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Tommy Ladnier

January 07, 2023

Thomas James Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter. Hugues Panassié – an influential French critic, jazz historian, and renowned exponent of New Orleans jazz – rated Ladnier, sometime on or before 1956, second only to Louis Armstrong.[1][2][3]

Tommy Ladnier
Birth nameThomas James Ladnier
Born(1900-05-28)May 28, 1900
Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedJune 4, 1939(1939-06-04) (aged 39)
Harlem, Manhattan, New York
GenresJazz
Instrument(s)Trumpet
Years active1921–1939

Early years

Ladnier was born in Mandeville, Louisiana – located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, with New Orleans on the opposite shore. Beginning 1914, Ladnier performed in Mandeville's Independence Band at the Dew Drop Dance Hall, led by clarinetist Isidore Frick (né Isidore Fritz; 1890–1940). Trumpeter Bunk Johnson sometimes played with this band and gave young Ladnier lessons. Other members of the band included Louis Fritz (trombone); Joe Fritz (bass); Klebert Cagnolatti (drums) – older brother of trumpeter Cag Cagnolatti (1911–1983); Claybear (sax); Leon Laurent (violin); Buddy Petit (1890–1931) (cornet); Lucien Fritz (drums), Edmond Hall (1901–1967) (clarinet).[4][5]

In 1917, Ladnier moved with his mother to Chicago and worked in the stock yards.

Early career

Ladnier – on February 1, 1920, in Chicago – married Daisy Mathews (née Hazel B. Mathews; 1902–1979).[6] Around 1921, he became a professional musician. Ladnier played for some time in St. Louis with Charlie Creath.[7] Beginning in 1923, he played in Chicago and made many recordings for Paramount Records with pianist Lovie Austin, accompanying blues singers Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, and Alberta Hunter. For some time, Ladnier played with his inspiration, King Oliver. He emulated Oliver's freak style on the solo in "Play that Thing" with Ollie Power's Harmony Syncopators in September 1923.[8] On March 13, 1923, in Chicago, Ladnier's mother, Willie Ladnier (née Willie Williams; abt. 1879–1923) died from a gun shot at a party quarrel.

Career

Ladnier joined pianist Sam Wooding in 1925[7] for an extensive tour (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Russia).[9][10]

Main article: Chocolate Kiddies 1925 European tour

This orchestra recorded in Berlin. He returned to New York and became the hot soloist for the Fletcher Henderson orchestra from 1926–1927.[11] He returned to the Sam Wooding Orchestra for another tour[7] (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, and France), then left in January 1929 to work freelance in Paris. A short tour with dancer Harry Fleming brought him to Spain, where he met dancer Louis Douglas and joined him shortly in November 1929 in Paris, acting as orchestra leader. He again free-lanced in Paris until summer 1930 when he joined the Noble Sissle dance band, performing in Paris and London.

He returned to U.S. at the end of 1930 and stayed with Sissle until January 1932. The Sissle orchestra made some recordings in London and New York. Back in America in 1932, Ladnier and Sidney Bechet formed the New Orleans Feetwarmers. During the Depression, they tried to run a tailor shop in Harlem, but neither was interested in business. Ladnier left New York and played in the east, sometimes giving trumpet lessons. For a year, he lived in Stamford, Connecticut.

In 1938, Hugues Panassié, a French critic and record producer who met Ladnier in Paris in 1930, visited New York. He found Ladnier and recorded the Panassié Sessions with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow.[7] Ladnier and Bechet participated in the first From Spirituals to Swing concert arranged by John Hammond in December 1938.

Ladnier's last studio recording was on February 1, 1939, in New York as a sideman with singer Rosetta Crawford (de) accompanied by James P. Johnson's Hep Cats (Decca 7584). With Johnson (1894–1955) on piano, his sidemen were Teddy Bunn (1909–1978) (guitar); Elmer James (1910–1954) (double bass); and Zutty Singleton (1898–1975) (drums).[12]

Death

At age 39, Ladnier, died unexpectedly of a heart attack June 4, 1939, while staying at Mezz Mezzrow's apartment at 1 West 126th Street[13] – a six-story, 48-unit residential building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.[14][15] It fell upon Mezzrow to take care of Ladnier's belongings and bury him. The memorial service was on Friday, June 9, 1939. Ladnier was buried at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, Staten Island, an African American cemetery.[16] The first burials there were in 1935. Ladnier's grave is No. 58, range 13, Section H. Despite efforts by Mezzrow and friends, the grave remained unmarked for nearly 69 years. Then, grave marker – 30-centimetre (12 in) square, 13-millimetre (0.51 in) thick – was placed on Ladnier's grave. It was carved from Nero Granite with no grain structure and is attached to a concrete base. The marker was engraved by Bob Sprauge and was placed on site by Bob Lang.[17]

References

  1. ^ Guide to Jazz (re: "Ladnier, Tommy"), by Hugues Panassié and Madeleine Gautier (Panassi's wife, since 1949), translated by Desmond Flower (1907–1997), Houghton Mifflin Company (1956), pps. 162–163; OCLC 461481104, ISBN 978-0-8371-6766-4
  2. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (re: "Ladnier, Thomas"), by Eileen Jackson Southern (1920–2002), Greenwood Press (1982), p. 236; LCCN 81-2586; OCLC 902119012; ISBN 0-313-21339-9 (borrowable online via Internet Archive)
    Her sources:
    1. Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians: a Bio-Discography, by Walter C. Allen (1974); OCLC 475144125, 476590380
    2. Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swingstreet, by John Chilton (1970); reprint: Time-Life Records Special Edition (1978); OCLC 78228641
    3. The New Edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz (re: "Ladnier, Thomas"), by Leonard Feather, Horizon Press (1960); OCLC 977415297
      1. Re-print by Bonanza Books (1960), pps. 304–305; OCLC 699625902
    4. The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900–1950 (Vol. 3 of 4), by Roger D. Kinkle (1916–2000), Arlington House Publishers (1974); OCLC 768910192, ISBN 978-0-8700-0229-8
    5. Jazz Records, 1897–1942 (4th rev. and enlarged ed.), by Brian Rust, Arlington House Publishers (1978); OCLC 1039436498, ISBN 978-0-8700-0404-9
      1. "Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra," p. 917
  3. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Barry Dean Kernfeld (ed.), Entry: "Ladnier, Tommy," by Bob Zieff, St. Martin's Press (1996), pps. 670–671; (this is a 1996 one-volume re-print of the 1994 two-volume edition published by Macmillan Press Limited; OCLC 867575922 (1995 re-print), ISBN 0-3336-3231-1, ISBN 0-3121-1357-9
    Zieff's sources:
    1. "Discography of Tommy Ladnier," by Eric F. Keartland, Jazz Forum: Quarterly Review of Jazz and Literature, No. 3, January 1947, p. 24; OCLC 477727289
    2. "Evolution of Jazz" (column), by J. Lee Anderson (né Justus Lee Anderson; 1922–1995), DownBeat; ISSN 0012-5768
      1. Vol. 19, No. 1, January 11, 1952, p. 16
      2. Vol. 19, No. 2, January 25, 1952, p. 11
    3. "Tommy Ladnier: A Biography and Assessment," by Albert J. McCarthy (1920–1987), Jazz Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 7, September 1956, pps. 2–3; OCLC 259926681
    4. "Tommy Ladnier Par Le Disque," by Hugues Panassié, Bulletin du Hot Club de France; ISSN 0755-7272
      1. Issue 139, July–August 1964, p. 3
      2. Issue 140, September 1964, p. 7
    5. "Tommy Ladnier," by Christopher Hillman, Jazz Journal, Vol. 18, No. 8, 1965, p. 6; OCLC 1069305202, ISSN 0021-5651, ISSN 0308-1990
    6. "Tommy Ladnier: The Sensational Cornetist," by Christopher Hillman, Footnote: Dedicated to New Orleans Music; OCLC 760092525, 777070319, 865510320, ISSN 0958-6695
      1. Vol. 13, No. 1, October–November 1981, p. 4
      2. Vol. 13, No. 2, December 1981 – January 1982, p. 4
    7. "Tommy Ladnier: Some Mid-Western Jobs," by Christopher Hillman, Footnote: Dedicated to New Orleans Music, Vol. 13, No. 6, August–September 1982, p. 16
  4. ^ "The Dew Drop Dance Hall," January 10, 2019, Tammany Family (Articles & Photos about St. Tammany Parish (blog of Ron Barthet) (retrieved May 15, 2020)
  5. ^ Oral interview – "Andy Anderson," interviewee (audio), Digest, April 30, 1960 (additional information and corrections by Andy Anderson, June 21, 1973) (re-type); also present: William Russell, Richard B. Allen, Ralph Collins; Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University; courtesy of Music Rising at Tulane, Tulane University (full attribution is not clear)
  6. ^ "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871–1920," FamilySearch (online database), Thomas J. Ladnier and Hazel B. Matthews; married February 1, 1920 (database updated March 10, 2018)
    1. FHL Reference ID: 857476
    2. FHL Genealogical Society Film number 1030721
    3. Digital Folder Number: 4272549
    4. Image Number: 23
    5. IGI Project (Batch) No. M01033-5

