Juan Tizol

Juan Tizol ( born January 22, 1900 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, † April 23, 1984 in Inglewood, California ) was a jazz musician.

Life and work

Juan Tizol, who was born according to other sources in 1908, played valve trombone. Tizol came in 1920 from San Juan to the U.S. to work with Marie Lucas on Washington Howard Theatre. As this band had lost their regular commitment, Tizol quickly found a new job with Duke Ellington. Although he was never so often highlighted in Ellington from soloist as his colleagues, but helped his valve trombone Ellington to a new sound of his orchestra, as a result of the technical merits of a valve trombone often got the scores of the saxophonists in comparison to the slide trombone Tizol. Likewise, Ellington wrote Tizol - for trombones technically - heavy bodies " on the body." His tone is, therefore, sometimes described as soft and sweet ' sweet '.

Tizol even improvised as well as not, for this was his most important contributions of the players and the section as a composer and arranger (such as Caravan, Perdido ). He can be heard on the Ellington plates with Latin American-style, which he wrote himself or with Ellington as Moonlight Fiesta 1935 Caravan 1937, Pyramid 1938, Conga Brava 1940 Bakiff and Moon Over Cuba 1941.

In 1944 Ellington Tizol left and went sporadically with Woody Herman's band until he was hired by Harry James, with whom he played seven years. 1951 Tizol returned once for a brief period to Ellington. The rest of the time, until his death in 1984 in Los Angeles, Tizol worked for many bandleaders and singers like Frank Sinatra and Nat " King" Cole.

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  • Jazz trombonist
  • Composer (Jazz)
  • American musician
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1984
  • Man
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