Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (* November 4, 1922 in Hamburg, Missouri, † December 30, 2001 in Evergreen, Colorado) was an American Dixieland jazz pianist.

Life and work

After he had appeared at the beginning of his career only locally in Missouri, he later played first in Eddie Condon's club in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1956 he moved to the West Coast of the United States to San Francisco, where he appeared with Bob Scobey 's Dixieland Band and various records recorded. From the 1960s on, he worked mostly as a solo artist, but also joined with The World's Greatest Jazz Band, which he co-founded in 1968. He was known as Stridepianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. During his many records had, inter alia, Ruby Braff, Milt Hinton, Al Hall, Bob Wilber, Jay McShann, Gus Johnson, Marty Grosz, Frank Capp and Butch Miles with.

Sutton came into Germany with Reimer von Essen and Trevor Richards (Album Easter Parade, 1999) and toured frequently throughout Australia; shortly before his death, the live album At Bob Barnard's Jazz Party in 1999 there was recorded. Sutton died in 2001 and the following year was a member of the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Oh Baby ( Sackville, 1949-53 ) solo
  • Quartet with Ruby Braff ( Storyville, 1968)
  • Trio and Quartet ( Storyville, 1977)
  • In Concert ( Nif Nuf, 1981)
  • Partners in Crime ( Sackville, 1983)
  • At Café des Copains ( Sackville, 1983-87 )
  • More at Café des Copains ( Sackville, 1988/89)
  • It's So Nice It Must be Illegal ( Nagel Heyer, 1988)
  • Eye Opener ( Solo Type, 1990) solo
  • Mybeck Recital Hall, Vol 30 ( Concord, 1993)
  • A Pair of Kings ( Arbors, 2000)

Weblink

  • Obituary in The Independent
  • Jazz Pianist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1922
  • Died in 2001
  • Man
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