Clancy Hayes
Clancy Hayes ( born November 14, 1908 in Caney (Kansas) as Clarence Leonard Hayes, † March 3, 1972 in San Francisco ) was an American musician (jazz vocals, banjo, guitar, percussion, piano, drums ) and Songwriter of the New Orleans jazz revival in San Francisco, also known by the nickname " Swingin ' Minstrel '.
Life and work
Clancy Hayes began his career in his home state of Kansas; He lived for a short time in Parsons (Kansas ); the city became the subject of his early song "The Parsons, Kansas Blues". In 1926 he moved to San Francisco and soon became a prominent member of the local jazz scene; later he appeared regularly until the 1950s in radio broadcasts of local station in San Francisco. From 1938 he was a member for two years as a singer, banjo player, and occasionally as a percussionist Lu Watters ' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, which was the leading formation of the Dixieland revival this year. Hayes was also involved in the recordings of the group with Bunk Johnson ( 1944) ( " Careless Love Blues ").
Hayes began early in 1946 to record his own music, as incurred on an early tape recorder unaccompanied recordings, sessions with various musicians in clubs or radio stations. This appeared only in 2001 tapes also contain written by him songs like " George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S., Robert E. Lee ." He can be heard also in addition to guitar and banjo as a ragtime pianist, drummer and percussionist on the washboard.
In the 1950s, he was with Turk Murphy and Lu Watters one of the main representatives of Revival Jazz, also appeared with Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Earl Hines and played a 78er for Mercury Records with the Les Paul Trio in, " Nobody But You" and "On the Street of Regret ". For a long time, he also belonged to Bob Scobeys Frisco Jazz Band until he worked after 1959 with their own groups. In the 1960s, Hayes also played with the Revival formations Firehouse Five Plus Two, Turk Murphy, a forerunner of the World's Greatest Jazz Band and his own groups, including the pianist Ralph Sutton belonged.
Under his own name also emerged recordings for Verve ( 1950), Audio Fidelity ( 1960), Good Time Jazz ( 1963), Delmark, ABC - Paramount and Fat Cat Jazz ( 1969), His repertoire were saloon songs like " Ace in the Hole, "" Wise Guy "and" Silver Dollar "; Hayes also composed his only hit " Huggin 'and Chalkin ' ", the Hoagy Carmichael recorded; Hayes himself played him with Bob Scobeys band. He died in March 1972 in San Francisco to throat cancer after he recently - had played some piano Rags - robbed of its Simme.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Satchel of Song: Clancy Hayes Private Collection Vol 1, 1939-1972 (San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation, ed 2001)
- Clancy Hayes Sings / Lu Watters And His Jazz Band ( Verve Down Home series, 1950, ed ca 1956)
- Bob Scobey 's Frisco Jazz Band w / Clancy Hayes (RCA, 1955)
- Swingin ' Minstrel (Good Time Jazz, 1956)
- Clancy Hayes & The Salty Dogs: Oh! By Jingo ( Delmark, 1964)
- Clancy Hayes / Tommy Gwaltney / the Blues Alley Cats (1972 )