Peanuts Holland

Herbert Lee "Peanuts" Holland (born February 9, 1910 in Norfolk , Virginia , † February 7, 1979 in Stockholm ) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer of swing . He played with Coleman Hawkins , Fletcher Henderson and Don Byas .

Live and act

Peanuts Holland played first in the Jenkins Orphanage Band and then from 1929-33 with Alphonse Trent in the southern United States. He had his own orchestra with Earl Bostic and Slam Stewart (1933-38), in between there were brief periods of collaboration with Willie Bryant and Jimmie Lunceford . Holland came to New York in 1939 and played for Coleman Hawkins, then worked for Fletcher Henderson in 1940 and Charlie Barnet 1941-46. He went to Europe with Don Redman's band in 1946 (together with Don Byas) and since then has preferably performed as a soloist with his own band, especially in France and Scandinavia. Peanuts Holland had a major impact on the post-war European jazz scene. In 1963 he played at the Americans-in-Europe concert of the Südwestfunk in Koblenz .

His singing style in its humorous way is similar to that of Dizzy Gillespie or the vout style of Slim Gaillard . This can be heard clearly in his composition Cement Mixer from 1947 with the Don Byas Re-boppers .

Holland made records with Don Byas, Guy Lafitte , Tyree Glenn , Dodo Marmarosa and Mezz Mezzrow .

Selection discography

• Peanut Butter Blues (1946)
• Jazz in Paris - Bebop (Blue Star / Vogue, 1946–47) with Don Byas
• Don Byas: Don Byas 1946/1947 (Classics)
• Guy Lafitte: Blue and Sentimental (Emarcy, 1954)
• Peanuts Holland Sextet: Jazz In Paris: Peanuts Holland - Buck Clayton - Charlie Singleton (Emarcy, 1954) with Guy Lafitte, Géo Daly , Jean-Claude Pelletier
• Mezz Mezzrow: Mezz Mezzrow In Paris (JazzTime, 1955)

literature

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1988.
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .