Tadd Dameron

Tadd (Tad) Dameron is a pianist, type-setter and arranger born on February 21st, 1917 with Clevelandet deceased on March 8th, 1965 in New York.

Biography

He wrote arrangements for Jimmie Lunceford and Sarah Vaughan and worked with Dizzy Gillespie.

Prolific type-setter of the period be-bop having a pronounced melody direction combined with an innovative and subtle harmonic writing, a good number of its creations became the traditional ones. Let us quote Our Delight, Hot House, Good Bait, Lady Bird and the ballade If you Could See Me Now.

Talented Orchestrator it is able to write for great formations.

In 1949, it occurs as Co-leader with Miles Davis with the jazz festival of Paris.

It directs its own training of 1953 to 1958. Then it fills the musical position of director for Bull Moose Jackson, high-speed motorboat of the Rhythm and blues ; in this station it influences Benny Golson, which is member of the orchestra.

Unfortunately its career was started by its leaning for drug. It is stopped for possession of opiates and fact of the prison.

Discography

  • The Magic Touch off Tadd Dameron - Tadd Dameron & His Orchestrated

  • Tadd Dameron 1947-1949

  • Fontainebleau

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