Stanley Mendelson

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Stanley "Hap" Mendelson (* 1923 ; † October 4, 2002 ) was an American jazz pianist from Dixieland .

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Mendelson grew up in New Orleans and studied music at Loyola University. From the late 1940s he played in the city's traditional jazz scene a. a. with Raymond Burke (with whom the first recordings were made in 1948), in the following decade a. a. also with Johnny Wiggs , Papa Jack Laine , Santo Pecora , Lizzie Miles , Monk Hazel , Jack Delaney , Sharkey Bonano , Johnny St. Cyr , Alvin Alcorn , Joe Mares , George Girard and Percy Humphrey . For ten years he was a member of the Dukes of Dixieland around Jac, Fred and Frank Assunto ; Mendelson also participated in his recordings with Louis Armstrong . In the 1960s he still played with Chink Martin / Joe Capraro ; In 1974 he recorded the solo album Storyville Piano (Land o 'Jazz). In the field of jazz he was involved in 58 recording sessions between 1948 and 1984, most recently with the N'Orleans Statesmen ( A Museum Artifact: The Story of Jazz ) around Clive Wilson , Frog Joseph , Joe Darensbourg , Danny Barker and Freddie Kohlman . Mendelson, whose game was heavily influenced by Armand Hug's ragtime style , died in October 2002 at the age of 79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary. The Dukes of Dixieland, October 20, 2002, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ Jazz Report , Volume 8, Jazz Report Magazine, 1972
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 27, 2017)
  4. ^ Charles Suhor: Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970 . Lanham & London: Scarecrow Press, 2001, p. 179
  5. ↑ Obituaries in the News at The Associated Press (2002)
personal data
SURNAME Mendelson, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendelson, Hap
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2002