Teddy Bunn

Leroy Theodore "Teddy" Bunn ( born May 7, 1910 in Freeport, Long Iceland, New York, † July 20, 1978 in Lancaster, California ) was an American jazz guitarist of swing and rhythm and blues.

Bunn came from a musical family and started as a companion to a calypso singer. He made 1929 recordings with the orchestra of Duke Ellington, as well as with Red Allen and Walter " Fats" Pichon in September. He was in demand as a session musician on recordings. In the early 1930s he took, inter alia, with the singer Spencer Williams, blues singer Victoria Spivey and pianist Clarence Profit and Jelly Roll Morton on. 1929 to 1931 he played with the " Washboard Serenaders " (including recording of " Teddy's Blues" 1930) and from 1932 with the Spirits of Rhythm, with whom he recorded also from 1932 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1941. The Spirits of Rhythm were a band of percussion, stringed instruments such as guitar, bass (temporarily Wellman Braud ), a mandolin -like instrument called a " tiple ", sometimes harmonica and often " Scat " singing vocalists (especially Leo Watson), which in the 1930s and 1940s in the clubs of the 52nd Street (notably the Onyx Club ) quite successfully in New York and Hollywood. He took (especially 1938-1940 ), among others with Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow and Tommy Ladnier (in its last recordings 1938), Hot Lips Page ( Bluebird 1940), John Kirby, Jimmy Noone (1937 ), Johnny Dodds (1938 ) and Trixie Smith, and in 1939 a solo album on Blue Note Records.

Bunn was with Sidney Bechet, Frankie Newton and JC Higginbotham ( as " Port of Harlem Jazzmen " ) one of the first Blue Note artists. In the 1940s he had his own groups as 1944, the " Waves of Rhythm" (and the reissued " Spirits of Rhythm" ) and switched to the electric guitar, first in 1940 in California as a member of the band of Lionel Hampton. In 1946 he took up with Joe Turner. In the 1950s he was mainly in rock and roll and rhythm and blues bands like Edgar Hayes ( as in the 1940s ) and Louis Jordan (1959). In the 1960s his health began after ( heart problems ), and several strokes in 1970, he was partially paralyzed and blind. He lived most recently in San Fernando, California.

Collection

  • The Pete Johnson / Earl Hines / Teddy Bunn Blue Note Sessions (1939-1940) - ( Mosaic - 1987) - 1 LP with Teddy Bunn g & voc
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