Pat Moran

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Pat Moran (* 1934 in Enid, Oklahoma as Helen Mudgett , married as Patti Moran McCoy ) is an American jazz pianist .

Live and act

Moran McCoy studied piano at Phillips University in her hometown and later at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music . She began her career as a concert pianist, but eventually switched to jazz and founded a quartet as Pat Moran, with which she a. a. gave concerts at New York's Hickory House , Birdland and the Blue Note in Chicago before she reduced it to a trio. In a duo and later in a quartet she performed with singer Beverly Kelly ; she accompanied Kelly in a trio with John Doling (bass) and John Whited (drums), but also as a vocal trio. In the mid-1950s she had the opportunity to record two albums for Bethlehem Records .

In April 1957 she performed at Birdland with her quartet, accompanied by a brass section arranged by Nat Pierce . At the end of 1957, two albums were made for Audio Fidelity : Beverly Kelly Sings with the Pat Moran Trio and the trio album This Is Pat Moran , with Scott LaFaro (bass) and Gene Gammage (drums). She also recorded with Mel Tormé , Oscar Pettiford and the Terry Gibbs Dream Band (1959/61).

In the early 1960s, she stopped touring and played an album of nursery rhymes , Shakin 'Loose with Mother Goose , on which Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows played; it was awarded the National Book Award . In the following years she performed occasionally and was also featured on National Public Radio by Marian McPartland on her program Piano Jazz .

Discographic notes

  • The Pat Moran Quartet (Bethlehem, 1957)
  • The Pat Moran Quartet While at Birdland (Bethlehem, 1957)
  • Beverly Kelly Sings with the Pat Moran Trio (Audio Fidelity, 1957 / SSJ (Japan), ed. 2009)
  • Patti Moran McCoy The Gospel Truth (1997)
  • Patti Moran McCoy Jesus in Paris (2001)
  • Pat Moran: Complete Trio Sessions ( Fresh Sound Records , ed. 2007)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Beverly Kelly - the Early Years
  2. ↑ Originally the album was titled Kelly Pat Moran Quartat , cf. Bethlehem Records discography 1956 Jazzdisco.org
  3. ↑ Burt Collins , Earl Swope , Sam Most , Dick Meldonian , Anthony Ortega and Oscar Pettiford played with Moran's Quartet . See Bethlehem Records / discography-1957 at jazzdisco.org
  4. ↑ The following year it was published again under the title The Legendary Scott LaFaro . See Scott LaFaro discography at jazzdisco.org
personal data
SURNAME Moran, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moran McCoy, Patti; Mudgett, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Enid, Oklahoma