Bill Beason

A Louisville indigenous, drummer Costs Beason used many basic jazz artists, including an extended stint keeping down the drum seat in the orchestra of singer Ella Fitzgerald. Beason began in the Booker T. Washington Center Music group in his hometown, signing up for up with Horace Henderson’s Collegians in 1924 from then on bandleader taken off a raid on musically talented learners at Wilberforce College or university in Ohio. The drummer spent the rest of the part of this 10 years with Henderson, after that relocated to NEW YORK in the ’30s, where he started employed in the music group of Bingie Madison. In the middle-’30s he was drumming for Teddy Hill, employment that resulted in Beason’s first Western european tour. Beason also performed and documented with Jelly Move Morton during this time period. In 1938 and 1939 he used Don Redman, briefly with trumpet dynamo Roy Eldridge, after that was earned towards the Fitzgerald music group to displace the terminally sick Chick Webb. Beason was connected with Fitzgerald until past due 1941; he also rejoined Henderson’s brand-new outfit in nov that season. Through the ’40s, the drummer freelanced in groupings led by John Kirby, Eddie Heywood, Ben Webster, Adam Moody, Sy Oliver, Earl Bostic, and many more, exhibiting a sure and regular sense of your time and a possibly polite palette of percussive prompts, specifically by modern specifications. By the first ’50s, nevertheless, Beason appears to have dropped his fascination with drumming. He remained in the brand new York area, surviving in the Bronx, but remained off drum stools. The drummer left out an obvious record of his achievements — or, even more accurately, some five dozen of these — showing up on at least 60 different documenting classes between 1930-1947.