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Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron (February 21, 1917 & ndash; March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer , arranger and pianist . Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement,cite book |title='Round About Midnight: A Portrait of Miles Davis |last=Nisenson |first=Eric |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1996 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location= |isbn=0-306-80684-3 |page=65 |pages= |url= |accessdate= while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the "definitive arranger/composer of the bop era ".Yanow, Scott (2008) Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6366/biography|pure_url=yes "Tadd Dameron biography", AllMusic .
Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland , Ohio , Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing (genre)|swing and hard bop players. The Band (music)|bands he arranged for included those of Count Basie , Artie Shaw , Jimmie Lunceford , Dizzy Gillespie , Billy Eckstine , and Sarah Vaughan . He and lyricist Carl Sigman wrote " If You Could See Me Now (song)|If You Could See Me Now " for Sarah Vaughan and it became one of her first signature songs. According to the composer, his greatest influences were George Gershwin and Duke Ellington .cite book| last = Rosenthal| first = David, H.| title = Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = New York| isbn = 0-19-505869-0
In the late 1940s, Dameron wrote arrangements for the big band of Dizzy Gillespie , who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony at Carnegie Hall in 1948. Also in 1948, Dameron led his own group in New York, which included Fats Navarro ; the following year he was at the Paris Jazz Fair with Miles Davis . From 1961 he scored for recordings by Milt Jackson , Sonny Stitt , and Blue Mitchell .Harrison, Max. "Dameron, Tadd." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 2 Apr. 2011 < http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/07122>
He also arranged and played for rhythm and blues musician Bull Moose Jackson . Also playing for Jackson at the time was Benny Golson , who also was to become a jazz composer; Golson has said Dameron was the most important influence on his writing. Dameron composed several bop jazz standard|standards , including " Hot House (composition)|Hot House ", "Our Delight", "Good Bait" (composed for Count Basie ), and "Lady Bird". His bands featured leading players such as Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon , Sonny Rollins , and Wardell Gray .
After forming another group of his own with Clifford Brown in 1953, Dameron developed an Substance use disorder|addiction to narcotics toward the end of his career. He served time (1959–1961) in federal prison in Lexington, KY . Dameron suffered from cancer and had several heart myocardial infarction|attacks before he died at the age of 48 of cancer in 1965.
Legacy
Dameron has been the subject of many tributes since his death:
In the 1980s, Philly Joe Jones , drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet , and trumpeter Don Sickler founded Dameronia , a tribute band to Dameron. http://books.google.es/books? id=I5wrGL-a-Q8C& pg=RA5-PT23& lpg=RA5-PT23& dq=%22ira+coleman%22+AND+bass& source=bl& ots=qwsmOIMpeI& sig=QkscPLAP8IGK4BoLm2rVBMLmEDA& hl=es& ei=HTuQSt3fG8aMjAellrDnDQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=4#v=snippet& q=don%20sickler& f=false Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby and Priestley, Brian Rough Guide to Jazz Rough Guides, 2004 ISBN 1-84353-256-5, ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9 "Don Sickler" at Google Books
Continuum : Mad About Tadd: The Music of Tadd Dameron is an album released in 1982 by a group consisting of Slide Hampton , Jimmy Heath , Ron Carter , Art Taylor , Kenny Barron . The LP has since been reissued on CD.
In 1975, jazz pianist Barry Harris recorded Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron for Xanadu Records .
In 2007, pianist Richard "Tardo" Hammer recorded "Look Stop and Listen: The Music of Tadd Dameron" for Sharp Nine Records.
Discography
As leader or co-leader
1948: The Dameron Band (Featuring Fats Navarro) (Blue Note)
1949: Anthropology (Spotlite)
1949: Cool Boppin´ (Fresh Sound) with Miles Davis, Kai Winding , Sahib Shihab , Kenny Clarke
1949: The Miles Davis and Dameron Quartet in Paris - Festival International du Jazz, May 1949 ( Columbia Records|Columbia ; issued on LP, 1977)
Persondata | NAME = Dameron, Tadd | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = February 21, 1917 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = March 8, 1965 | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Dameron, Tadd Category:1917 births Category:1965 deaths Category:African American pianists Category:American jazz composers Category:American jazz pianists Category:American music arrangers Category:Blue Note Records artists Category:Musicians from Ohio
