Ed Shaughnessy

Edwin Thomas " Ed" Shaughnessy ( born January 29, 1929 in Jersey City, † May 24, 2013 in Calabasas ) was an American jazz drummer.

Career

Shaughnessy learned from 1943 autodidact drums, but then received instructions from his friend with him Sid Catlett. He began his professional career in 1946 with Jack Teagarden and 1948 with George Shearing, with Georgie Auld and Charlie Ventura ( 1948 to 1950 ). In the 1950s he was a member of the bands of Benny Goodman ( 1950 European tour, during which he participated in the Roy Eldridge and His Little Jazz Vol 1 session) and Tommy Dorsey (1950), Lucky Millinder (1951) and worked Johnny Richards. Then he began to work as a studio musician in New York. In the late 1950s he had with Teddy Charles, the group Jazz Four. At the same time, he studied in the late 1950s Piano, cornet and composition.

In the early 1960s he was a partner of Count Basie ( in five albums recordings ) and became a member of the orchestra under Doc Severinsen of the Tonight Show, which he thirty years until 1992 belonged (from 1972 in Los Angeles ). In addition, Shaughnessy was a wanted big band musician. In 1962 he was a member of Orchestra USA. He worked among others with Gene Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, Mundell Lowe, Teo Macero, Charles Mingus, Shirley Scott, Jack Sheldon and Horace Silver and can be heard on over five hundred albums.

He derived his own band in 1974, the Energy Force. In the 1980s and 90s, he also taught at New York University and taught courses at Skidmore College, but was also previously teaching in numerous clinics. In 1990 his album Jazz in the Pocket ( with his quintet Jazz in the Pocket, Tom Peterson, Bruce Paulson, Tom Ranier, John Leitham ).

Shaughnessy also composed (Nigerian Walk, Blues Detambour ).