Trummy Young

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Trummy Young (right) and Jimmie Lunceford , early 1940s.
Photography by William P. Gottlieb .

James Osborne "Trummy" Young (* 12. January 1912 in Savannah , Georgia ; † 10. September 1984 in San Jose , California ) was an American jazz - trombone player , singer and composer of Swing .

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Trummy Young grew up in Washington, DC and became a professional musician with Booker Colemans Hot Chocolates in 1928 . He then worked in other local bands and 1934-37 in Earl Hines ' orchestra, but only became known through his collaboration with Jimmy Lunceford 1937-43. Young then played with Charlie Barnet 1943-44, Boyd Raeburn , Benny Goodman and Tiny Grimes . Through Grimes he came into contact with bebop pianist Clyde Hart , in whose 1945 session for Continental with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie he took part. Young also toured with Jazz At The Philharmonic and directed his own ensembles. From 1947 to 1952 he stayed in Hawaii . From the summer of 1952 he became a member of Louis Armstrong's All Stars, with whom he visited Europe several times. In 1964 he left the All Stars, settled permanently in Hawaii and only played occasionally at jazz parties or for special occasions. When the Smithsonian Institution (department of performing arts) invited him, he took B. at. In September 1976, a six-hour tape recording was made about his life and musical career.

His technically brilliant playing, in which he often made use of the highest registers of his instrument, can be heard in Earl Hines' Copenhagen 1934 and Rhythm Sunday 1937, in Jimmy Lunceford's Annie Laurie 1937, his only hit “Margie” (in which he also sang) and "Down by the Old Mill Stream" 1938, "Blue Blazes", "Easter Parade", "Belgium Stomp", "Think Of Me Little Daddy" and "Lunceford Special" 1939 as well as in "Bugs Parade" 1940. Together with Sy Oliver , then trumpeter and arranger at Lunceford, he wrote the hit "'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", which reached # 11 on the Billboard charts in February 1939 . He is also the vocal soloist in recordings with Louis Armstrong and on Lunceford's "'Tain't What You Do", "Cheatin' On Me", "The Lonesome Road Easter Parade", "Ain't She Sweet", "Think Of Me." Little Daddy ”and“ I'm In An Awful Mood ”in 1939.
Young also played records with Buck Clayton and Illinois Jacquet .

According to his own biography, printed in the July 22, 1977 (October 22, 1977 - German) edition of the Awake! (Magazine of Jehovah's Witnesses), Trummy Young became a Jehovah's Witness in 1964. He was married to Sally Tokashiki, with whom he had two daughters, Barbara and Andrea Young, who is an excellent jazz singer herself.

Trummy Young died on September 10, 1984 after a brain haemorrhage.

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SURNAME Young, trummy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, James Osborne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Savannah , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1984
Place of death San Jose , California