Paul Munnery

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Paul Munnery (* around 1940; † December 2019 ) was a British jazz musician ( trombone , also slide guitar , arrangement , vocals ).

Live and act

Munnery was active in the northern English music scene of traditional and mainstream jazz ; The first recordings were made in 1964 with the orchestra of the cornetist Dud Clews (“Milenberg Joys”), to which he was to belong until the late 1970s. From the 1980s he played a. a. with John Osborne, Chris Williams' Jazzers, John Shillito and The Rhythm Aces and from 1990 in the Lake Records All-Star Jazzband and with Steve Mellor's Chicago Hoods, for which he also arranged. With Dan Pawson's New Orleans Jazz Band he made guest appearances at the Festa New Orleans Music in Ascona in 1987 . At the Jazz Festival in Bude from 1990-92 he performed with his own formation, Paul Munnery's Harlem Hot Five . Munnery was also director of the eleven-member Harlem ensemble for 30 years . a. played early Ellington numbers like "Foggy Bottom Stomp," emulating the style of JC Higginbotham , Tricky Sam Nanton , Benny Morton and Dickie Wells .

In 1997 he recorded his self-titled debut album Paul Munnery & His Band for Lake Records , starring Norman Field (saxophone, clarinet), Roger Heeley (piano), Paul Degville (guitar), Roscoe Birchmore (bass) and Nick Ward (drums) . Thereupon he interpreted (partly also as a vocalist) jazz standards like “ Basin Street Blues ”, “ Honeysuckle Rose ”, “Sent for You Yesterday” and “Too Marvelous for Words”.

In later years Munnery performed regularly at the Whitley Bay Jazz Festivals / Jazz Parties in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside , and toured the UK and continental Europe with Thomas "Spats" Langhams' The Rhythm Boys and accompanied the guest at the Whitley Bay Festival Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant . Starting in 2000, recordings were made with Jeff Barnhart's British Band, Bix Centennial Band, Mike Cox's Bayou Crawlers and Spats and his Rhythm Boys. In the field of jazz he was involved in 56 recording sessions between 1964 and 2010, according to Tom Lord . a. also with the singer Marilyn Middleton Pollock.

Discographic notes

  • Paul Munnery's Swing Street with John Shillito & Robert Fowler: Stumbling Into Paradise (PEK; 2006), with Nick Gill, Rachel Hayward, Tony Sharp, Dion Cochrane
  • Paul Munnery's Swing Street with Mellow Avstreih: Carefree Together (PEK, 2007), with Hugh Roberts, Rod Kelly, Phil Blandford, Rachel Hayward, Tony Sharp, Al Sharpe

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Munnery obituary. Bebop Spoken Here, December 30, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ Coda, editions 200–210. J. Norris, 1985
  3. ↑ Coda Magazine, spending 200-205. J. Norris, 1985
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 31, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Munnery, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1940
DATE OF DEATH December 2019