Buddy Johnson

Woodrow Wilson "Buddy" Johnson ( born January 10, 1915 in Darlington, South Carolina, † February 9, 1977 in New York City ) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and bandleader.

Buddy Johnson visited Paris in 1937 as a pianist of the Cotton Club Revue Tramp Band, founded in 1939 his own ensemble, with whom he performed in night clubs and he expanded in 1944 to a 14 - man band; they mainly played at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem and toured in the Southern States. Among the most famous recordings of his orchestra, whose permanent singer was his sister Ella Johnson, include the title of " Please Mr. Johnson " in 1940, "One of them Good Ones " in 1944, "When My Man Comes Come" (1944, his first hit in the charts ), "Li 'Dog " in 1947 and " Shufflin' and Rollin ' " 1952. In 1960 he worked on the Candid label with at Clark Terry's album Colour Changes.

Carlo Bohländer called Johnson with his drummer Cliff James as a pioneer of rhythm and blues, in whose style he played from 1939. Buddy Johnson is not to be confused with the trombonist of the Excelsior Brass Band (ca. 1870-1927 ) and the tenor saxophonist Budd Johnson.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Buddy Johnson & Ella Johnson 1953 - 1964 ( Bear Family Records)