Dud Bascomb

Dud Bascomb ( born May 16, 1916 in Birmingham ( Alabama) as Wilbur Odell Bascomb Sr., † December 25, 1972 ) was an American jazz trumpeter, best known for his membership in the band of Erskine Hawkins.

Life and work

" Dud " Bascomb was the youngest of ten brothers and sisters; two brothers was the tenor saxophonist Paul Bascomb. As a child he learned piano and then switched to trumpet. With Erskine Hawkins Bascomb played during his student days at the Alabama State Teachers ' School in 1932, where Hawkins led the Bama State Collegians band. Dud Bascomb remained until 1944 in Hawkins ' Orchestra and was heard on many of his recordings as a soloist.

Bascomb left Hawkins to play in Paul Bascombs septet, which grew over the decade Big Band and played in the style of rhythm and blues. He briefly worked in June 1947 at the Duke Ellington Orchestra ( " Beale Street Blues "). In the 1950s, played Bascomb for three years in Tyle 's Chicken Shack in New Jersey, where he led a quintet, which among other things Lou Donaldson belonged. He then went in the 1960s with Sam " The Man" Taylor on tour in Japan and performed with Buddy Tate on in Europe. He took a few albums under his own name on; In 1960 he presented the single When The Moon Comes Over The Mountains / Swing Along (Clock Records). 1959/60 came on as Tuxedo Junction some titles for Savoy Records, but they are only in 1986 appeared as an album. Contributing musicians were, inter alia, Taft Jordan, Sam " The Man" Taylor and Skeeter Best 1979 Bascomb was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.

His son is the jazz-funk bassist and songwriter Wilbur Bascomb.