Will Hudson
Will Hudson (born March 8, 1908 in Barstow , California , † July 16, 1981 in Isle of Palms , South Carolina ) was an American arranger , composer and bandleader of swing . Between 1936 and 1938 he was co-leader of the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra .
Act
Hudson arranged for McKinney's Cotton Pickers , Earl Hines , Andy Kirk , Fletcher Henderson , Don Redman and Jimmie Lunceford in the late 1920s . From 1936 to 1938 he led a swing band with the songwriter Eddie DeLange ; her Hudson-DeLange Orchestra existed until 1938; he had another formation in 1939/40. He then wrote arrangements for music publishers, studied composition at the New York Juilliard School of Music from 1948 and then gave up jazz.
Hudson wrote et al. a. 1936 with the songwriter Mitchell Parish the composition Organ Grinder's Swing . Moonglow , the title created with DeLange, also developed into the jazz standard . Johnny Guarnieri recorded an album of songs by Hudson and Eddie DeLange. Other songs by the Will Hudson / Eddie DeLange team were "Remember When", "Deep In A Dream", "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?", "Lost April", "Shake Down The Stars", "Solitude." "And" String of Pearls ". Hudson also wrote instrumentals such as "Sophisticated Swing", "Love Song of a Half Wit", "Monopoly Swing", "Eight Bars in Search of a Melody". Similar to Duke Ellington , Irving Mills co-wrote many of his titles that were published by Mills Music Publishing.
Web links
literature
- Carlo Bohländer & Karl Heinz Holler: Reclam's Jazz Guide . Reclam, Stuttgart 1977.
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Colin Larkin (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Third edition. Macmillan, New York 1998.
Remarks
- ↑ The popular hit became known through the film "The Littlest Rebel" (Eng. "The smallest rebel"), in Nazi Germany it was published under the title "Hofkonzert im Hinterhaus". He was interpreted u. a. also by Ella Fitzgerald / Chick Webb , Benny Goodman , Jimmie Lunceford , Sy Oliver , Hazy Osterwald , by Jimmy Smith or Jack McDuff ; see Bohländer, 1977
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hudson, Will |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hudson, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz arranger and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barstow , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1981 |
| Place of death | Isle of Palms (South Carolina) |