Sammy Stewart (musician)

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Sammy Stewart (* 1890 or 1894 in Circleville (Ohio) ; † August 5, 1960 in New York City ) was an American musician ( piano ) and conductor of an orchestra from which numerous later well-known jazz musicians such as Chu Berry and Earl Hines emerged .

Live and act

Sammy Stewart grew up on Mount Vernon Avenue in Columbus, attended Garfield School and Columbus East High School. He began his career in the band of violinist Charlie Parker, the Popular Players , who performed in hotels in the region, and others. a. in Toledo, Ohio. In 1921 he founded the Sammy Stewart and His Singing Syncopators orchestra , which got an engagement at Club Secore before playing at the exclusive Ritz Club in Detroit. His society orchestra also gained notoriety in Chicago and New York; Stewart performed with his bands mostly in hotels, ballrooms, stage shows, clubs and movie theaters. The orchestra was less for hot jazzbecause popular for his sweet or semi-classical style, with which Paul Whiteman was also successful.

Stewart played under his own name in 1924 for Paramount ( Sammy Stewart's Ten Knights of Syncopation ) several titles ("Manda", "My Man Rocks Me"); further recordings were made in 1928 for Vocalion Records . He was involved in six recording sessions from 1924 to 1928. In his orchestra played u. a. Horace Henderson (1928), Chu Berry (1929), Jabbo Smith , Earl Hines, Sid Catlett (1930) and Ikey Robinson . In 1933 he broke up the orchestra after a last engagement at the Quoge Inn in Quoge, Long Island. Stewart worked in the following years as a soloist in clubs in the New York area before retiring as an active musician in 1950 and working as a piano teacher.

literature

  • Peter Darke and Ralph Gulliver: Sammy Stewart's Orchestra . In: Storyville 1976, issues 67-72, p. 178

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information based on the biography at Red Hot Jazz; Different year of birth (1890) in Candice Watkins, Arnett Howard: Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State . 2012
  2. ↑ Early in the cast, Harley Washington, Frank Fowler, Earl Wood, Dave Smallwood, Andrew Henick, Sammy Stewart, Grant Williams, and Claudius Forney.
  3. ↑ With Fats Robins, Eugene Hutt (tp), Mance Worley (tb), Bill Stewart (cl, as, ts), Harley Washington, Roy Butler (cl, as, ts), Millard Robins (bassax), Sammy Stewart (p , dir), Paul Jordan (from left), Lawrence Dixon (bj) and Dave Smallwood (dr).
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 22, 2015)
  5. ↑ From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935 by Thomas J. Hennessey. 1994.
  6. ^ Scotty Barnhart: The World of Jazz Trumpet: A Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy 2005, p. 192.
  7. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_hines_earl.htm
  8. ↑ Burt Korall: Drummin 'Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz The Swing Years . 2002
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Sammy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1890 or 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Circleville, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1960
Place of death New York City