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Blanton left university in 1938 to play full-time in St Louis with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra. [2]: 121 Blanton joined Duke Ellington's band in October 1939 when the Ellington Orchestra came to St. Louis for a residence and the band became enamored with Blanton's playing at local late-night jam sessions. Ellington offered Blanton the job the ...
The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington band); Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link from the swing era to bebop.
Ellington put Blanton front-and-center on the bandstand nightly, unheard of for a bassist at the time, together with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, thus this era of Ellington's ensemble is referred to the Blanton–Webster band. Bassist Jimmy Blanton was only with the Ellington orchestra for two years, leaving in 1941 due to tuberculosis, and ...
This One's for Blanton! is a studio album by the American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, duetting with Ray Brown, recorded in December 1972 and released on the Pablo label. [1] The title refers to early Duke Ellington collaborator and influential yet short-lived double bass player Jimmy Blanton .
The Blanton–Webster Band is a compilation album that combines the master takes of all the recordings by Duke Ellington's Orchestra during the years of 1940 to 1942, involving bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.
Wendell Marshall (October 24, 1920 – February 6, 2002) was an American jazz double-bassist.. Marshall was Jimmy Blanton's cousin. He studied at Lincoln University, then served in the Army during World War II.
Joining the Navy in September 1942 were James Cannady, guitarist and arranger for Jeter-Pilars; Roy Torian, a trombonist who had been treasurer of the Musicians Equity Association in St. Louis, the "race sub-local of the American Federation of Musicians"; Merrill Tarrant, trumpet; Sykes Smith, trumpet; and Charles Pillars, saxophone, who with ...
The Palladium in 2013. The Palladium is a disused and endangered historic building in the Grand Center arts district of St. Louis, Missouri.It is especially noted as the site of the Plantation Club, a 1940s and early 1950s dance club where famous African-American musicians performed.