Willard McDaniel

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Willard McDaniel (born March 12, 1877 in Missouri , † 1967 in Pomona , California ) was an American rhythm & blues and jazz pianist who worked in the music scene in Los Angeles.

Life

78er from Black & White Records by the Red Callender Trio from 1946 with Willard McDaniel and Leonard "Lucky" Enois (guitar): "Red Light" / "Be Happy Pappy"

McDaniel started playing the piano in early childhood. From the mid-1930s he lived in California, where he played with Roy Milton . From the mid-1940s he worked with Red Callender and Irving Ashby , and in the following years he accompanied the vocalists Joe Alexander, Ernestine Anderson , Percy Mayfield , T-Bone Walker ( T Bone Shuffle , Midnight Blues , # 11 in the R&B chart ), Meredith Howard , Micky Cooper , Jimmy Witherspoon , Pearl Traylor , Gene Parrish , Helen Humes , Jimmy Nelson , Roy Hawkins , Smokey Hogg, and Donna Hightower at recordings.

In 1952 he had the first opportunity to record the tracks Ciribiribin Boogie and Blues for Mimi (# 424) in trio (with Al Morgan, bass and Bill Streets, drums) for Specialty Records , followed by singles such as Blues on the Delta (# 415). He recorded other numbers for Crown Records in 1953/54 (including the singles Your Feet's Too Big / I'm Waiting for Ships (# 101), The Curse of an Aching Heart / My Sin (# 107), If I Had My Life To Live Over (# 117), Baby Be Good / Only A Fool (# 129), partly with an extended line-up with Milt Bernhart , Vido Musso , Bumps Myers , Jewell Grant and Maxwell Davis , with whom also in early 1959 McDaniel's last record session was ( Music By Lionel Hampton and Others , Crown)). In 1958, McDaniel's only LP, 88 a la Carte , was released on the label . In the field of jazz and R&B he was involved in 50 recording sessions between 1945 and 1959, including a. with Vido Musso ( The Swingin'st ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 18, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME McDaniel, Willard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rhythm & blues and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Missouri
DATE OF DEATH 1967
Place of death Pomona , California