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Biography. Dameron, Mary Lou Williams, and Dizzy Gillespie in Williams's apartment, c. June 1946. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, [1] Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players. [2]
Biography. Tadley Ewing Peake “Tadd” Dameron (pianist, composer, arranger) was born on February 21, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio and passed away on March 8, 1965 at the age of 48. Dameron grew up with music all around him, his mother first taught him to play piano, “not to read, but by memory.”.
Tadd Dameron, Mary Lou Williams i Dizzy Gillespie, 1946 Tadd Dameron, 1947 Tadd Dameron i Fats Navarro, 1947. Tadd Dameron, właśc.Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (ur.21 lutego 1917 w Cleveland, zm. 8 marca 1965 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański pianista, aranżer i kompozytor jazzowy.Był pierwszym aranżerem, który przeniósł nowatorskie koncepcje stylu bebop na grunt instrumentacji orkiestrowej.
Tadd Dameron (born February 21, 1917, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died March 8, 1965, New York, New York) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, especially noted during the bop era for the melodic beauty and warmth of the songs he composed.
Tadd Dameron is hailed by critics as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of the era spanning swing and bebop. Dameron began arranging for swing bands in 1938, but he was absorbing the new music of the beboppers and was the first to inject these new ideas into big band arrangements.
28 wrz 2024 · Dameron is a much underrated performer who stands at the fulcrum of modern Jazz, midway between Swing and Bebop. Combining the broad-brush arrangements of the big band and the advanced harmonic language of bop, his own recordings are difficult to date blind.
9 mar 2013 · Dameron was a composer and pianist who fused the sophisticated arrangements of the Big Band era with bebop's complex harmonies. A new biography shines a light on the too-brief life of the man...
