Johnny Hartman

Johnny Hartman ( born July 3, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois as John Maurice Hartman, † 15 September 1983 in New York City, New York ) was an American jazz singer.

Johnny Hartman began his musical career in the mid -1940s in Earl Hines ' band. After its dissolution in 1947, he spent two years as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's big band with which he recorded several albums; During this time he also had two recording sessions for Regent Savoy Records and under his own name. In 1949, he took with Erroll Garner Trio on Mercury, it was followed in 1951 still a session for Victor. As a first own record appeared in 1956 Songs from the Heart with the quartet by Howard McGhee on the small label Bethlehem, but little attention has been paid. To a great success, however, was the album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, 1963, which boosted his career. The Ballad contained on Lush Life was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. There followed a number of other albums in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980 he produced his last great album Once in Every Life, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1981 in a New York studio.

1986 Hartman was admitted posthumously into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. The 1995 shot by Clint Eastwood movie The Bridges of Madison County, which used songs from Hartman's album Once in Every Life on the soundtrack, the musician made ​​known to a wide audience.

Discography

September 15 Mercury Records Victor Talking Machine Company Bethlehem Records Lush Life (song) Roost Records Impulse! Records Will Friedwald Discogs Integrated Authority File
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