Morey field

Morey Feld, circa August 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Morey field (born August 15, 1915 in Cleveland (Ohio), † March 28, 1971 in Bow Mar , Colorado ) was an American drummer of Dixieland jazz and swing .

Live and act

Field took off in 1933 drumming autodidact in 1936 and was a member of the band of Ben Pollack . He then worked with Joe Haymes , with Bud Freeman and the band Summa Cum Laudae (1940), Benny Goodman (1943 through 1945), where he also in the musical film Sweet and Low-Down participated from 1944 to 1946 at Eddie Condon to play. He has also performed with Billy Butterfield , Peanuts Hucko and Bobby Hackett . Between 1955 and 1960 he worked in management for the American Broadcasting Company . In the 1960s he returned to the scene, played again with Condon, led his own bands and opened a drum school. In 1968 he moved to California before playing with Hucko again in Denver ; he also became the founding drummer of the World's Greatest Jazz Band that same year . Feld, who also recorded with Buddy Clark (1939), Sarah Vaughn (1944), Slam Stewart (1945), Teddy Wilson (1945), Ella Fitzgerald , Red Norvo, and Wild Bill Davison , died in an apartment fire.

Discographic notes

• Jazz Goes Broadway (Kapp Records)

Lexigraphic entries

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .