Rector Bailey
Rector Bailey (around 1912 or 1913 in New York City ; † April 4, 1970 there ) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician (guitar) and music teacher.
Bailey, who also played the double bass , piano and vibraphone in addition to the guitar , came from an Afro-American family in Brooklyn. He attended Brooklyn College and worked in various musical fields. He briefly worked as a conductor for the New York City Opera Company , he also played with jazz musicians such as George Wallington and performed his own compositions on the flamenco guitar at a concert in New York's Town Hall in 1944. In New York clubs he accompanied various singers; He also worked as an arranger and music teacher for guitar, organ, string instruments and percussion. His students included Mickey Baker and Jason Miles . In 1952 he recorded with Big Joe Turner ("Sweet Sixteen"), also during this time (in the band of Jesse Stone ) with Odelle Turner ("Draggin 'Hours") and with Ruth Brown . Bailey, who had an apartment and studio on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, died in 1970 at the age of 57 in Brooklyn's Flatbush General Hospital of complications from cancer.
Web links
- Rector Bailey at Allmusic (English)
- Rector Bailey at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary in the New York Times
- ↑ Information on Mickey Baker in The Jazz Guitarist
- ^ Alec Halberstadt: Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus . 2009
- ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, p. 274
- ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll , 2013, p. 274
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| SURNAME | Bailey, Rector |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American R&B and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1912–1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1970 |
| Place of death | Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States |