Tiny Bradshaw

Myron "Tiny" Bradshaw (born September 23, 1905 in Youngstown , Ohio ; † November 26, 1958 in Cincinnati ) was an American band leader, singer, arranger and producer (as well as drummer and pianist) of jazz and rhythm and blues .

Tiny Bradshaw

Bradshaw first studied psychology at Wilberforce University and then sang with Horace Henderson's "Collegians" at college appearances in Ohio. In 1932 he moved to New York City , where he was the drummer with the "Alabamians" by Marion Hardy , the "Charleston Bearcats" (later "Savoy Bearcats") and the "Mills Blue Rhythm Band" and in 1932 sang for Luis Russell . In 1934 he founded his own swing orchestra, which he modeled on Cab Calloway . Hits were u. a. " The Darktown Strutters' Ball " and "Shout Sister Shout".

He was best known with his rhythm and blues band from 1945, as a continuation of a band that he led in the US Army during World War II. Hits were z. B. "Well Oh Well" (1950, King), with which they also had great success with the white audience, "Breaking up the house" (1950), "Train-Kept-a-Rollin" from 1952 (the one with Johnny Burnette 1955 and the Yardbirds in 1965) and "Soft" (1952). The band's singer was from 1952 a. a. Tiny Kennedy, saxophonists Rufus Gore and Red Prysock . In 1954 he toured with Dinah Washington . In the last years of his life he had increasing health problems, he suffered several strokes. Jimmy Coe , Gigi Gryce , Sonny Stitt , Russell Procope , Red Prysock, Shadow Wilson , Charlie Shavers , Billy Kyle , Shad Collins , Gil Fuller , Charlie Fowlkes , Sil Austin and Billy Ford played in his band at times .

Lexical entry

Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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SURNAME	Bradshaw, Tiny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bradshaw, Myron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American band leader of jazz and rhythm and blues
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Youngstown , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1958
Place of death	Cincinnati