Shorty McConnell

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Maurice "Shorty" McConnell (* around 1920) was an American jazz trumpeter .

McConnell played from the beginning of 1942 with Earl Hines , in whose last record sessions of his orchestra before the recording ban he was involved, to be heard as a soloist in "Skylark" and "Stormy Monday Blues". During the tour of the Hines band in 1943, the u. a. also belonged to Charlie Parker , recordings of a jam session with Parker, Shorty McConnell and (probably) the band guitarist Hurley Ramey at the time were made in Chicago.

From 1944 McConnell played (on the side of Dizzy Gillespie , Freddie Webster and Al Killian ) with Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra ; to be heard as a soloist in “Second Balcony Jump”, the signature melody of the Eckstine band. In 1946 and in early 1947, recordings were made with Lester Young (“Sunday”, “Easy Does It”). His last recordings were made in October 1947 when he performed with Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan in New York's Town Hall. In the field of jazz he was involved in 14 recording sessions between 1942 and 1947.

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  1. ^ Gary Ginell: Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine . 2013.
  2. ↑ When Fats Navarro joined the Eckstine Band, Marion "Boonie" Hazel played the first trumpet, Maurice "Shorty" McConnell the second. Navarro got the role of third trumpeter and was responsible for the solos; Gail Brockman was the fourth trumpeter. See Leif Bo Petersen, Theo Rehak: The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro: - Infatuation . 2009, p. 69
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 11, 2016)
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SURNAME McConnell, Shorty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McConnell, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920