    (free access, but registration required)

  7. ^ a b c d All Music Guide to Jazz, (re: "Tommy Ladnier," article entry by Scott Yanow)
    1. Michael Erlewine, executive editor
    2. Vladimir Bogdanov, database design
    3. Chris Woodstra, editor-in-chief
    4. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor
    5. Scott Yanow, senior jazz editor
    (3rd ed.; paperback), Miller Freeman Books (1998), p. 673; OCLC 71402439, 760120946, ISBN 978-0-8793-0530-7
    (online edition) "Tommy Ladnier". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

    Note: Ladnier's place of birth and place of death in the print version differs from other sources.

  8. ^ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
  9. ^ "Tommy Ladnier in Rusland" (in Dutch), by Bo Lindström (born 1939) and Daniel Vernhettes (born 1942), Doctor Jazz Magazine (nl) (Amsterdam), June 2009, p. 16; ISSN 0166-2309
  10. ^ Traveling Blues: The Life and Music of Tommy Ladnier, by Bo Lindström (born 1939) and Daniel Vernhettes (born 1942), Paris: Jazz'Edit (2009); OCLC 471874599, 1010079957
  11. ^ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 278–79. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
  12. ^ Jazz Records, 1897–1942 (4th rev. and enlarged ed.), (re: "Rosetta Crawford"), by Brian Rust, Arlington House Publishers (1978), p. 357; OCLC 1039436498, ISBN 978-0-8700-0404-9
  13. ^ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949," FamilySearch (online database), Thomas Ladnier; DOD: June 4, 1939, Manhattan, New York City (database updated February 10, 2018); original source: New York City Municipal Archives; FHL Microfilm No. 2109536 (free access, but registration required)
  14. ^ "Tom Ladnier, Cornetist, Is Laid to Rest," Chicago Defender, about June 17, 1939 (clipping viewed in Lindström's article, " ... Gravesite")
  15. ^ City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Certificate of Occupancy No. 23360, February 4, 1938
  16. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Jazz, Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Prentice-Hall (1982), p. 176; OCLC 239745206
  17. ^ "The Tommy Ladnier Gravesite," by Bo Lindström, Jazz Research (no date) (retrieved May 15, 2020)

