Tadd Dameron

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Tadd Dameron. Photo: William P. Gottlieb .

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."

Tadd Dameron and Fats Navarro . Photo: William P. Gottlieb.
Fats Navarro, Charlie Rouse , Ernie Henry and Tadd Dameron. Photo: William P. Gottlieb

He died of cancer at the age of 48.

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  1. ^ Anniversary of the death of Carlo Bohländer a. a. Reclam's Jazz Guide 1989
  2. ↑ Dameron is his stepfather's name
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 , p. 224.
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz-Standards , 2001, pp. 181f.
personal data
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