Streamline Ewing

Streamline Ewing (* 19th January 1917 in Topeka , Kansas ; † 1. February 2002 in Pasadena , California ; bourgeois John Richard Ewing ) was an American jazz - trombone .

John Richard, called "Streamline" Ewing attended high school in Los Angeles and began his music career with Gene Coy. Ewing became known when he became a member of Horace Henderson's band in 1938 . He then toured with Earl Hines and took part in his recordings between 1938 and 1942. Ewing can be heard in titles such as "Grand Terace Shuffle", "Yellow Fire", "XYZ", "Windy City Jive" and "Swinin 'on C." In the early 1940s he worked briefly in the big bands of Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton , then with Jimmie Lunceford (1943-45), Cab Calloway (1946 and again 1949), Jay McShann (1948), Cootie Williams (1950) , Louis Jordan and Earl Bostic .

In the early 1950s he moved to California and played with George Jenkins, also as a studio musician a. a. with Bobby Bryant , Sam Cooke , Dr. John ( Dr. John's Gumbo , 1972), BB King , Papa John Creach , T-Bone Walker, and Gerald Wilson . From 1956 he worked for Teddy Buckner ; the two still played together occasionally in the 1980s. Ewing had the opportunity to put together his own band, The Streamliners , in 1958 and 1960 . In 1962 he went on tour again with Horace Henderson; 1967 with Rex Stewart . In the late 1960s he was a member of the Young Men of New Orleans formation . In 1985 and 1990 he went on tour in Europe and Japan with Johnny Otis , and in 1983 he played in the Eagle Brass Band . In his later years he worked as a freelance musician; so he worked on two Willy DeVille albums, Backstreets of Desire (1992) and Big Easy Fantasy (1995).

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .