Morris Lane

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Morris Lane (* around 1920; † May 30, 1967 in Gary ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Lane worked in the bebop scene from the mid-1940s . a. with Fats Navarro / Gil Fuller 's Modernists, with whom he recorded in 1946. During this time he also played with the Be Bop Boys and in the orchestras of Mercer Ellington , Lionel Hampton , Curley Hamner and Earl Hines and His Orchestra . In 1947 he recorded several titles for the local Lenox label for the first time under his own name ( Morris Lane and His Orchestra ); In 1948 a session for Savoy Records (" You Go to My Head ") followed. In 1951/52 he recorded other jazz and R&B numbers for Robin ("Bobby's Boogie"), Apollo, Brunswick (with Bill Doggett , Leroy Kirkland , Aaron Bell , Rudy Traylor ), Coral (" It Ain't Necessarily So " / " Stairway to the Stars ") and for Scooter, the latter with Billy Taylor , Curly Russell and Art Blakey (" Poinciana "). In the early 1950s he was still working with Roy Eldridge , Charlie Singleton and Mary Lou Williams ("Down Beat"). In the field of jazz he was involved in 42 recording sessions between 1946 and 1954, most recently with Earl Hines and His Esquire All Stars ( Gene Redd , Dicky Wells , Carl Pruitt and Eddie Burns ), with whom he appeared at Club Hangover , San Francisco.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 22, 2018)
  2. ↑ Compilation with two titles by Morris Lane, Big Trees and After Hours Bounce .
personal data
SURNAME Lane, Morris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1967
Place of death Gary