Ray Skjelbred

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Ray Skjelbred (* approx. 1940 in Chicago ) is an American boogie woogie and jazz pianist and singer .

Ray Skjelbred grew up in Chicago, where he played the accordion. as an adult he moved to Seattle, where he met the jazz and ragtime musician Johnny Wittwer, who gave him lessons and gave him his first appearances. In the early 1960s he formed the Great Excelsior Jazz Band with Mielke Duffy and Bob Jackson and played in Seattle in 1965 with Claire Austin and The Great Excelsior (Jazz) Band , with which the first recordings were made ( Goin 'Crazy ). In the 1960s and 1970s he played with various bands and musicians, such as Carol Leigh, Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Jazz Band, the Golden Age Jazz Band in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Blues Serenaders . From 1969 he lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ; In 1971 he recorded his debut album Berkeley Rhythm in Berkeley with a septet line-up (including with cornet player Jim Goodwin ) . In the 1980s he played with Turk Murphy , Butch Thompson , Jihn Gill, Barbara Lashley, in the 1990s a. a. with Bob Schulz and His Frisco Jazz Band, Bob Helm u. a. In 2006 he performed at the Wild Bill Davison Centennial Concert . After Tom Lord , he was involved in 101 recording sessions between 1965 and 2011. In addition to numerous records under his own name, he also presented three volumes of poetry.

Discographic notes

  • Solo Jazz Piano (1974)
  • Chicago High Life (1982)
  • Gin Mill Blues (Stomp Off, 1984)
  • Stompin 'Em Down (Stomp Off, 1985), with Hal Smith
  • The Hal Smith Trio (Jazzology, 1987), with Bobby Gordon , Hal Smith
  • The Hal Smith Trio Live at The Jazzmine (1987)
  • Chicago Session-1987 (1987)
  • Jim Goodwin / Ray Skjelbred: Taking a Chance (1988)
  • Wild and Wooly (1997)
  • The Last Time I Saw Chicago (2001), with Rebecca Kilgore
  • Frolicking Fido (2007)
  • Greetings from Chicago (Jazzology, 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.westcoastragtime.com/bios/bio_skjelbred_03.htm
  2. ↑ http://home.comcast.net/~portcityjazzband/RS.html
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Skjelbred, Ray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago