Tiny Parham

Hartzell Strathdene " Tiny" Parham ( born February 25, 1900 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, † April 4, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) was an American jazz pianist, arranger and bandleader of the New Orleans Jazz. From the late 1920s there is some jazz historically important recordings of Parham, who was a major arranger at that time. His sound and his arrangements remember, so Wolf Kampmann, to Duke Ellington.

Life and work

Parham grew up in Kansas City. Early in his career, he toured with vaudeville shows and territory bands in the Southwest of the U.S., then in 1925 he moved to Chicago. There he had involvement in the Dreamland Café and at the Apollo Theatre and took plates with Johnny Dodds, which originated 1927-1930 ( Loveless Love, Nineteenth Street Blues ). In addition, Parham held various blues singers and had its own formation with clarinetist Omer Simeon, the cornet player "Kid" Punch Miller and bassist Milt Hinton. When shooting with Parham's Forty Five is Kid Ory as soloist (A Little Bit Closer ).

After 1930, Parham worked in theaters and nightclubs as a pianist and organist; His last recordings were made in 1940.