Stan Wrightsman

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Stanley "Stan" Wrightsman (born June 15, 1910 in Gotebo , Oklahoma , † December 17, 1975 in Palm Springs , California ) was an American jazz pianist (also Celesta ).

Live and act

Stan Wrightsman's father was a musician; He made his first experiences as a professional musician in his band before he played in a hotel band in Gulfport, Mississippi , as well as in Territory bands in Oklahoma. In 1930 he moved to New Orleans and played there with Ray Miller, in 1935/36 in Chicago with Ben Pollack . An illness interrupted his career; in California in 1937 he worked in the orchestra of Seger Ellis , with which the first recordings were made, in the following years mainly with Spike Jones and his City Slickers .

In the 1940s and 1950s Wrightsman played in various big bands and ensembles (mainly traditional jazz ), such as Artie Shaw , Wingy Manone , Eddie Miller , Rudy Vallée , Nappy Lamare , Johnny Mercer , Harry James , Bob Crosby (1950 / 51), Matty Matlock , Pete Fountain , The Rampart Street Paraders , Ray Bauduc , Wild Bill Davison, and Bob Scobey . He also worked on the soundtracks of Blues in the Night (1941), in which he doubled Richard Whorf on piano, Syncopation (1942) as well as in the Jack Webb film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) and the Red-Nichols biopic The Five Pennies (1958) with. He appeared as a pianist in the feature film The Crimson Canary .

Wrightsman worked again with Pete Fountain in the 1960s and continued his work in Hollywood studios. At the end of the decade he moved to Las Vegas, where he was an accompanist for Wayne Newton and Flip Wilson . In the field of jazz he was involved in 174 recording sessions between 1937 and 1971. a. also in recordings by Louis Armstrong , Eartha Kitt , George Van Eps and Peggy Lee , which he accompanied on the celesta in 1944 (“That Old Feeling”).

The Beat Generation author Neal Cassady described him in 1948 as an “all too underrated pianist”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J492400
  2. ^ Wrightsman appeared on the radio show The Johnny Mercer Chesterfield Music Shop ; see. Glenn T. Eskew: Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World . 2013, p. 177
  3. ↑ Sheri Chinen Biesen: Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films . 2014 - page 182
  4. ↑ Including as a double for Connee Boswell ; see. Rebecca D. Clear Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress . 1993, p. 137
  5. ↑ In the film (director: John Hoffman, 1945) the members of a jazz combo are suspected of murder. Other musicians who appeared in this film included a. the Esquire All-American Band Winners with Coleman Hawkins , Howard McGhee , Oscar Pettiford , Denzil Best and Charles Thompson , as well as singers Josh White and Mel Tormé as drummers.
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 17, 2014)
  7. ^ Billboard Sept. 10, 1955, p. 24
  8. ^ Billboard Aug. 5, 1944
  9. ^ Letter to Bill Tomson, August 10, 1948, In: Neal Cassady, Dave Moore Collected Letters, 1944-1967 . ed. 200
personal data
SURNAME Wrightsman, Stan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrightsman, Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotebo (Oklahoma)
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1975
Place of death Palm Springs (California)