Trudy Pitts
Trudy Pitts Carney ( born 1933 in Philadelphia, † December 19, 2010 ibid ) was an American organist and pianist of the soul-jazz.
Biography
Pitts graduated from the Philadelphia Musical Academy, Temple University and Julliard School; her career she began as a solo pianist and singer in her hometown, then as assistant to the pianist in the show Raisin '. After the end of the tour of the musical she encouraged her future husband Bill " Mr. C" Carney ( born 1925 ) - he was a drummer and bandleader of the Hi -Tones to develop their repertoire. Around 1958, she starred in Carney's band, which had previously belonged also Shirley Scott, Tootie Heath and John Coltrane. With her husband and two children, she went in the next few years on numerous tours; they also played with Ben Webster, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. In the late 1960s she took four albums under his own name for Prestige Records, on which, among other things Willis Jackson, Pat Martino, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk participated. She played among others Pop cover versions of Herb Alpert's "The Spanish Flea ," " Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and " A Whiter Shade of Pale ". They also accompanied Pat Martino on his Prestige album El Hombre (1967) and Roland Kirk on his albums The Return of the 5000 Lb Man ( 1976), Other Folks ' Music (1976) and Kirkatron (1977). In the early 1970s they were the tours in order to care more about her family, but still came as a pianist in local theaters and restaurants. In the 2000s, she laid before more albums and performed it on the eleventh Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival in Washington, DC, in 2008 at the Kennedy Center.