Vernon Isaac

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Vernon "Vern" Clarence Isaac (born October 21, 1913 in Pittsburg (Texas) , † December 16, 1999 ) was an American jazz musician ( vibraphone , tenor saxophone , clarinet ) and band leader who lived in Canada for many years and a promoter of Ottawa jazz scene was.

Live and act

Isaac grew up in Oklahoma City and went to the same school as Lester Young , Walter Page , Hot Lips Page , Charlie Christian and Jimmy Rushing until 1928 . After his first experiences in theater shows, in which he was active as a dancer and musician, he lived in Kansas City in the early 1930s , where he appeared with musicians such as Bennie Moten , Cab Calloway , Lionel Hampton and Charlie Parker . Isaac toured the United States in the 1930s and played with Count Basie (both 1933 and 1939), Fletcher Henderson and briefly with Duke Ellington , but also lived for several years in Los Angeles , where he was in a big band played. During his military service in World War II from 1942 on, he led an army band in North Africa and Italy. After the end of the war he lived in Philadelphia for a while from 1946 (as had been since 1939) , where he a. a. played in bands with John Coltrane , Pete Biggs, Sonny Rollins and Pearl Bailey and formed the band Three Jacks and a Jill . The formation also played bassist Charles Biddle , with whom he moved to Montreal in 1948 , where he lived until 1973. There he led show bands that performed in Montmartre and Rockhead's Paradise ; he also directed the LVJ Trio and toured Canada with various bands.

The Ottawa International Jazz Festival at the Rideau Center 2006

From the mid-1970s Isaac lived in Ottawa, where he was a founding member and chairman of the Jazz Ottawa Initiative . a. responsible for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival . There he founded his own big band in the mid-1970s , with which he performed in 1991 at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal . After his death in 1999, friends started the Vernon Isaac Memorial Scholarship .

Discographic notes

  • LVJ Trio: The Big Bamboo (1968, Vintage SCV) with Jimmy Valdez (organ), Lem Neal (drums)
  • Vernon Isaac Orchestra: Live! Downstairs San Antonio Rose (1984, VIC Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short portrait of Ron Sweetman at Jazz House
  2. ↑ Portrait in the Ottawa Citizen ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 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 / blogs.ottawacitizen.com
  3. ↑ Portrait on vernonisaac.org
  4. ↑ Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 1991 ( Memento des Originals from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted 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.montrealjazzfest.com
  5. ^ Vernon Isaac Society
personal data
SURNAME Isaac, Vernon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isaac, Vernon Clarence (full name); Isaac, Vern (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburg, Texas
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1999