Money Johnson

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Harold "Money" Johnson (born February 23, 1918 in Tyler , Texas , † March 28, 1978 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter whose repertoire also included flugelhorn and vocals .

Live and act

Johnson began playing the trumpet when he was 15; He began his career in Eddie and Sugar Lou's Tyler Hotel Orchestra in the early 1930s , before moving to Oklahoma City in 1936 to play in Nat Towles' Territory Band the following year . From 1940 he worked at Horace Henderson , with whom the first recordings were made in New York, from 1944 again at Towles, then at Cootie Williams , Lucky Millinder , Bull Moose Jackson , Paul Bascomb and Don Redman and Count Basie . He played with Charlie Christian and Henry Bridges at jam sessions in Oklahoma City . In the 1950s, Johnson worked with various musicians and band leaders, such as Reuben Phillips , Herbie Fields , Louis Jordan , Esther Phillips , Mercer Ellington , Cozy Cole , Buddy Johnson , Lucky Thompson and Sy Oliver . In 1953 he toured with Panama Francis in Uruguay; 1966 and 1968 on behalf of the State Department with Earl Hines in the USSR and in Europe. He worked sporadically with Duke Ellington in New York late in the decade , and recorded with Jack McDuff ( A Change Is Gonna Come , 1966) and Houston Person ( Houston Express , 1970). He was a regular member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the early 1970s, appearing on albums such as Up in Duke's Workshop (1969). He was still recording with Buck Clayton and Cliff Smalls in the 1970s and early 80s . In the field of jazz, he was involved in around 110 recording sessions between 1940 and 1982.

literature

  • Lawrence McClellan: The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955 Greenwood, 2004, ISBN 9780313301575
  • John Chilton : Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street London: Bloomsbury Book Shop, 1970 and New York & Philadelphia: Chilton, 1972; 4th edition New York: Da Capo Press, 1985
  • Dave Oliphant, Texan Jazz Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996
Lexical entries
  • Barry Kernfeld (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . London: Macmillan, 1988; 2d ed., New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2002
  • Daniel Rendon, "Johnson, Harold [Money]" The Handbook of Texas Online Published by the Texas State Historical Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography in The Handbook of Texas
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 14, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Money
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Harold (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyler , Texas
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1978
Place of death New York City