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Oro M. "Tut" Soper (born April 9, 1910 in Chicago , † March 20, 1987 in Evanston (Illinois) ) was an American musician of Chicago jazz ( piano , also vocals ).

Live and act

Soper played with Wingy Manone in 1928 shortly after he moved from New Orleans to Chicago in clubs 70 Club and Liberty Inn . At Club My Cellar on Clark Street, he performed with his band, which also included Buzzy Knudsen (clarinet) and drummer Dash Burkis . He was friends with the jazz musicians Floyd Bean , David Rose and George Zack . 1930/31 he played in a band consisting of Floyd O'Brien , John Mendell and Rollo Laylan in Janesville, Wisconsin; also in the band of clarinettist Morris Bercov 1934 he played with Frank Snyder's Rhythm Kings (as successor to Jess Stacy ), 1940 in Gadders Club in a band around Floyd O'Brien. During this time he also worked with Eddie Wiggins , Danny Alvin , George Olsen .

Soper recorded two singles in Chicago in January 1944 in a duo with the drummer Baby Dodds for the local record label Steiner Davis , Oronics / Stardust Stomp and It's a Ramble / Thou Swell . In March 1944 he was involved in a session for Signature with clarinetist Bud Jacobson as leader; however, the material remained unpublished. In 1945 he accompanied the semanticist SI Hayakawa during his readings from Reflections on the History of Jazz . In the same year he joined a. a. with Darnell Howard , Boyce Brown , Baby Dodds and Gideon Honoré at a memorial concert for Jimmie Noone .

In 1945/46 he played again with Jacobson's Jungle Kids ( Diga Diga Doo ) and with the Bill Dohler Four (Paramount) and Bud Freeman ( The Man I Love ). 1957 played with Marty Grosz and His Honoris Causa Band ; In 1959 he performed with Bob Scobey at the Cafe Continental . His last recordings were made in 1980 at the meeting of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC) , a. a. with Truck Parham . In the field of jazz he was involved in nine recording sessions between 1944 and 1980. Soper lived on Addison Street near the North Side of Chicago and died in 1987 at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ Tut Soper's Memories of Chicago in conversation with Bert Whyatt in IAJRC Journal
  3. ↑ Ralph Venables, Clifford Jones, Discographical Society Eye Witness Jazz . 1946, page 7
  4. ^ Sandor Demlinger, John Steiner: Destination Chicago Jazz. 2003, p. 122.
  5. ↑ William F. Lee: People in Jazz: Jazz Keyboard Improvisors of the 19th & 20th Centuries: Preragtime, Blues, Folk and Minstrel, Early Ragtime, Dixieland, Ragtime-stride, Blues-boogie, Swing, Prebop, Bop . Columbia Lady Music, 1984, p. 60.
  6. ↑ The other musicians included Johnny Mendell (tp), Pud Brown (ts), Dick McPartland (g), Pat Pattison (kb), Earl Wiley (dr).
  7. ↑ Gerald W. Haslam, Janice E. Haslam: In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of SI Hayakawa , 2011, p. 179
  8. ^ Peter Vacher: Swingin 'on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles . 2015, p. 41
  9. ↑ Jazz Journal International 2000, page 11
  10. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Soper, Tut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soper, Oro M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1987
Place of death Evanston (Illinois)