External links

  • Tommy Ladnier (1900-1939) at the Red Hot Jazz Archive

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Thomas James Ladnier May 28 1900 June 4 1939 was an American jazz trumpeter Hugues Panassie an influential French critic jazz historian and renowned exponent of New Orleans jazz rated Ladnier sometime on or before 1956 second only to Louis Armstrong 1 2 3 Tommy LadnierBirth nameThomas James LadnierBorn 1900 05 28 May 28 1900Mandeville Louisiana U S DiedJune 4 1939 1939 06 04 aged 39 Harlem Manhattan New YorkGenresJazzInstrument s TrumpetYears active1921 1939 Contents 1 Early years 2 Early career 3 Career 4 Death 5 References 6 External linksEarly years EditLadnier was born in Mandeville Louisiana located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain with New Orleans on the opposite shore Beginning 1914 Ladnier performed in Mandeville s Independence Band at the Dew Drop Dance Hall led by clarinetist Isidore Frick ne Isidore Fritz 1890 1940 Trumpeter Bunk Johnson sometimes played with this band and gave young Ladnier lessons Other members of the band included Louis Fritz trombone Joe Fritz bass Klebert Cagnolatti drums older brother of trumpeter Cag Cagnolatti 1911 1983 Claybear sax Leon Laurent violin Buddy Petit 1890 1931 cornet Lucien Fritz drums Edmond Hall 1901 1967 clarinet 4 5 In 1917 Ladnier moved with his mother to Chicago and worked in the stock yards Early career EditLadnier on February 1 1920 in Chicago married Daisy Mathews nee Hazel B Mathews 1902 1979 6 Around 1921 he became a professional musician Ladnier played for some time in St Louis with Charlie Creath 7 Beginning in 1923 he played in Chicago and made many recordings for Paramount Records with pianist Lovie Austin accompanying blues singers Ma Rainey Ida Cox and Alberta Hunter For some time Ladnier played with his inspiration King Oliver He emulated Oliver s freak style on the solo in Play that Thing with Ollie Power s Harmony Syncopators in September 1923 8 On March 13 1923 in Chicago Ladnier s mother Willie Ladnier nee Willie Williams abt 1879 1923 died from a gun shot at a party quarrel Career EditLadnier joined pianist Sam Wooding in 1925 7 for an extensive tour Germany Sweden Denmark Spain and Russia 9 10 Main article Chocolate Kiddies 1925 European tour This orchestra recorded in Berlin He returned to New York and became the hot soloist for the Fletcher Henderson orchestra from 1926 1927 11 He returned to the Sam Wooding Orchestra for another tour 7 Germany Austria Turkey Switzerland Italy and France then left in January 1929 to work freelance in Paris A short tour with dancer Harry Fleming brought him to Spain where he met dancer Louis Douglas and joined him shortly in November 1929 in Paris acting as orchestra leader He again free lanced in Paris until summer 1930 when he joined the Noble Sissle dance band performing in Paris and London He returned to U S at the end of 1930 and stayed with Sissle until January 1932 The Sissle orchestra made some recordings in London and New York Back in America in 1932 Ladnier and Sidney Bechet formed the New Orleans Feetwarmers During the Depression they tried to run a tailor shop in Harlem but neither was interested in business Ladnier left New York and played in the east sometimes giving trumpet lessons For a year he lived in Stamford Connecticut In 1938 Hugues Panassie a French critic and record producer who met Ladnier in Paris in 1930 visited New York He found Ladnier and recorded the Panassie Sessions with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow 7 Ladnier and Bechet participated in the first From Spirituals to Swing concert arranged by John Hammond in December 1938 Ladnier s last studio recording was on February 1 1939 in New York as a sideman with singer Rosetta Crawford de accompanied by James P Johnson s Hep Cats Decca 7584 With Johnson 1894 1955 on piano his sidemen were Teddy Bunn 1909 1978 guitar Elmer James 1910 1954 double bass and Zutty Singleton 1898 1975 drums 12 Death EditAt age 39 Ladnier died unexpectedly of a heart attack June 4 1939 while staying at Mezz Mezzrow s apartment at 1 West 126th Street 13 a six story 48 unit residential building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan 14 15 It fell upon Mezzrow to take care of Ladnier s belongings and bury him The memorial service was on Friday June 9 1939 Ladnier was buried at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Staten Island an African American cemetery 16 The first burials there were in 1935 Ladnier s grave is No 58 range 13 Section H Despite efforts by Mezzrow and friends the grave remained unmarked for nearly 69 years Then grave marker 30 centimetre 12 in square 13 millimetre 0 51 in thick was placed on Ladnier s grave It was carved from Nero Granite with no grain structure and is attached to a concrete base The marker was engraved by Bob Sprauge and was placed on site by Bob Lang 17 References Edit Guide to Jazz re Ladnier Tommy by Hugues Panassie and Madeleine Gautier Panassi s wife since 1949 translated by Desmond Flower 1907 1997 Houghton Mifflin Company 1956 pps 162 163 OCLC 461481104 ISBN 978 0 8371 6766 4 Biographical Dictionary of Afro American and African Musicians re Ladnier Thomas by Eileen Jackson Southern 1920 2002 Greenwood Press 1982 p 236 LCCN 81 