René Hall

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René Hall (born September 26, 1903 in Morgan City (Louisiana) , † February 11, 1988 in Los Angeles ) was an American rhythm and blues and jazz guitarist , songwriter and arranger .

Life

Hall lived with his family in New Orleans from the age of twelve . He played in Sam Morgan's orchestra from 1927 to 1929 , then switched to the David Jones-Lee Collins Astoria Hot Six (1929–31) and then played with Joe Robichaux until 1932 . He was then a member of Sidney Desvigne 's Sidney's Southern Syncopators , who played on river steamers. From 1935 he worked in the Ernie Fields Orchestra , in which he remained until 1942 and began to play the trombone. From 1942 he gave concerts with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra at the Plantation Club in St. Louis. From 1944 to 1946 he played with Earl Hines , then for three years with Andy Kirk , before working with his own formation. In 1950 he presented recordings in a sextet under his own name on Jubilee Records ; his teammates were u. a. Reunald Jones , Buddy Tate , Bobby Donaldson and the brothers Edwin and Bill Swanston. In the same year he accompanied the singer Madeline Greene with his band ; In 1951 trio recordings were made for Decca and Regent Records . Until 1952 he also took part in recordings by Clyde Bernhardt , Ernie Fields, Erskine Hawkins and the vocal ensemble The Ravens .

With titles like Flippin ', Smitty's Toy Piano, Twitchy (with Willie Joe Duncan , Specialty 1958) Night Fright or Two Guitar Boogie , he shifted to rhythm & blues and early rock'n'roll from the mid-1950s . During this period he worked a. a. with Earl Bostic and Quincy Jones ; In 1963 he led a session with Sam Cooke ( Rhythm and the Blues ). From the early 1960s he also worked as a songwriter; for "Good Rocking" Sam Taylor Jr. wrote Everybody Knows I Love You (1962), for example, Bumble & The Stingers to School Day Blues and Sandy Nelson Big Noise from the Jungle . He also worked as an arranger for Brook Benton ( Wake Up on RCA Victor ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Delaunay : Hot discographie encyclopédique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.
  2. ↑ René Hall at Discogs (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hall, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Rene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Morgan City, Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1988
Place of death los Angeles