Woody Walder
Woodrow "Woody" Walder (born December 25, 1903 in Dallas , Texas , † February 9, 1978 in Kansas City , Missouri ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet ).
Walder worked from the early 1920s in Kansas City in the Bennie Moten Orchestra and from 1923 was also involved in its radio recordings for WHB, which could be heard as far as Canada and Cuba. He toured with Moten and can also be heard on their records with Ada Brown and Mary H. Bradford . He stayed with Moten until 1931 and in the following years led the formation Walder Brother's Swing Unit together with his brother Herman Walder (1905–1991) , without leaving any further recordings. Then he and his brother were part of the Rocket Swing Unit , which performed at the Spinning Wheel in Kansas City for three years, before leading his own band, the Swingsters . In the field of jazz he was involved in 23 recording sessions between 1923 and 1931. With Moten he wrote the piece Kansas City Breakdown , which was recorded not only by Moten, but also by Keith Nichols with his Blue Devils.
Web links
- Woody Walder in the DAHR database , see also other database entries: A B C (English). Retrieved June 17, 2019.
- Woody Walder at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Driggs , Chuck Haddix Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005, pp. 44f.
- ^ Frank Driggs, Chuck Haddix Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History , p. 158
- ^ Frank Driggs, Chuck Haddix Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History , p. 204
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 1, 2017)
- ↑ Keith Nichols & the Blue Devils Kansas City Breakdown on Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walder, Woody |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walder, Woodrow |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1978 |
| Place of death | Kansas City (Missouri) |