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There Are Two Artists Named Bill Coleman #1 - Bill Coleman William Johnson Coleman Paris Kentucky August 4 1904 – August 24 1981 Toulouse France Was A Jazz Trumpeter. In 1909 His Family Moved From Kentucky To Cincinnati. His First Musical Explorations Were On Clarinet And C Melody Saxophone But He Eventually Settled On Trumpet. As A Young Man He Worked As A Messenger For The Western Union Telegraph Company. He Studied With Cincinnati Trumpeter Theodore Carpenter And Played In An Amateur Band Led By Trombonist J.C. Higgenbotham. He Began Professional Work In Cincinnati With Bands Led By Clarence Paige And Wesley Helvey Both Bands His Teacher Carpenter Worked In Then With Lloyd And Cecil Scott. In December 1927 He Traveled With The Scott Brothers To New York City And Continued To Work With Them Until The Late Summer Of 1929 When He Joined The Orchestra Of Pianist Luis Russell. His First Recording Session Was With Russell On September 6 1929 And He Solos On The Tune "Feelin' The Spirit." By December 1929 He Had Left Russell Partly Due To The Majority Of The Solo Work Going To Section Mate Henry "Red" Allen But Would Rejoin The Band On Two More Occasions During 1931-32.
He Rejoined The Scott Brothers Then Known As Cecil Scott's Bright Boys In Late 1929 Participating In A Victor Recording Session And Continued To Work With Them Through The Early Part Of 1930. He Worked With Various New York Based Bands Until Rejoining Luis Russell In 1931.
His First Trip To Europe Was With The Band Of Lucky Millinder From June Until October 1933 After Which He Returned To New York To Work With Bandleaders Benny Carter And Teddy Hill Whom He Recorded With In Early 1935. While With The Hill Band He Participated In A Freelance Recording Session With Pianist Fats Waller Waxing A Number Of Memorable Sides.
Coleman Returned To Cincinnati Briefly In The Summer Of 1935 Then Headed To Europe Playing A Residency In Paris With Entertainer/vocalist Freddy Taylor Whom He Had Worked With In The Lucky Millinder Band . While In Paris He Recorded With Guitarist Django Reinhardt And Made Several Freelance Sessions Under His Own Name. In Late 1936 He Traveled To Bombay India Playing With Leon Abbey's Orchestra Then Back To Paris In April 1937 Joining The Band Led By American-Born Saxophonist William T. Lewis The Band Known As Willie Lewis And His Entertainers .
After A Sojourn To Cairo Egypt Coleman Returned To The U.S. In March 1940 And Worked Throughout The 1940s With A Variety Of Top Groups Including Bands Led By Benny Carter 1940 Teddy Wilson 1940-41 Andy Kirk 1941-42 Ellis Larkins 1943 Mary Lou Williams 1944 John Kirby 1945 Sy Oliver 1946-47 And Billy Kyle 1947-48 . During This Same Time Coleman Participated In Many Recording Sessions With Top Jazz Stars Such As Lester Young Billie Holiday And Coleman Hawkins.
He Returned To France In 1948 And Spent The Rest Of His Life There In Part Due To Racial Segregation. Like Many American Musicians He Felt He Received The Recognition He Deserved From European Audiences And During The Decades He Lived In France He Traveled And Performed In Clubs And Concert Venues All Over Europe. In 1978 He Performed At The First Jazz In Marciac Festival Along With Tenor Saxophonist Guy Lafitte Later Becoming An Honorary President Of The Festival Organization.
In 1974 He Received The Ordre National Du Mérite.
