Oscar Lee Bradley

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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 .

T-Bone Walker - Call it Stormy Monday

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clora Bryant , William Green, Steven Isoardi: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles , 1999, p. 80
  2. ↑ Helen Oakley Dance : Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story . 1999, p. 233
  3. ^ The Allman Brothers Band : A Complete Guide , edited by Brave Umari, p. 135
  4. 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
  5. ^ Robert L. Campbell, Armin Büttner, and Robert Pruter: The Claude McLin Discography
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 18, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Bradley, Oscar Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century