Rex Stewart

Rex William Stewart, Jr. ( born February 22, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, † September 7, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American Jazzkornettist.

Life and work

Stewart first played the piano and violin. He worked in the cabarets of Harlem before he worked with Elmer Snowden from 1924. From 1926 he played as a successor of Louis Armstrong in the orchestra of Fletcher Henderson, where he remained as a star soloist of the band until 1932; next he recorded with McKinney 's Cotton Pickers. 1933 Stewart founded his own band; 1934 to 1944 he belonged to the orchestra of Duke Ellington, released records under his own name ( The Duke's Men), played next to 1938 in the studio of the band "Jazz Barons " Timme Rosenkrantz and 1939 in Paris with Django Reinhardt. From the mid- 1940s he had his own bands again; In the late 1940s he was several times in Europe (eg appearances in Paris, Basel, Berlin) and even in Australia ( Melbourne) and increased again with Reinhardt ( Blue Star Session ). In 1951 he retired, ran his own farm and was a disc jockey and program director at radio. Since 1957, he again played in orchestras reunion of former musicians of the Fletcher Henderson band before he was employed by Eddie Condon. In the 1960s, he also wrote for the magazines Downbeat and Playboy, appeared with Benny Carter at the Monterey Jazz Festival, but also with Gil Fuller. 1965 and 1966 he toured in Switzerland and England. He also wrote an autobiography, Boy meets horn.

Stewart summed up by means of his technical skills ( he is considered the inventor of the "half valve" technique) the influences of the great jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Bubber Miley in his style together.

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Down Beat James "Bubber" Miley Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live Billy Taylor (jazz bassist) Lawrence Brown (musician) Tab Smith Ram Ramirez Dave Tough John Levy (musician) Integrated Authority File
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