Skip Hall
Archie "Skip" Hall (born September 27, 1909 in Portsmouth (Virginia) , † November 1980 in Ottawa , Canada) was an American musician ( piano , organ ) of swing jazz .
Hall received instrumental lessons from his father from the age of eight, and later at the Martin Smith School in New York City . He first performed in Harlem and directed a band in Cleveland from 1931 to 1938 . He then worked as a freelancer, in the 1940s also as an arranger , a. a. for Jay McShann (1940-1944). During his military service in World War II, he directed the 132nd Band with which he was stationed in Great Britain. As a pianist he then worked for many years with Buddy Tate , with whom he was in Europe in 1968. Hall also led his own groups (including with Walter Brown ), with which he recorded in 1949; in Two Left Feet / Skip a Page , which he recorded for Jamboree, he played with Tate, Buck Clayton , George Stevenson, Vincent Bair-Bey, Dave McRae, Walter Page and Herbert Lovelle . He can also be heard on recordings by his brother-in-law Sy Oliver , but also with Clyde Bernhardt , Thelma Carpenter , Don Redman , Dicky Wells , Buck Clayton, Hot Lips Page , Wynonie Harris , Hot Lips Page or Charlie Shavers .
Lexigraphic entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
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| SURNAME | Hall, Skip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, Archie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swing jazz musician (piano, organ) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portsmouth, Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1980 |
| Place of death | Ottawa , Canada |