Arthur Edgehill
Arthur Edgehill | |
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Birth name | Arthur Edghill |
Born |
Brooklyn, New York, United States | July 21, 1926
Genres | Jazz, hard bop |
Occupation(s) | Drummer |
Instruments | Drums |
Years active | 1948-1970s |
Arthur Edgehill (b. Brooklyn, N.Y., 21 July 1926[1]) (originally spelt Edghill)[2] is a hard bop jazz drummer active in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, appearing on several of the Prestige recordings recorded at the successive Van Gelder Studios, in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, including Mal Waldron’s debut album, Mal-1 (1956), but especially with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Shirley Scott.
His first professional work was touring with Mercer Ellington in 1948, and in 1953 he toured with Ben Webster.[3] He played with Kenny Dorham's Jazz Prophets[3] in 1956 and with Gigi Gryce and in 1957-58 toured with Dinah Washington.[2]
He was a member of Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ quartet with George Duvivier and/or Wendell Marshall, and Shirley Scott, and appears on several of Scott’s recordings, including her debut album, Great Scott! (1958), as well as on the classic Very Saxy (1959), featuring Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, and Arnett Cobb on tenors, an album recorded shortly after Blow Arnett, Blow (1959).
As well as appearing on recordings with the above lineups, he also played in quartets led by Horace Silver, including one featuring Cecil Payne, in 1954,[4] and at Minton's with Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins, a lineup that also jammed on one occasion with Charlie Parker and Annie Laurie.[5]
Discography
With Little Jimmy Scott
- If You Only Knew (1955)
With Kenny Dorham
With Mal Waldron
- Mal-1 (1956)
- Smokin' (1958)
- The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook (1958)
- Jaws (1958)
- Jaws in Orbit (1959)
- Bacalao (1959)
- Moodsville Volume 4 (1960)
- Misty (1963)
With Shirley Scott
- Great Scott! (1958)
- Scottie (1958)
- Shirley's Sounds (recorded 1958, released 1961)
- Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver (1959)
- Scottie Plays the Duke (1959)
- Soul Searching (1959)
- Moodsville Volume 5 (1960)
- Like Cozy (1960)
- Soul Sister (1960)
- Now's the Time (recorded 1958-1964, released 1967)
- Workin' (1967)
- Stompin' (1967)
With Mildred Anderson
- Person to Person (1960)
With David Amram
- No More Walls (1971)
References
- ↑ Feather, Leonard G. (1960) The encyclopedia of jazz, p. 189. Horizon Press At Google Books. Retrieved 28th April 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Feather, Leonard G. (1994). "Edghill, Arthur". In Kernfeld, Barry. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (Single vol. 1st ed.). London: The Macmillan Press. p. 324. ISBN 0-312-11357-9.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chadbourne, Eugene allmusic. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ Shipton, Alyn (2001) A new history of jazz, p. 672. Continuum At Google Books. Retrieved 28th April 2013.
- ↑ Silver, Horace & Pastras, Philip (2006) Let's get to the nitty gritty: the autobiography of Horace Silver. University of California Press At Google Books. Retrieved 28th April 2013.
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