From His First Solo On Record With The Luis Russell Orchestra Coleman's Playing Exhibited A Lighter Sound More Akin To Jabbo Smith Than Louis Armstrong Yet His Phrasing Is More In The Armstrong Vein Than That Of Smith. In Many Respects His Playing Was Stylistically Related To The Playing By Other Swing Era Trumpeters Such As Roy Eldridge And Buck Clayton. #2 - Bill Coleman Is A Musician From Cork Ireland Who Released His Debut Album "I'll Tear My Own Walls Down" In February Of 2007. His Music Has Been Compared Rightly Or Wrongly To Elvis Costello And The Cure But What Definitely Distinguishes Him From The Hordes Of Talented Young Men With Guitars Are His Glorious Sense Of Melody And Heartfelt But Never Saccharine Vocals. Http //www.Bcoleman.Com/
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There Are Two Artists Named Bill Coleman #1 - Bill Coleman William Johnson Coleman Paris Kentucky August 4 1904 – August 24 1981 Toulouse France Was A Jazz Trumpeter. In 1909 His Family Moved From Kentucky To Cincinnati. His First Musical Explorations Were On Clarinet And C Melody Saxophone But He Eventually Settled On Trumpet. As A Young Man He Worked As A Messenger For The Western Union Telegraph Company. He Studied With Cincinnati Trumpeter Theodore Carpenter And Played In An Amateur Band Led By Trombonist J.C. Higgenbotham. He Began Professional Work In Cincinnati With Bands Led By Clarence Paige And Wesley Helvey Both Bands His Teacher Carpenter Worked In Then With Lloyd And Cecil Scott. In December 1927 He Traveled With The Scott Brothers To New York City And Continued To Work With Them Until The Late Summer Of 1929 When He Joined The Orchestra Of Pianist Luis Russell. His First Recording Session Was With Russell On September 6 1929 And He Solos On The Tune "Feelin' The Spirit." By December 1929 He Had Left Russell Partly Due To The Majority Of The Solo Work Going To Section Mate Henry "Red" Allen But Would Rejoin The Band On Two More Occasions During 1931-32.
He Rejoined The Scott Brothers Then Known As Cecil Scott's Bright Boys In Late 1929 Participating In A Victor Recording Session And Continued To Work With Them Through The Early Part Of 1930. He Worked With Various New York Based Bands Until Rejoining Luis Russell In 1931.
His First Trip To Europe Was With The Band Of Lucky Millinder From June Until October 1933 After Which He Returned To New York To Work With Bandleaders Benny Carter And Teddy Hill Whom He Recorded With In Early 1935. While With The Hill Band He Participated In A Freelance Recording Session With Pianist Fats Waller Waxing A Number Of Memorable Sides.
Coleman Returned To Cincinnati Briefly In The Summer Of 1935 Then Headed To Europe Playing A Residency In Paris With Entertainer/vocalist Freddy Taylor Whom He Had Worked With In The Lucky Millinder Band . While In Paris He Recorded With Guitarist Django Reinhardt And Made Several Freelance Sessions Under His Own Name. In Late 1936 He Traveled To Bombay India Playing With Leon Abbey's Orchestra Then Back To Paris In April 1937 Joining The Band Led By American-Born Saxophonist William T. Lewis The Band Known As Willie Lewis And His Entertainers .
After A Sojourn To Cairo Egypt Coleman Returned To The U.S. In March 1940 And Worked Throughout The 1940s With A Variety Of Top Groups Including Bands Led By Benny Carter 1940 Teddy Wilson 1940-41 Andy Kirk 1941-42 Ellis Larkins 1943 Mary Lou Williams 1944 John Kirby 1945 Sy Oliver 1946-47 And Billy Kyle 1947-48 . During This Same Time Coleman Participated In Many Recording Sessions With Top Jazz Stars Such As Lester Young Billie Holiday And Coleman Hawkins.
He Returned To France In 1948 And Spent The Rest Of His Life There In Part Due To Racial Segregation. Like Many American Musicians He Felt He Received The Recognition He Deserved From European Audiences And During The Decades He Lived In France He Traveled And Performed In Clubs And Concert Venues All Over Europe. In 1978 He Performed At The First Jazz In Marciac Festival Along With Tenor Saxophonist Guy Lafitte Later Becoming An Honorary President Of The Festival Organization.
In 1974 He Received The Ordre National Du Mérite.
From His First Solo On Record With The Luis Russell Orchestra Coleman's Playing Exhibited A Lighter Sound More Akin To Jabbo Smith Than Louis Armstrong Yet His Phrasing Is More In The Armstrong Vein Than That Of Smith. In Many Respects His Playing Was Stylistically Related To The Playing By Other Swing Era Trumpeters Such As Roy Eldridge And Buck Clayton. #2 - Bill Coleman Is A Musician From Cork Ireland Who Released His Debut Album "I'll Tear My Own Walls Down" In February Of 2007. His Music Has Been Compared Rightly Or Wrongly To Elvis Costello And The Cure But What Definitely Distinguishes Him From The Hordes Of Talented Young Men With Guitars Are His Glorious Sense Of Melody And Heartfelt But Never Saccharine Vocals. Http //www.Bcoleman.Com/ read less
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He Rejoined The Scott Brothers Then Known As Cecil Scott's Bright Boys In Late 1929 Participating In A Victor Recording Session And Continued To Work With Them Through The Early Part Of 1930. He Worked With Various New York Based Bands Until Rejoining Luis Russell In 1931.
His First Trip To Europe Was With The Band Of Lucky Millinder From June Until October 1933 After Which He Returned To New York To Work With Bandleaders Benny Carter And Teddy Hill Whom He Recorded With In Early 1935. While With The Hill Band He Participated In A Freelance Recording Session With Pianist Fats Waller Waxing A Number Of Memorable Sides.
Coleman Returned To Cincinnati Briefly In The Summer Of 1935 Then Headed To Europe Playing A Residency In Paris With Entertainer/vocalist Freddy Taylor Whom He Had Worked With In The Lucky Millinder Band . While In Paris He Recorded With Guitarist Django Reinhardt And Made Several Freelance Sessions Under His Own Name. In Late 1936 He Traveled To Bombay India Playing With Leon Abbey's Orchestra Then Back To Paris In April 1937 Joining The Band Led By American-Born Saxophonist William T. Lewis The Band Known As Willie Lewis And His Entertainers .
After A Sojourn To Cairo Egypt Coleman Returned To The U.S. In March 1940 And Worked Throughout The 1940s With A Variety Of Top Groups Including Bands Led By Benny Carter 1940 Teddy Wilson 1940-41 Andy Kirk 1941-42 Ellis Larkins 1943 Mary Lou Williams 1944 John Kirby 1945 Sy Oliver 1946-47 And Billy Kyle 1947-48 . During This Same Time Coleman Participated In Many Recording Sessions With Top Jazz Stars Such As Lester Young Billie Holiday And Coleman Hawkins.
He Returned To France In 1948 And Spent The Rest Of His Life There In Part Due To Racial Segregation. Like Many American Musicians He Felt He Received The Recognition He Deserved From European Audiences And During The Decades He Lived In France He Traveled And Performed In Clubs And Concert Venues All Over Europe. In 1978 He Performed At The First Jazz In Marciac Festival Along With Tenor Saxophonist Guy Lafitte Later Becoming An Honorary President Of The Festival Organization.
In 1974 He Received The Ordre National Du Mérite.
From His First Solo On Record With The Luis Russell Orchestra Coleman's Playing Exhibited A Lighter Sound More Akin To Jabbo Smith Than Louis Armstrong Yet His Phrasing Is More In The Armstrong Vein Than That Of Smith. In Many Respects His Playing Was Stylistically Related To The Playing By Other Swing Era Trumpeters Such As Roy Eldridge And Buck Clayton. #2 - Bill Coleman Is A Musician From Cork Ireland Who Released His Debut Album "I'll Tear My Own Walls Down" In February Of 2007. His Music Has Been Compared Rightly Or Wrongly To Elvis Costello And The Cure But What Definitely Distinguishes Him From The Hordes Of Talented Young Men With Guitars Are His Glorious Sense Of Melody And Heartfelt But Never Saccharine Vocals. Http //www.Bcoleman.Com/ read less
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