Al Killian

Albert " Al " Killian (* October 15, 1916 in Birmingham (Alabama ), † September 5, 1950 in Los Angeles ) was an American trumpeter of swing and jump blues.

Biography

Al Killian began his career in the mid 1930s in Charlie Turner's Arcadians tape and then played in the big bands of Baron Lee, Teddy Hill, Don Redman (1940 ), Claude Hopkins, Count Basie ( 1940-1944 ), Charlie Barnet (1943 and 1945/46 ), with Lester Young (Circus in Rhythm ), Slim Gaillard (1939 ), Georgie Auld and Lionel Hampton ( in the period 1942-1946 ), and with Lyle Griffin. In 1946, Killian started his own big band, but gave it up quickly, to go with Norman Granz ' Jazz at the Philharmonic on tour, where he played in 1946 with musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. To 1946/47, he accompanied several blues musicians, such as T- Bone Walker, with whom he " had received the title " It's A Low Down " Dirty Deal " and " I'm in a Awful Mood. During this time he went with bands of Billy Eckstine, Earl Spencer, Tom Talbert and Boyd Raeburn on tour before he briefly a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra was ( as successor to Cat Anderson ); he performed with Ellington at the Carnegie Hall concert in 1947 and went in 1950 with him on tour in Europe. That's when a recording session under his own name in Stockholm, at the Lester Young also participated. Al Killian fiery, high playing sound was very popular then. He was regarded as an excellent lead trumpet and was active as a composer. After leaving Ellington's band, he settled in Los Angeles where he was murdered at the age of 33 years by his ( mentally ill ) owner.

The percussionist Lawrence Killian is a nephew of Al Killian.

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