Terry Pollard

Terry Jean Pollard (born August 15, 1931 in Detroit , † December 16, 2009 ) was an American vibraphonist and pianist of modern jazz .

Live and act

Terry Pollard was only active in the jazz scene for a short time in the 1950s; she worked from 1948 in bands in her hometown, in 1948 and 1952/1953 she worked with Billy Mitchell , also with Johnny Hill (1948/1949) and Emmit Slay (1950-1952). Her membership in the quartet of Terry Gibbs , in which she played both piano and vibraphone, brought her greater fame ; with him she also formed a vibraphone duo. Jutta Hipp named her as leading jazz musicians alongside Lorraine Geller and Elli Frankel in an issue of Jazz Podium from 1954 in an article on women in jazz music.

Pollard was involved in the recordings of Gibbs and Dick Garcia . In 1955 she recorded an album under her own name on the Bethlehem Records label . In 1957 she retired from the jazz scene to take care of her family. In 1958/1959 recordings were made with Yusef Lateef , in 1961 with Dorothy Ashby . According to Scott Yanow , Pollard's vibraphone style is similar to that of Bobby Hutcherson , Milt Jackson, and Karl Berger ; her piano style is reminiscent of Patti Bown and Beryl Booker and is influenced by Bud Powell . With Beryl Booker, she took Cats vs. Chicks up, in which a women's septet (alongside Booker and Pollard Norma Carson tr, Corky Hecht Harp, Mary Osborne g, Elaine Leighton dr, Bonnie Wetzel b) competes against a men's septet under Clark Terry (organized by Leonard Feather at MGM Records).

Lexigraphic entry

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .

Web links

• Terry Pollard at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary at All About Jazz ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2010 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.