Mousie Alexander

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Mousey (right) and Clark Terry in December 1970

"Mousey" or "Mousie" Alexander (born June 19, 1922 in Gary , Indiana as Elmer Alexander ; † October 9, 1988 in Orlando , Florida ) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist .

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Alexander studied at the Ray Knapp School in Chicago and took private tuition with Sam Ulano in New York . In the late 1940s he began to work with Jimmy McPartland and also worked on his 1949 recorded 78s for Prestige Records ("Daughter Of Sister Kate", "Royal Garden Blues"). In the early 1950s he then moved to the band of his wife Marian McPartland , on whose recordings for Savoy Records (1952) he participated. In the mid-1950s he recorded with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , as well as a small line-up with guitarists Johnny Smith (1955) and Charlie Ventura (1957).

In 1956 he accompanied Benny Goodman on a Far East tour; in the late 1950s he often worked with musicians such as Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon . He is also on recordings of the Buck Clayton / Buddy Tate Quintet ( Buck & Buddy, Kansas City Nights ; 1960), Nat Pierce ( The Ballad of Jazz Street , 1960), percussionist in Gene Krupa's American Bolero (1961), Ralph Sutton ( 1968), the Lee Konitz / Sal Mosca Quartet ( Spirits , 1971), the Zoot Sims / Jimmy Rowles Quartet ( If I'm Lucky , 1977),

In 1980 a stroke ended his musical career. A notable document of his skill is a twenty-five minute recording in the 1962 film series Good Years of Jazz , in which he can be heard with Georgie Auld and Doc Severinsen under the direction of guitarist Mike Bryan .

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  1. ↑ Reclam's Jazzlexikon names June 29th as the birthday
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SURNAME Alexander, Mousie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Mousey (variant); Alexander, Elmer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Gary , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1988
Place of death Orlando , Florida