Rex Stewart
Rex William Stewart, Jr. (born February 22, 1907 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA , † September 7, 1967 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American jazz cornet player .
Live and act
Stewart first played the piano and violin . He worked in the cabarets of Harlem before in 1924 Elmer Snowden worked. From 1926 he played as the successor to Louis Armstrong in the orchestra of Fletcher Henderson , where he remained as a star soloist of the band until 1932; he also recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers . In 1933 Stewart formed his own band; from 1934 to 1944 he was a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra , released records under his own name ( The Duke's Men ), and also played in 1938 in the studio band of the “jazz baron” Timme Rosenkrantzand in Paris in 1939 with Django Reinhardt . From the mid-1940s he had his own bands again; At the end of the 1940s he was several times in Europe (e.g. appearances in Paris, Basel, Berlin) and even in Australia (Melbourne) and recorded again with Reinhardt ( Blue Star Session ). From 1951 he retired, ran his own farm and was a disc jockey and program maker for the radio. Since 1957 he played again in reunion orchestras of former musicians of the Fletcher Henderson Band before he worked with Eddie Condon . In the 1960s he also wrote jazz reviews for Down Beat and Playboy magazines , performed with Benny Carter at the Monterey Jazz Festival , but also with Gil Fuller . In 1965 and 1966 he toured Switzerland and England. He also wrote an autobiography, Boy meets Horn , which was published posthumously.
Stewart summarized the influences of the great jazz trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Bubber Miley in his style using his technical ability (he is considered the inventor of the "half valve" technology) .
Discographic notes
- Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live
- An Introduction to Rex Stewart: His Best Recordings, 1926-1941 (Best of Jazz) with Benny Morton , Don Redman , Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Billy Taylor , Cuba Austin , Kaiser Marshall
- Rex Stewart 1934-46 (Classics) with Lawrence Brown , Tab Smith , Harry Carney , Ram Ramirez , Dave Tough
- Rex Stewart and the ellingtonians (OJC, 1940-46) with Barney Bigard , Billy Kyle , Wellman Braud , John Levy , Cozy Cole
- Rex Stewart 1946-47 (Classics) with Lawrence Brown, Al Sears , Harry Carney, Eddie Heywood , Joya Sherrill
- Rex Stewart 1947-1948 (Classics) with Sandy Williams , Hubert Rostaing , Django Reinhardt , Lucien Simoën
- Trumpet Jive! (Prestige, 1945-60) with Tyree Glenn , Earl Bostic , Junior Raglin , JC Heard
- Rex Stewart / John Dengler All Stars: The Irrepressible Rex Stewart (Jazzology, 1951)
- Chatter Jazz (RCA, 1959) with Dickie Wells , John Bunch , Leonard Gaskin
- Rex Stewart meets Henri Chaix & Montreux 1971 (Sackville, 19166/71) 1966 in Baden (Switzerland)
Fonts
- Rex Stewart: Jazz Masters of the 30s . Da Capo 1972 (History of Jazz in the 1930s)
- Rex Stewart: Boy Meets Horn (Ed. By Clare P. Gordon). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1991
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
Web links
- Rex Stewart at Allmusic (English)
- Works by and about Rex Stewart in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stewart, Rex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stewart, Rex William junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz cornet player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th September 1967 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |