Edgar Battle

Edgar William " pudding head" Battle ( born October 3, 1907 in Atlanta, † February 6, 1977 in New York City ) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, trombone, saxophone, piano / organ), arranger and composer.

Life

Battle grew up in a musical family, his mother played guitar, the father of bass and piano. He was early gifted, began playing trumpet at age eight and entered the age of 14 in 1921 to publicly Neil J. Montgomery. In 1922 he founded while he studied at the Morris Brown University, his own band, the Dixie Serenaders, and played with Eddie Heywood Senior. From 1928 he played as a freelancer and soloist, with Gene Coy, Andy Kirk (1930, footage of him exist), Blanche Calloway (1931, recordings exist) and on the side, among others, Ben Webster and Cozy Cole ( 1931). He was also of the late 1920s, yet his own band, which he now called Dixie Ramblers. In 1933 he played with Ira Coffey. In 1934 he played in New York with Sam Wooding and Benny Carter, and Alex Hill, 1935/6 with Willie Bryant (recordings exist with him ), where he not only played on two or three instruments (trumpet, valve trombone, alto saxophone), but also arranged. In 1936 he played in the radio broadcast of the revue George White's Scandals on Broadway, and he also worked much else for the radio. In 1937, he briefly had his own band again, but then focused on arranging and composing. He was very popular and arranged among other Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, Fats Waller 's big band, Paul Whiteman, Count Basie, Jack Teagarden, Louis Prima. During World War II he worked as an electrician at shipyards in New York and had in the 1940s, a big band with trumpeter Shirley Clay. In the 1950s, he tried his hand as a record producer and founded Cosmopolitan Records. In the 1960s, he led a big band from time to time. The licenses of his compositions, including the famous Topsy (1937 written with Eddie Barefield ) and, for example, "Strictly Instrumental ", " Ratamacue ", " Yellow Fire ", " Puddin ' Head Serenade", provided him with a steady income.

Swell

• Philippe Carles, André Clergeat, Jean -Louis Comolli Dictionnaire du Jazz, Robert Laffont, 1988
• Biography of Eugene Chadbourne, Allmusic Guide
• Barry core box (editor): The New Grove 's Dictionary of Jazz, 1996

References

• Jazz Musician
• Composer (Jazz)
• Jazz trumpeter
• Bandleader
• American musician
• Americans
• Born 1907
• Died in 1977
• Man