Steady Nelson

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Horace Stedman "Steady" Nelson (born March 29, 1913 in Jefferson (Texas) , † January 6, 1988 in Orange County , California ) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.

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Nelson's father, John Bryan Nelson, was a violinist. He played the trumpet in high school and was nicknamed "Steady" because of his middle name (which his Steadman family pronounced). After graduation, he went on tour with a minstrel show and ended up in Houston, where he worked in a laundry. After his marriage in 1935 (the marriage had five children) he worked as a day job as a milk driver and also played in night clubs in the South Main district. He got to New York with a big band .

Nelson, whose trumpet playing was based on Cootie Williams , was a soloist with Woody Herman and His Orchestra from January 1939 , documented on record in 1939 in “Woodchopper's Ball” and in 1940 in “Blue Prelude”. With Herman he also sang some duets like "I'm Comin 'Virginia" and "Rosetta". In 1941 he left the Herman band and first went back to Texas, only to move to California. There he worked as a studio musician in radio shows by Garry Moore , Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante , as well as in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey and Hal McIntyre . In the field of jazz he was involved in 44 recording sessions between 1939 and 1944, also with the Casa Loma Orchestra , Bing Crosby and Mary Ann McCall . In later years he performed with local bands in Southern California.

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  1. ↑ a b Dave Oliphant: Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State . University of Texas Press 2009, pp. 88 f.
  2. ^ Gunther Schuller : The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz 1930-1945 . 1989, page 734.
  3. ↑ Brief portrait of Jess Nelson ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vervemusicgroup.com
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 29, 2015)
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SURNAME Nelson, Steady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nelson, Horace Stedman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Jefferson (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1988
Place of death Orange County, California