Pops Foster
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George Murphy Foster called Pops Foster (* 18th May 1892 in McCall in Ascension Parish , Louisiana ; † 30th October 1969 in San Francisco ), was an American jazz - bassist of the New Orleans Jazz . He also played tuba and trumpet . Foster is considered to be the first major jazz bassist.
Live and act
He was born on a plantation in southern Louisiana (in the Ascension parish) near Baton Rouge . When he was ten, he moved to New Orleans with his family . While his older brother started playing the banjo and guitar, he started with the cello and then switched to bass. From 1907 he began playing professionally in bands such as those of Armand Piron , Kid Ory and King Oliver in New Orleans. 1918–1921 he played on the river steamer orchestras of Fate Marable (where he played tuba). He went to Los Angeles with Kid Ory and was in St. Louis with Charlie Creath and Dewey Jackson in the mid-1920s . In 1928 he went to New York City to join King Oliver and in the 1930s he played in the Luis Russell Orchestra and with Louis Armstrong .
In the 1940s he achieved great popularity in the then “ Dixieland ” revival, for example with Mezz Mezzrow , Art Hodes , Bob Wilber and Sidney Bechet (1945). In 1942 he went to the New York subway as a worker. In 1946 he recorded with Dan Burley , in the late 1940s and also in 1952 (with Jimmy Archey ) he toured Europe (especially France). In the early 1950s he played regularly at the Central Plaza Hotel in New York and was in New Orleans with Papa Celestin in 1954 . Between 1956 and 1961 he played with Earl Hines in San Francisco and from 1963 to 1964 with the trio of Elmer Snowden . In 1966 he visited Europe with the New Orleans All Stars . His last residence was in San Francisco , where he also dictated his memories (which appeared posthumously in 1971).
The hallmark of his playing was the slapping bass (the string snapping back against the fingerboard). Foster was married twice (1912 to Bertha Foster, 1936 to Alma).
Discographic notes
- GeorgePops Foster (American Music, 1968) with Art Hodes
literature
- Pops Foster: The Autobiography of Pops Foster. Backbeat Books, Berkeley / CA 2005, ISBN 0-87930-831-1 (with introduction by Bertram Turetzky , essay by Ross Russell, discography), first Pops Foster: The Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman (as told to Tom Stoddard), Berkeley, University of California Press 1971
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Ascension Parish is now part of the Baton Rouge catchment area.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foster, Pops |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foster, George Murphy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ascension Parish , Louisiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1969 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California |