Tiny Bradshaw
Myron " Tiny" Bradshaw ( born September 23, 1905 in Youngstown, Ohio, † November 26, 1958 in Cincinnati ) was an American bandleader, singer, arranger and producer (as well as drummer and pianist ) of jazz and rhythm and blues.
Bradshaw studied psychology at Wilberforce University and then sang with Horace Henderson's " Collegians " at college gigs in Ohio. In 1932 he moved to New York City, where he ( " Savoy Bearcats " later ) and the " Mills Blue Rhythm Band " was a drummer in the " Alabamians " by Marion Hardy, the " Charleston Bearcats " and in 1932 sang for Luis Russell. In 1934 he founded his own swing orchestra, which he. Along the lines of Cab Calloway Hits were, inter alia, " Darktown Strutters Ball" and "Shout Sister Shout".
He became famous especially with its rhythm and blues band from 1945, as a continuation of a band that he led during World War II with the U.S. Army. Hits were eg " Well Oh Well " (1950, King), with whom they had great success in the white audience, "Breaking up the house" (1950), "Train - Kept -a -Rollin " from 1952 ( the Johnny Burnette in 1955 and the Yardbirds in 1965 it was announced ) and "soft " (1952). Singer of the band was from 1952, inter alia, Tiny Kennedy. In 1954 he toured with Dinah Washington. In his last years he had increasing health problems, he suffered several strokes. In his band occasionally played Jimmy Coe, Gigi Gryce, Sonny Stitt, Russell Procope, Red Prysock, Shadow Wilson, Charlie Shavers, Billy Kyle, Shad Collins, Gil Fuller, Charlie Fowlkes, Sil Austin and Billy Ford