Eldee Young

Eldee Young and El Dee Young ( * January 7, 1936 in Chicago, † February 12, 2007 in Bangkok ) was an American jazz bassist.

Eldee Young visited the Americain Conservatory of Music, played in 1951 at King Kolax and then went with rhythm and blues singers such as Chuck Willis (1954 ) Big Joe Turner, T -Bone Walker and Joe Williams on tour. From 1956 to 1966 Young served on the Ramsey Lewis Trio and worked and a: at the Verve album Down to Earth by 1958. Then the band broke up, and he formed with drummer Redd Holt bands like Young -Holt Unlimited, reached their record "The Soulful Strut " gold status. 1983 there was a revival of the old Ramsey Lewis Trio. With the Asian pianist Jeremy Monteiro Young and Holt 1988 occurred at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Young also accompanied James Moody, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Brown Jr. He then worked in the field of film music and in radio and television shows. With his own quartet, he could also be heard on cello and vocals. In 1991 he accompanied the singer Eden Atwood; In 1999, he belonged to the band of George Freeman. In his last years he played regularly each half a year in Singapore and Bangkok ( in the "Living Room", Sheraton Hotel). There he had his final appearance on 10 February 2007. He died at the Hotel of heart failure.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Just for Kicks ( Argo, 1962)

Lexigraphic entries

• Carlo Bohländer inter alia: Reclams jazz leader. Reclam, Stuttgart, 1977.