Haywood Henry
Haywood Henry (actually Frank Haywood Henry, born January 10, 1913 in Birmingham ( Alabama), † September 15, 1994 in Bronx, New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( alto and baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute also ), which has emerged as a studio musician in the rhythm 'n' blues.
Life and work
Henry received from his sister, who worked in Birmingham as an organist and pianist, gave a tenor saxophone. He attended Alabama State Teachers College and played in 1930 with the Bama Street Collegians, which included Dud Bascomb and Erskine Hawkins ( 1931-1932 ). In 1934 he moved to New York City. For a tour of 1935 he went back to the Collegians who were renamed as Erskine Hawkins Orchestra; there he remained until the mid-1950s. Between 1940 and 1942 he was occasionally employed as a substitute for Harry Carney in the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He also worked with Tiny Grimes, Julian Dash ( 1951). 1957 to 1958 he was one of the led by Rex Stewart Fletcher Henderson Reunion on tape; in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he played with the band of Reuben Phillips at the Apollo Theater. As a session musician he worked (often with Mickey Baker) at over a thousand rock & roll records with; From the early 1960s he played with Wilbur DeParis, Max Kaminsky, Snub Mosley, Louis Metcalf, Earl Hines ( 1969-1971 ) and worked as a musician in Broadway shows like Is not Misbehavin. From 1972 to 1980 he played with Sy Oliver and the New York Jazz Repertory Company, with whom he also toured in the Soviet bloc. Henry took in 1971 with the Erskine Hawkins Band Reunion and was until the early 1990s, including the Duke 's Men and the Harlem Jazz & Blues Band active ( touring in Denmark). In 1955 he took under his own name on, inter alia, with Everett Barksdale and Bobby Donaldson. Under his own name Henry recorded an album for Davis Records ( 1957), in the early 1960s for beach and yet in 1983 for Uptown. In 1978 he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
As a studio musician, he has participated in recordings, inter alia, Skeeter Best, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, King Curtis, Varetta Dillard (1953 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Harris, Screamin 'Jay Hawkins, Billie Holiday ( 1951), Buddy Johnson (1956 ), Al King, Warren Lucky, Big Maybelle (The Okeh Sessions, 1955), Amos Milburn, Nina Simone, Rex Stewart (1958), Sam " The Man" Taylor (Swing station, 1955), Clark Terry, The Treniers, Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Witherspoon with. He was also involved as a musician in the soundtracks to the Spike Lee movie School Daze and Mo ' Better Blues.