Herman Autrey

Herman Autrey ( born December 4, 1904 in Evergreen, Alabama, † June 14, 1980 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter of the swing.

Autrey began his career on the alto sax in his father's band; he later switched to the trumpet, moved to Pittsburgh in 1923, where he played with local bands and toured the southern states; in Florida, he worked with his own band. He settled - after stints in Boston, Washington DC and Philadelphia, 1933 - in New York City down and played with Charlie Johnson ( 1933-34 ) in Small's Paradise, then with Fletcher Henderson ( 1935), Claude Hopkins (1938 /9), and was intermittently until 1941 member of the band "Fats " to hear on recordings such as" Waller & his Rhythm Let's Pretend There's a Moon " in 1934 or" Do not You Know or Do not You Care " 1935. He went in 1942 to Stuff Smith, had a band on the West Coast and worked until 1944, when Benny Waters. He then started his own business, playing with his own bands in Brooklyn, but also in Canada. He took in 1958 with Buster Bailey. In 1960 he had his own quartet in 1961 and his own trio. He played in the 1960s in the Dixieland band Saints and Sinners of Vic Dickenson and Red Richards. In 1968, he guested on the Frankfurt Jazz Festival. In the 1970s, he appeared even in the New York club Jimmy Ryan's.

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• Carlo Bohländer: Reclams jazz leader. Stuttgart 1989