Oscar Lee Bradley
Oscar Lee Bradley Sr (? * 1910, †) was an American jazz - and blues - drummer .
Live and act
Bradley, who worked in the Los Angeles music scene, was a member of Club Alabam's house band in the mid-1930s and played in 1937 with Art Tatum and His Swingsters (“ Body and Soul, ” Decca) and with Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang , in the following years also with Maxine Sullivan .
In the early 1940s he played with Les Hite and Benny Carter . In 1947 T-Bone Walker brought him into his band; he then took part in his sessions for Black & White Records, to be heard in "Call it Stormy Monday" and "Drifting Blues". In the post-war years he worked a. a. with Phil Moore , Slim Gaillard , Ernestine Anderson / Shifty Henry , Wilbert Baranco , Helen Humes , Willard McDaniel , Stuff Smith , Claude McLin and Roy Milton . Discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 39 recording sessions between 1937 and 1961.
Web links
- Oscar Lee Bradley at Allmusic (English)
- Oscar Lee Bradley at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Clora Bryant , William Green, Steven Isoardi: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles , 1999, p. 80
- ↑ Helen Oakley Dance : Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story . 1999, p. 233
- ^ The Allman Brothers Band : A Complete Guide , edited by Brave Umari, p. 135
- Jump up ↑ The Compleat Sinatra: Disgography [sic] Filmography, Television Appearances, Motion Picture Appearances, Radio Appearances, Concert Appearances, Stage Appearances , ed. by Albert I. Lonstein, Vito R. Marino, Cameron Publications, 1970
- ^ Robert L. Campbell, Armin Büttner, and Robert Pruter: The Claude McLin Discography
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 18, 2016)
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SURNAME | Bradley, Oscar Lee |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and blues musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1910 |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |