Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Lutz Templin was born Ludwig Templin on June 18, 1901 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He started out playing violin and saxophone, and studied composition before finding work playing and arranging in dance ensembles.
From 1941 to 1949 Lutz led a big band in Germany which recorded extensively and was broadcast on German radio. This ensemble also recorded as Charlie and his Orchestra, doing arrangements of American jazz hits with propagandistic lyrics inserted. These were broadcast on Nazi radio stations and whether he was forced to do so is unknown.
Templin’s ensemble operated out of Berlin until 1943, when Allied bombing resulted in their relocation to Stuttgart. He remained there after the war and continued performing there for most of the rest of his life. Bandleader Lutz Templin passed away on March 7, 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany.
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Remaining vigilant as the city and country are open to unmasking and an honor system that I don’t trust, this week I’m pulling out the seventh album by pianist Mulgrew Miller titled From Day To Day.
The trio album was recorded on March 14~15, 1990 at BMG Studios in New York City. It was released the same year on Landmark Records. It was produced by Orrin Keepnews and engineered by Paul Goodman.
Track List | 55:00- La Chambre ~ 7:35
- What A Diff’rence A Day Made ~ 8:08
- Four ~ 7:53
- From Day To Day ~ 7:26
- Playthang ~ 7:01
- Farewell To Dogma ~ 5:06
- One Notch Up ~ 4:50
- More Than You Know ~ 6:15
- Mulgrew Miller ~ piano
- Robert Hurst ~ double bass
- Kenny Washington ~ drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Sing Miller was born James Edward Miller on June 17, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started his career as a singer with the Harmonizing Browns Quartet. His main instrument was banjo until late in the 1920s, when he moved to piano. He worked as a freelance musician with the Percy Humphrey band during the 1930s.
After serving in the military during World War II, he was in a band led by drummer Earl Foster from 1945 to 1961. He became a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans in the 1960s. He played in that band with Polo Barnes, Kid Sheik, Jim Robinson, and Kid Thomas Valentine.
His rare performances as a solo act included 1979 and 1981 when he went on tour in Europe. He recorded one album for Dixie Records in 1972 and one for Smoky Mary in 1978.
Pianist Sing Miller, who was a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, passed away on May 18, 1990.
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Marilyn Montez Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 16, 1930. Her vocal style was similar to that of Billie Holiday’s, at twenty-six she recorded her only solo album as a leader in 1957 on the Bethlehem label titled Moody Marilyn Moore. With Jackie Paris she recorde another album titled Oh, Captain.
She was the first wife of saxophonist Al Cohn, who played on Moody Marilyn Moore, and the mother of guitarist Joe Coh. After she and Cohn separated and later divorced, Moore was left to raise her family and never recorded again.
Singer Marilyn Moore, whose short career was limited to activity during the 1950s, passed away on March 19, 1992 at the age of 61 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Sid Phillips was born Isador Simon Phillips on June 14, 1907 in London, England into a Jewish family. He learned violin and piano as a child, and played reeds in his teens as a member of his brother’s European band. He got his start in the music business as a publisher and director for Edison Bell.
In 1930, Phillips began writing arrangements for Bert Ambrose, and joined Ambrose’s ensemble in 1933, remaining there until 1937. Towards the end of the decade he was playing in the United States on radio and freelancing in clubs.
During World War II, Sid served in the Royal Air Force, then put together his own quartet in 1946 and wrote several pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He led a Dixieland jazz band of his own formation from 1949, and his sidemen variously included George Shearing, Colin Bailey, Tommy Whittle, and Kenny Ball.
Phillips’s first recordings under his own name were made in 1928. In 1937 through 1938, a number of his recordings were issued in the United States, through a contract he signed with Irving Mills and issued on Mills’ Variety label, as well as Vocalion, Brunswick and Columbia labels, though most of his recordings were made in England.
Clarinetist, arranger and bandleader Sid Phillips, who continued to record as a leader well into the 1970s, passed away on May 23, 1973 at aged 65 in Chertsey, Surrey, England.
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