John Eaton (Pianist)
John Livingston Eaton (* May 29, 1934 in Washington, DC) is an American jazz pianist.
Life and work
Eaton is self-taught and studied from 1952 to 1956 English Literature at Yale University to work later as a teacher. At 22 he had his first appearances with Wild Bill Davison; then he worked with Willie "The Lion" Smith, Teddy Wilson and George Shearing. After his military service (1958 ), he led the early 1960s, its own formation, in which Buck Hill, Stuff Smith, Jay Leonhart, Billy Taylor ( bass ) and George " Dude " Brown played. 1964/65 he worked in a trio of Tommy Gwaltney. From 1968 to 1972 he headed the house band at the jazz club Blues Alley in his hometown, where he gas- tier musicians like Don Byas, Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Kenny Davern, Vic Dickenson, Thad Jones, Ray Nance, Zoot Sims, Benny Carter, Clark Terry and many other musicians accompanied them.
In 1988 he gave the White House a solo concert for President Reagan. In the 1990s, he appeared as a soloist at the Wolf Trap Performance Arts Center; John Eaton also worked as a music historian as part of the Smithsonian Institution Performing Arts jazz program, which was also broadcast nationwide on National Public Radio and the Radio Smithsonian.
Eaton released the album series John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song, which was developed in cooperation with the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and is based on radio broadcasts and interviews with jazz bassist Jay Leonhart. In the program, each an artist or composer of American music will be presented, as Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Vernon Duke, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Loesser, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Swell
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-14-102327-9