St. Louis Jimmy Oden

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Burke “St. Louis Jimmy "Oden (* 26. June 1903 in Nashville ( Tennessee ), † thirtieth December 1977 in Chicago ) was an American blues - pianist , singer , songwriter and producer .

James Burke Oden was from Nashville , Tennessee ; Already in his childhood he sang and played the piano autodidactically . In his teenage years he went to St. Louis , Missouri in 1917 , where he began performing with the pianist Roosevelt Sykes . After working in the St. Louis area for over ten years, he moved to Chicago with Sykes in 1933 .

In Chicago he was called "St. Louis Jimmy ”, where he mainly lived for the next four decades. From there, Oden toured the United States with a group of blues musicians. From 1941 he recorded a number of pieces for Bluebird Records ("Goin 'Down Slow"). Oden also wrote a number of songs, of which "Take the Bitter with the Sweet" and "Soon Forgotten" were recorded by his friend Muddy Waters .

In 1948 he recorded "Florida Hurricane" for Aristocrat Records , where he was accompanied by pianist Sunnyland Slim and guitarist Muddy Waters. In 1947, Oden and his business partner Joe Brown founded the small and short-lived label Opera, from which JOB Records emerged in 1949 . His composition “Mother's Day” was created during the first JOB session. After just one year, Oden stopped working for the company, which existed until 1974.

After a serious traffic accident in 1957, he limited himself to working as a songwriter for Muddy Waters, Howlin 'Wolf ("What a Woman!") And John Lee Hooker, among others . In 1960 he recorded an album for the prestige sub-label Bluesville Records ( Goin 'Down Slow ), on which the pianist Robert Banks participated, and worked as a singer on a session for Candid Records with Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Otis Spann . Oden died of pneumonia in 1977 and is buried in Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois near Chicago.

Discographic notes

  • Complete Works, Vol. 1 (Document, 1932/33)
  • Complete Works, Vol. 2 (Document, 1932–1955)
  • 1932-1948 (Story of the Blues)
  • Goin 'Down Slow ( Prestige Records , 1960)
  • With Muddy Waters (Peter Pan)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Allmusic biography
  2. ^ A b Tony Russell: The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Carlton Books, Dubai 1997, ISBN 1-85868-255-X , p. 151.
  3. ↑ Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - recalled in November 2009

Web links

personal data
SURNAME St. Louis Jimmy Oden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oden, James Burke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, arranger and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1977
Place of death Chicago