Tadd Dameron
Tadley Ewing (Tadd) Dameron (* 21 February 1917 in Cleveland , Ohio , † 8. March 1965 in New York ; born Tadley Ewing Peake) was an American jazz - pianist , composer and arranger . With Gil Fuller and Dizzy Gillespie he was one of the pioneering arrangers of early bebop .
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Tadd Dameron took piano lessons at the age of four; from his brother Caesar, who was also a jazz musician, he later learned to play the saxophone. Dameron taught himself to orchestrate himself - he wrote his first arrangements for the Jeter-Pillars Big Band in Cleveland in 1938. In New York's Minton’s Playhouse he came across Charlie Parker and the bebop avant-garde. He began to write arrangements for the bop orchestras of Dizzy Gillespie ( Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ) and Billy Eckstine ( Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra ) , during which he earned his living as a factory worker. With Miles Davis he played in 1949 at the Festival International 1949 de Jazz in the Salle Pleyel in Paris ; this concert was to have a decisive influence on the success of modern jazz in France. He has also recorded with Clifford Brown , John Coltrane , Gil Evans and Kenny Dorham .
He spent several years in prison in 1958 for a drug offense. This more or less ended his active artistic career; but he continued to write arrangements. “While the other pioneers of bebop shone primarily through virtuosity, Dameron was not the outstanding instrumentalist, but the only one in this group who invented professionally arranged, orchestral introductions, invented great ballads and the fourth part sounded interesting in a brass section could leave. "
Dameron will probably be remembered best for his compositions: With Fontainebleau (1956) he wrote “the first completely composed work of jazz”; Pieces like Good Bait , Lady Bird , If You Could See Me Now or Hot House have become jazz standards . His compositions "are among the most vocal and melodically catchy of bebop."
He died of cancer at the age of 48.
Recordings (selection)
- 1949 Cool Boppin ' ( Fresh Sound ) with Miles Davis, Kai Winding , Sahib Shihab, Kenny Clarke
- 1949 The Miles Davis and Dameron Quartet: In Paris Festival International de Jazz, May 1949 ( Columbia )
- 1956 Fontainebleau ( Prestige / OJC ) with Kenny Dorham , Cecil Payne , Sahib Shihab
- Fontainebleu
- 1956 Mating Call (Prestige / OJC) with John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones
- 1962 The Magic Touch ( Riverside / OJC) with Clark Terry , Ernie Royal , Charlie Shavers , Tate Houston , Bill Evans , Ron Carter
literature
- Ian MacDonald: Tadd - the life and legacy of Tadley Ewing Dameron , Sheffield 1998 (with discography).
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1986.
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - his life, his music, his records ; Gauting, Oreos Verlag, 1985.
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- Biography on the Dameron-Dameron Family Association Page
- Ian MacDonald's Dameron biography Tadd: Life and Legacy of Tadley Ewing Dameron reviewed on the City of Cleveland, Ohio website
Individual evidence
- ^ Anniversary of the death of Carlo Bohländer a. a. Reclam's Jazz Guide 1989
- ↑ Dameron is his stepfather's name
- ↑ According to Ian MacDonald, stories about studying medicine at Oberlin College or a stay abroad in North Africa in the 1940s belong in the realm of legends
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 , p. 224.
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz-Standards , 2001, pp. 181f.
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SURNAME | Dameron, Tadd |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dameron, Tadley Ewing (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1917 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1965 |
Place of death | New York , USA |