Bernard Addison

Bernard Addison ( born April 15, 1905 in Annapolis, Maryland, † December 22, 1990 in Rockville Centre, New York) was an American jazz guitarist and banjo player.

Life and work

Addison played mandolin and violin as a child; In 1920 his family moved to Washington, DC, where Claude Hopkins was a classmate. With it worked in the 1920s, also with Rex Stewart and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. He then moved to New York, played in Small's Paradise as a sideman and as a leader of his own band; In 1928 he switched from banjo to guitar and played with Art Tatum in the Milton Senior band.

In 1930 he accompanied Adelaide Hall and joined the band of Louis Armstrong, in the place of the guitarist had become vacant. This he came into the scene of the former jazz greats and played over the years with Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Luis Russell, Sam Wooding or Coleman Hawkins. Later Addison worked with Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson ( 1933-34 ), Adrian Rollini 1935, the Mills Brothers 1936-1939 (for example, London Rhythm ' 1937 Long About Midnight 1939) and went with them on a European tour; 1939/40, he played with Stuff Smith and led his own formation, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After the Second World War, he played with Snub Mosley and The Ink Spots, 1959, Eubie Blake. In the late 1950s he worked increasingly as a classical guitarist. In the last phase of his life, Addison worked only sporadically as a freelance musician, but mostly as a music teacher.

Addison was in the 1930s as one of the best rhythm guitarist with changing chords understood masterfully elegant solos except the single string game.

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