Mousey Alexander

" Mousey " or " Mousie " Alexander ( born June 19, 1922 in Gary, Indiana as Elmer Alexander, † October 9, 1988 in Orlando, Florida) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist.

Life and work

Alexander studied at the Ray Knapp School in Chicago and in New York took private lessons with Sam Ulano. In the late 1940s he began with Jimmy McPartland to work and looked at his 1949 78ern recorded for Prestige Records with ( " Daughter Of Sister Kate ," " Royal Garden Blues "). In the early 1950s he moved to the tape of his wife Marian McPartland, at the recordings for Savoy Records ( 1952) he played. Mid-1950s, he recorded with the Sauter - Finegan Orchestra, besides also a small ensemble with guitarist Johnny Smith (1955) and Charlie Ventura (1957).

In 1956 he accompanied Benny Goodman on a Far East tour; in the late 1950s he often worked with musicians such as Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon. He is also on recordings of Buck Clayton / Buddy Tate Quintet ( Buck & Buddy, Kansas City Nights, 1960), Nat Pierce ( The Ballad of Jazz Street, 1960), as a percussionist with Gene Krupa American Bolero (1961 ), Ralph Sutton ( 1968), the Lee Konitz / Sal Mosca Quartet ( Spirits, 1971), the Zoot Sims / Jimmy Rowles Quartet ( If I'm Lucky to listen to 1977),

1980 finished a stroke his musical career. A remarkable document of his skills is a twenty-five minute recording in the film series Good Years of Jazz from 1962, in which he is heard with Georgie Auld and Doc Severinsen, led by guitarist Mike Bryan.