Snooky Young
Eugene " Snooky " Young ( born February 3, 1919 in Dayton, Ohio; † 11 May 2011 Newport Beach, California ) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player, and saxophonist and singer.
Life and work
Young played since the age of five trumpet. He began his musical career as a twenty- year-old in Dayton. He was then as a solo trumpeter of the Jimmie Lunceford band (1939-1942) known. Later he worked with the bands of Lionel Hampton, Gerald Wilson and from 1945 to 1947 with Count Basie. Until 1957 he led his own band, to return afterwards to Count Basie.
Since 1962 he was a studio musician at NBC, where he was a member of the Tonight Show Orchestra. In 1966 he was one of the founding members of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, with whom he regularly appeared in the episode. In 1971, he starred in Charles Mingus ' Big band (Let My Children Hear Music ). In 1972 he went to the Doc Severinsens Tonight Show band to Los Angeles; he belonged to the orchestra until its dissolution in 1992. Young played only three albums as a bandleader, but seemed to almost six hundred albums as a sideman with, among others at Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Frank Capps Juggernaut, Benny Carter, Jimmy Cheatham, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Gil Evans, Benny Goodman, Johnny Hodges, Milt Jackson, JJ Johnson, Hank Jones / Oliver Nelson, Quincy Jones, Carmen McRae, Zoot Sims and Dinah Washington.
In 2009 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Boys from Dayton with Norris Turney, Booty Wood, Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Cliff Smalls, Billy Butler, Al Hall, Mickey Roker, 1971, 1975
- Snooky & Marshall's album with Marshall Royal, Ross Tompkins, Freddie Green, Ray Brown, Louie Bellson, Scatman Crothers, 1978
- Horn of Plenty ( Concord Records) with Ross Tompkins, John Collins, Ray Brown, Jake Hanna, 1979
- Word of Mouth by Jaco Pastorius, 1981
- In a Mellotone ( Contemporary) with Bob Cooper