Tiny Webb
Mitchell "Tiny" Webb (also Big Tiny Webb , * around 1920; † after 1954) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( guitar ).
Live and act
Webb has worked in Los Angeles since the mid-1940s with Happy Johnson , Jesse Perry , Duke Henderson , Dorothy Donegan , Jay McShann , Hadda Brooks , Sylvester Mike , Lowell Fulson , Johnny Crawford , Jimmy Witherspoon ("Miss Clawdy B"), Ray Charles ("Blues Before Sunrise"), Floyd Dixon ("That'll Get It"), Betty Hall Jones and Eddie Williams ; In 1949 he recorded the R&B number "Billboard Special" and the blue track "Tiny's Down Home" under his own name for Modern Records .
That same year, Webb had a number one hit on the Billboard R&B charts with the Red Miller Trio with “Bewildered” ; with the Maxine Trio ("Confession Blues", with Ray Charles) he came in 5th place. In the early 1950s he was involved in recordings of Velma Middleton , Lloyd Glenn , Percy Mayfield , Helen Humes and Earl Bostic . In the field of jazz and rhythm & blues he was involved in 41 recording sessions between 1945 and 1954, most recently with Sonny Knight and the Maxwell Davis Orchestra. Webb, who weighed around 150 kg, died at a young age of complications from obesity .
Web links
- Tiny Webb at Allmusic (English)
- Mitchell Webb at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 17, 2019)
- ^ Roy Porter: There and Back . Oxford: Bayou Press 1995, p. 140.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Webb, Tiny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Webb, Mitchell; Webb, Big Tiny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American R&B and jazz musician (guitar) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1954 |