John Chilton

John James Chilton (* July 16, 1932 in London ) is an English jazz writer and jazz trumpeter.

Life and work

Chilton comes from the working class. His father was a comedian in a music hall. At age 12 he began playing the cornet and trumpet 17. After two years in the RAF he founded in the early 1950s his own band, with whom he played in one of the " Butlins " Amusement Parks in Skegness, including with the comedian Dave Allen. From 1958 to 1963 he played in Bruce Turner's band Jump, Jack Gold of the 1961 film "Living Jazz" turned. In the 1960s he played in the big bands of Mike Daniels and Alex Welsh, played with pop bands such as the " Swinging Blue Jeans" and founded towards the end of the decade his own band "Swing Kings ", with which he, inter alia, by traveling American jazz musicians such as Buck Clayton, Ben Webster, Bill Coleman and Charlie Shavers accompanied.

In early 1974 he founded the " Feetwarmers " in which he also the jazz singer ( and satirist ) George Melly and the clarinetist ( and cartoonist ) Wally Fawkes played. With the Feetwarmers which existed until 2003, Chilton went on worldwide tours, appeared frequently on television and even had 1983/4 own BBC series ( " Good Time George "). He also wrote a number of well-researched jazz biographies and two " Who's Who of Jazz" (once for traditional American jazz and once for British jazz ) and in 2007 an autobiography. For his biographies of Louis Jordan and Coleman Hawkins, he received prices of the " American Association of Recorded Sound Collections ." For his biographies of Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, he became an honorary citizen of New Orleans. For " liner notes " for the album " Bunny Berigan " ( Time Life Records in 1982, in the series " Jazz Giants " ), he received a Grammy in 1983. Chilton is also a composer and songwriter.

Works

  • Max Jones: " Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story," da Capo paperback 1988 ( first London 1971), ISBN 0306803240, German " The Louis Armstrong Story," Herder 1972
  • " Ride Red Ride - the Life of Henry " Red " Allen", Continuum International Publishing Group 2000, ISBN 0826447449
  • " Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant", Continuum International Publishing Group 2003, ISBN 0826465358
  • " McKinney 's Music - A bio - discography of McKinney 's Cotton Pickers ', Bloomsbury Bookshop 1978
  • "A Jazz Nursery - The Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Bands in Charleston, South Carolina ", Bloomsbury Bookshop 1980
  • " Teach Yourself Jazz", Hodder and Stoughton 1979 ISBN 034023847X ( and Random House )
  • " Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Story of Bob Crosby's Bob Cats ," Jazz Book Service 1983, ISBN 0950129038
  • "Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan", University of Michigan Press 1997, ISBN 047208478X
  • "Billie 's Blues - A survey of Billie Holiday's Career", Stein and Day Publishing, 1975, ISBN 0306803631 da Capo 1989
  • " The Song of the Hawk - The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins ," University of Michigan Press, 1990, ISBN 0472082019
  • "Who's Who of Jazz - Storyville to Swing Street," da Capo, 4th edition, 1985, ISBN 0306802430 ( first Bloomsbury Bookshop 1970)
  • "Who's Who of British Jazz", Continuum International Publishing Group 2004, ISBN 0826472346
  • "Hot Jazz, Warm Feet " ( Autobiography ), London, Northway Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9550908-3-7.

Media

  • Nuts (1972 )
  • Son of Nuts (1973 )
  • It's George (1974 )
  • Making Whoopee (1982 )
  • Best of Live (1995 )
  • Anything Goes (1996 )
  • Good Time George
  • The Ultimate Melly (2006, with Van Morrison )

Comments

  • Jazz trumpeter
  • Jazz Author
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1932
  • Man
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