Morey Feld

Morey Field ( born August 15, 1915 in Cleveland ( Ohio), † March 28 1971 in Bow Mar, Colorado) was an American drummer of Dixieland jazz and swing.

Life and work

Field taught himself to play the drums from 1933 self-taught and became in 1936 a member of the band of Ben Pollack. He then worked at Joe Haymes, with Bud Freeman and the band Summa Cum Laudae (1940 ), Benny Goodman (1943 to 1945) to play in 1946 when Eddie Condon. He also appeared with Billy Butterfield, Peanuts Hucko and Bobby Hackett. Between 1955 and 1960 he worked for the American Broadcasting Company in management. In the 1960s, he returned to the scene back, played back at Condon, led his own bands and opened a drum school. In 1968 he moved to California before he again played in Denver with Hucko; also he was in the same year of the founding drummer of the World's Greatest Jazz Band. Field which commenced with Buddy Clark (1939 ), Sarah Vaughn (1944 ), Slam Stewart ( 1945), Teddy Wilson ( 1945), Ella Fitzgerald, Red Norvo and Wild Bill Davison, died in a house fire.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Jazz Goes Broadway ( Kapp Records)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Carlo Bohländer: Reclam Jazz Guide Stuttgart, Reclam 1970
  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
  • Jazz drummer
  • American musician
  • Born in 1915
  • Died in 1971
  • Man
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