Spencer Williams
Spencer Williams (born October 14, 1889 in New Orleans , † July 14, 1965 in Flushing , New York ) was an American musician (piano, vocals) and composer in the field of early jazz and early pop music .
Live and act
Williams, whose mother died early, grew up with his godmother, the brothel owner Lulu White, in the legendary Mahagony Hall (to which he later dedicated his Mahagony Hall Stomp ). He studied music at St. Charles University in his hometown and was soon a respected ragtime pianist
In 1907 Williams gave concerts in Chicago ; around 1916 he moved to New York City . There he wrote the first songs with Anton Lada from the Louisiana Five and other songs with Fats Waller , such as Squeeze Me (1918). In 1921 he wrote the revue Put and Take with James Tim Brymn and Perry Bradford . In 1925 he accompanied Josephine Baker on her first European tour, only to return to America after three years. For the next several years he worked with Lonnie Johnson and Teddy Bunn . In 1936 he went to England, where he worked with Benny Carter ( When Lights Are Low ). He also spent a large part of the 1950s in Sweden, only returning to the USA in 1957.
Williams is the composer of numerous jazz and blues titles - from him, for example, Basin Street Blues , I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o 'This Jelly-Roll , I Ain't Got Nobody , Royal Garden Blues , I've Found a New Baby , Everybody Loves My Baby , Tishomingo Blues or Careless Love , some of which he wrote with (the unrelated) Clarence Williams .
Williams was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 .
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .
Web links
- Spencer Williams at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Riverwalk Jazz ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Songwriters Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, Spencer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans , Louisiana , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | Flushing , New York , USA |