Appendix: Ben Webster's Musical Activities
Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster Frank Büchmann-Møller http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=86405 The University of Michigan Press, 2006 APPENDIX: BEN WEBSTER’S MUSICAL ACTIVITIES List of jobs, engagements, and recording sessions Information listed here is not complete, of course. It is derived from various sources, among others Down Beat, New Amsterdam News, Chicago Defender, Pitts- burgh Courier, Metronome, Jazz Journal, Jazz Monthly, Melody Maker, Jazz Maga- zine (Paris), Jazz Podium, Orkester Journalen, Variety, Billboard, local newspapers, programs from Jazzhus Montmartre (Copenhagen), and also from interviews. To fill the gaps I borrowed some data from Walter C. Allen, Hendersonia (Allen, 1973), Count Basie and Albert Murray, Good Morning Blues (Random House, 1985), Klaus Stratemann, Duke Ellington: Day by Day and Film by Film (JazzMedia, 1992) sup- plemented with new research by Kenneth R. Steiner, and Franz Hoffmann’s most helpful compilations of Jazz Advertised in the Negro Press, 1910-1967 (Hoffmann, 1980–89) and Jazz Reviewed, 1910–50 (Hoffmann, 1995). “Also” in the date column means that Webster, in addition to the given range of dates, also played another activity, e.g., a recording session. Ca. 1925–27 Odd jobs in Kansas City with his own small band, Rooster Ben and His Little Red Hens, and playing piano in clubs and silent movie theaters Ca. 1927–28 Brethro Nelson and His Orchestra Tours through Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas Ca. 1928–29 Dutch Campbell and His Sugar Stompers Tours through Texas Winter–spring 1929 Amarillo, TX, playing piano in a silent movie theater Summer–autumn 1929 Billy Young and His Family Band Summer Albuquerque, NM Plays alto saxophone Autumn Phoenix, AZ East Lake Park Autumn 1929–late 1930 Gene Coy and His Original Black Aces Oklahoma City, OK, Market Square Garden Shifts to tenor saxophone Late 1930–Feb.
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