2586 OCLC 902119012 ISBN 0 313 21339 9 borrowable online via Internet Archive Her sources Hendersonia The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians a Bio Discography by Walter C Allen 1974 OCLC 475144125 476590380Who s Who of Jazz Storyville to Swingstreet by John Chilton 1970 reprint Time Life Records Special Edition 1978 OCLC 78228641The New Edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz re Ladnier Thomas by Leonard Feather Horizon Press 1960 OCLC 977415297 Re print by Bonanza Books 1960 pps 304 305 OCLC 699625902The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900 1950 Vol 3 of 4 by Roger D Kinkle 1916 2000 Arlington House Publishers 1974 OCLC 768910192 ISBN 978 0 8700 0229 8Jazz Records 1897 1942 4th rev and enlarged ed by Brian Rust Arlington House Publishers 1978 OCLC 1039436498 ISBN 978 0 8700 0404 9 Tommy Ladnier and His Orchestra p 917 New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Barry Dean Kernfeld ed Entry Ladnier Tommy by Bob Zieff St Martin s Press 1996 pps 670 671 this is a 1996 one volume re print of the 1994 two volume edition published by Macmillan Press Limited OCLC 867575922 1995 re print ISBN 0 3336 3231 1 ISBN 0 3121 1357 9 Zieff s sources Discography of Tommy Ladnier by Eric F Keartland Jazz Forum Quarterly Review of Jazz and Literature No 3 January 1947 p 24 OCLC 477727289 Evolution of Jazz column by J Lee Anderson ne Justus Lee Anderson 1922 1995 DownBeat ISSN 0012 5768 Vol 19 No 1 January 11 1952 p 16Vol 19 No 2 January 25 1952 p 11 Tommy Ladnier A Biography and Assessment by Albert J McCarthy 1920 1987 Jazz Monthly Vol 2 No 7 September 1956 pps 2 3 OCLC 259926681 Tommy Ladnier Par Le Disque by Hugues Panassie Bulletin du Hot Club de France ISSN 0755 7272 Issue 139 July August 1964 p 3Issue 140 September 1964 p 7 Tommy Ladnier by Christopher Hillman Jazz Journal Vol 18 No 8 1965 p 6 OCLC 1069305202 ISSN 0021 5651 ISSN 0308 1990 Tommy Ladnier The Sensational Cornetist by Christopher Hillman Footnote Dedicated to New Orleans Music OCLC 760092525 777070319 865510320 ISSN 0958 6695 Vol 13 No 1 October November 1981 p 4Vol 13 No 2 December 1981 January 1982 p 4 Tommy Ladnier Some Mid Western Jobs by Christopher Hillman Footnote Dedicated to New Orleans Music Vol 13 No 6 August September 1982 p 16 The Dew Drop Dance Hall January 10 2019 Tammany Family Articles amp Photos about St Tammany Parish blog of Ron Barthet retrieved May 15 2020 Oral interview Andy Anderson interviewee audio Digest April 30 1960 additional information and corrections by Andy Anderson June 21 1973 re type also present William Russell Richard B Allen Ralph Collins Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University courtesy of Music Rising at Tulane Tulane University full attribution is not clear Illinois Cook County Marriages 1871 1920 FamilySearch online database Thomas J Ladnier and Hazel B Matthews married February 1 1920 database updated March 10 2018 FHL Reference ID 857476FHL Genealogical Society Film number 1030721Digital Folder Number 4272549Image Number 23IGI Project Batch No M01033 5 free access but registration required a b c d All Music Guide to Jazz re Tommy Ladnier article entry by Scott Yanow Michael Erlewine executive editorVladimir Bogdanov database designChris Woodstra editor in chiefStephen Thomas Erlewine senior editorScott Yanow senior jazz editor 3rd ed paperback Miller Freeman Books 1998 p 673 OCLC 71402439 760120946 ISBN 978 0 8793 0530 7 online edition Tommy Ladnier AllMusic Retrieved 5 July 2017 Note Ladnier s place of birth and place of death in the print version differs from other sources Brothers Thomas 2014 Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism New York NY W W Norton amp Company p 101 ISBN 978 0 393 06582 4 Tommy Ladnier in Rusland in Dutch by Bo Lindstrom born 1939 and Daniel Vernhettes born 1942 Doctor Jazz Magazine nl Amsterdam June 2009 p 16 ISSN 0166 2309 Traveling Blues The Life and Music of Tommy Ladnier by Bo Lindstrom born 1939 and Daniel Vernhettes born 1942 Paris Jazz Edit 2009 OCLC 471874599 1010079957 Brothers Thomas 2014 Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism New York NY W W Norton amp Company pp 278 79 ISBN 978 0 393 06582 4 Jazz Records 1897 1942 4th rev and enlarged ed re Rosetta Crawford by Brian Rust Arlington House Publishers 1978 p 357 OCLC 1039436498 ISBN 978 0 8700 0404 9 New York New York City Municipal Deaths 1795 1949 FamilySearch online database Thomas Ladnier DOD June 4 1939 Manhattan New York City database updated February 10 2018 original source New York City Municipal Archives FHL Microfilm No 2109536 free access but registration required Tom Ladnier Cornetist Is Laid to Rest Chicago Defender about June 17 1939 clipping viewed in Lindstrom s article Gravesite City of New York Borough of Manhattan Certificate of Occupancy No 23360 February 4 1938 Biographical Dictionary of Jazz Charles Eugene Claghorn 1911 2005 Prentice Hall 1982 p 176 OCLC 239745206 The Tommy Ladnier Gravesite by Bo Lindstrom Jazz Research no date retrieved May 15 2020 External links EditTommy Ladnier 1900 1939 at the Red Hot Jazz Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tommy Ladnier amp oldid 1075045845, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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