Russ Savakus

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Russell "Russ" Savakus (born May 13, 1925 in Reading (Pennsylvania) , † 1984 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( double bass , electric bass ).

Live and act

Savakus moved to New York with his wife Arlene in the early 1950s and initially played with Les Elgart ; In 1957 he recorded with Chet Baker ( Embraceable You , Pacific Jazz ). In the 1960s he mainly worked as a session musician and took part in recordings of rock, folk and jazz musicians such as Joan Baez ( Farewell, Angelina ), Kai Winding ( The In Instrumentals ), and Bob Dylan (" Like a Rolling Stone ") the LP Highway 61 Revisited ), Ian and Sylvia ( Early Morning Rain , 1965), Buffy Sainte-Marie ( Many a Mile , 1965), Doc Watson ( Southbound , 1966), Van Morrison ( Brown Eyed Girl , 1967), Louis Armstrong (1967), John Denver ( Rhymes & Reasons , 1969) and Don McLean ( Don McLean (1972) and Playin 'Favorites , 1973) In the 1970s he played with Teo Macero , Eumir Deodato ( Whirlwinds , 1974) and Joe Derise ( I'll Remember Suzanne , 1979). In the field of jazz he was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1953 and 1979.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Crow : Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around . Oxford University Press 2005
  2. ↑ Lawrence McClellan: The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955 . GWestport (Conn.), London: Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 50
  3. ↑ Savakus is said to have played an electric bass for the first time at the Dylan Sssion (in which the bassists Harvey Brooks and Joe Macho Jr. were also used as bassists); see. Mark Polizzotti : Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited . New York, London: Continuum 2010, p. 77
  4. ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector's Directory of Rock Albums and Musicians, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York, 1987, p. 284
  5. ↑ Hounsome, Terry, rock Record: A Collector's Directory of Rock Album and Musicians, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York, 1987, pp 495-496
  6. Jump up ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector's Directory of Rock Albums and Musicians, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York, 1987, p. 157
  7. ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector's Directory of Rock Albums and Musicians, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York, 1987, p. 381
  8. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 19, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Savakus, Russ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savakus, Russell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading (Pennsylvania)
DATE OF DEATH 1984