Willie Wilson (musician)

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Willie "Silly Willie" Wilson (born 1932 or 1933, † 1961 ) was an American jazz trombonist of hard bop .

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Wilson, who came from Atlanta, played at the beginning of his musician career in the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (without making any recordings), in 1954 he was a member of the Buddy Griffin Orchestra, with whom he recorded in Chicago for Chess Records (“Please Come Back to Me ").

Wilson's only recording session under his own name for the Jazzline label took place on August 2, 1961, when he led a studio band in New York City with Freddie Hubbard , Pepper Adams , Duke Pearson , Thomas Howard (bass) and Lex Humphries ; He recorded several jazz compositions (including the "Blues for Alvena" he wrote) and the standards The Nearness of You ( Carmichael / Washington ) and Time After Time ( Styne / Cahn ). Wilson died that same year at the age of 28; in the medical report, "accidental ingestion of a highly concentrated soft soap " is given as the cause of death. The material from the Jazzline session appeared after Wilson's death under the name Hubbards in 1966 in the Netherlands by Fontana ( Groovy! ) And under the name Pearsons ( Dedication! ) In 1970 by Prestige Records .

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Teddy Adams, The Up of The Down Beat . 2017
  2. ^ In the original: accidental ingestion of highly concentrated green soap ; quoted to Jet Oct. 26, 1961
  3. ↑ Supplemented by alternate takes of the session, the recordings appeared under Freddie Hubbard's name in 1989 on Black Lion Records under the title Minor Mishap .
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 1, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Willie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silly Willie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1932 or 1933
DATE OF DEATH between August 1961 and October 1961