Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette (* 17th May 1916 in Denver , † 25. May 1983 in New York City ) was an American jazz -Tenor- saxophonist who especially for his time with Count Basie as much by Lester Young was known influenced Player .
biography
Quinichette first studied alto saxophone and clarinet at Tennessee State College and then switched to tenor saxophone. He played in local rhythm and blues bands, toured with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter and Nat Towles, and played with Shorty Sherock in the late 1930s . In the early 1940s he played with Ernie Fields and toured with Jay McShann's band from 1942 to 1944 . He played with Benny Carter and Sid Catlett , was with Johnny Otis in California from 1945 to 1947, and moved to New York in the late 1940s. He played there with Louis Jordan , Lucky Millinder , Milt Buckner , Eddie Wilcox , Hot Lips Page , JC Heard (1948/9) and Henry Red Allen (1951) and peaked at Count Basie from 1951 to 1953, where he was hired, to play like Lester Young . He did so well that he was nicknamed Vice President or Vice Prez after Lester Young's nickname Prez (Young himself, mockingly, called him Lady Q ). After his time with Basie, he made some recordings with Emarcy (including The Vice Prez with Basie and Kenny Drew ) and had his own groups, played with Benny Goodman (1955) and Nat Pierce (1955), accompanied Billie Holiday , Sarah Vaughan ( Sarah Vaughan , Emarcy 1954) and Dinah Washington ( New Blowtop Blues 1952), recorded with Woody Herman and John Coltrane ( Cattin with Quinichette and Coltrane 1957, and in The Big Sound by Gene Ammons ) and released several other albums on Prestige such as For Basie 1958 (with Nat Pierce on piano). At the end of the 1950s he withdrew completely from jazz, worked in New York as an electrician and did not appear again until 1973 and made a few recordings from 1977 before his health forced him to retire. According to Eddie Lambert (New Grove Dictionary), his style displayed a sense of swing unique to Lester Young's followers.
literature
- Eddie Lambert, Article Paul Quinichette, in Barry Kernfeld (Ed.), New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Macmillan 1996, pp. 1008f
- More like Pres than Pres himself: Meet Mr. Quinichette, Down Beat, xix / 18, 1952, p. 7
- B. Rusch: Paul Quinichette, Jazz Master, Cadence i / 4, 1976, p. 3
- Stanley Dance: The world of Count Basie, 1980
Discography (selection)
- The Vice Prez , Emarcy 1954
- Prez meets Vice Prez , Emarcy 1954 (with Lester Young )
- Borderline , Vanguard 1954 with ( Mel Powell and Bobby Donaldson )
- The Kid From Denver - Dawn 1956 (with Thad Jones , Joe Newman , Henry Coker , Bill Graham (saxophonist) , Nat Pierce , Freddie Green , Eddie Jones , Sonny Payne )
- On the sunny side , Prestige 1957
- Cattin 'with Coltrane and Quinichette , Prestige 1957 (with John Coltrane, Ed Thigpen , Mal Waldron , Julian Euell ), OJC
- For Basie , Prestige 1958 (with Shad Collins , Nat Pierce, Freddie Green, Walter Page , Jo Jones )
Web links
- Biography Scott Yanow, Allmusic
- Biography at Allaboutjazz (biography partly based on jazzimprov)
- Discogs
Individual evidence
- ^ According to the New Grove Dictionary Electrical Engineer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quinichette, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz tenor saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denver |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1983 |
| Place of death | New York City |