Webster Young
Webster English Young ( born December 3, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina, † December 13, 2003 in Vancouver, Washington ) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
Young named the 1943 film adaptation of the musical resultant Cabin in the Sky was the first inspiration to seriously deal with music. According to his own admission, he should have convinced Louis Armstrong to give him lessons on the trumpet before he received a formal music education in the narrow sense in the context of various marching bands and brass band.
As in the second half of the 1940s began to be known to the bebop, the modern jazz to its origin New York City out to Young took the game Dizzy Gillespie as a model. His actual career as a professional musician began after the end of his military service, which he performed during the Korean War. After his return to the United States Young toured first with various jazz and rhythm and blues bands ( including the Hampton Hawes and Lloyd Price ) before he settled, on the advice of Miles Davis in New York.
In the metropolis of jazz he soon played with experienced musicians like Lester Young (with whom he was not related), Bud Powell, Jackie McLean and John Coltrane. The year 1957 marks a climax in Webster Young's career, as being a large part of the images grossed in its course, by which his name until now has been present in the history of jazz. These include the " blowing sessions" from which albums like McLean Makin 'the Changes, Ray Draper's tuba sounds and Coltrane Interplay for Two Trumpets and Two Tenors were compiled later. As a tribute to the singer Billie Holiday For Lady was conceived; Young is here, among others, Paul Quinichette to hear Mal Waldron and Ed Thigpen.
A similar tribute album titled Webster Young Plays The Miles Davis Songbook from 1961 is considered the most successful artistic recording of the trumpeter, who barely grossed plates in the subsequent period. On stage he was against it initially continued active, he as already in the early years of his career was to hear both R & B acts such as Ike and Tina Turner as well as with jazz greats such as Dexter Gordon,, .
In 1965, Young returned to Washington, DC, where he had spent most of his youth. Here he was mainly active in music education so he taught, for example, at the University of the District of Columbia and directed the DC Music Center Jazz Workshop Band. In the 1980s, he interrupted his teaching career at times to complete with the Dutch pianist Rein de Graaff a tour of various European countries.
In 2002, Young he finally retired from the music world and moved to Portland ( Oregon). The following year he died, a few days after his 71st birthday, a brain tumor.