rodgers , Terry Shand and Russ Morgan . In 1945 she moved to New York City . There she founded her own trio, but also played with Mary Lou Williams , Charlie Shavers , Louie Bellson , Tyree Glenn and Mercer Ellington and recorded with Coleman Hawkins , Beryl Booker and Ethel Waters .
In 1951 the Down Beat brought the story that she had retired and was only a housewife. But only a year later she was back on the scene: she went on a European tour with Billie Holiday . Between 1952 and 1963 she was a regular on the Jack Sterling radio show from Columbia . In 1959 her album A Girl and Her Guitar was released . She then worked as a guitar teacher and went to the West Coast as an entrepreneur in 1968, where she headed the Osborne Guitar Company , from which the amplifier company Osborne Sound Laboratories developed. Occasionally she continued to perform, such as 1969 with Venuti, 1978 with Marian McPartland or 1981 at the Kool Festival in New York. In 1977 she presented the album Now's The Time (1977, with saxophonist Vi Redd and McPartland), which was followed by Now and Then in 1982 . In 1991 she played her last concerts at Village Vanguard .
Osborne was married to the trumpeter Ralph Scaffidi and had three children.
literature
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
- Sally Placksin: women in jazz. From the turn of the century to the present. Hannibal, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85445-044-3 , pp. 213-216.
Web links
- Works by Mary Osborne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Discography
- Obituary (New York Times)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Initially strongly influenced by him, she soon developed her own approach and her own style. See short portrait (ClassicJazzGuitar) ( memento of the original from July 17, 2011 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.
- ↑ to whose girl stars she belonged (recordings 1946)
- ↑ with Tommy Flanagan , Tommy Potter and Jo Jones
- ^ Mary Osborne Makes a Return After 10 Years , New York Times , Aug. 30, 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osborne, Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (guitar, vocals) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minot , North Dakota |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1992 |
| Place of death | Bakersfield (California) |