Streamline Ewing

Streamline Ewing ( born January 19, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas; † 1 February 2002 in Pasadena, California; bourgeois John Richard Ewing ) was an American jazz trombonist.

John Richard, called " Streamline" Ewing attended high school in Los Angeles and began his musical career with Gene Coy. Ewing became famous when he was a member of the band by Horace Henderson in 1938. After that, he toured with Earl Hines and worked 1938-1942 at its recordings with. You can hear Ewing in titles such as " Grand Terace Shuffle", "Yellow Fire", "XYZ ", " Windy City Jive " and " Swinin 'on C ". In the early 1940s he worked for a short time in the big bands of Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford then in ( 1943-45 ), Cab Calloway (1946 and again in 1949), Jay McShann (1948 ), Cootie Williams ( 1950), Louis Jordan and Earl Bostic.

The early 1950s, he moved to California and played at George Jenkins, as well as a studio musician to with Bobby Bryant, Sam Cooke, Dr. John ( Dr. John's Gumbo, 1972), BB King, Papa John Creach, T-Bone Walker and Gerald Wilson. From 1956 he worked at Teddy Buckner; the two still occasionally played together in the 1980s. Ewing, in 1958 and 1960 respectively opportunity own band, The Streamliners together. In 1962 he again went with Horace Henderson on tour; 1967 Rex Stewart. In the late 1960s he was a member of the formation Young Men of New Orleans. 1985 and 1990 he went with Johnny Otis in Europe or Japan tour in 1983 he played in the Eagle Brass Band. In his later years he worked as a freelance musician; he was involved in two Willy DeVille albums, Backstreets of Desire (1992) and Big Easy Fantasy (1995).