George Stevenson

Trombonist George Stevenson recorded and performed with an array of golf swing and basic jazz bandleaders during the period of nearly a half of a hundred years of professional performing, but his root base were in dance rings through the Roaring Twenties. A few of these clothes sported unusual, also exotic brands including Harold Stepteau & His Aristocrats and Norwood Fennan & His Nubians. The Stevenson family members is itself extremely musical: the trombonist’s sibling was a pianist, as their dad was also, while boy George Stevenson, Jr., finished up embracing the trombone to get a creative outlet. Mature trombonist Stevenson was just 15 when he became a member of the Baltimore Melody Young boys. This ensemble was fronted by music instructor A.J. Thomas, who got trained Stevenson saxophone aswell as his eventual long lasting horn choice. Pursuing four many years of commitment, Stevenson moved to a youthful group led by these Stepteau, that one utilizing the well-known Melody Young boys moniker. Stevenson quickly shanghaied the name itself when setting up his very own Baltimore Melody Young boys in the middle-’20s. He place this group apart a couple of years later on and relocated to NEW YORK, working at locations like the Arcadia Ballroom with bandleader Irwin Hughes aswell as moving out of city for Stepteau trips. As the ’30s advanced the trombonist’s involvements became increasingly more swinging and by the center of this 10 years he was using Fletcher Henderson and Claude Hopkins, amongst others. One of is own much longer stints was with Lucky Millinder, enduring from 1939 through 1943. From right here Stevenson began operating through the ’40s with many superb trumpeters: Cootie Williams, Kitty Anderson, and lastly Roy Eldridge in 1947. He was known mainly like a freelancer out of this period on, gigging with good traditional jazz bandleaders but hardly ever staying place for lengthy. He toured European countries with Sam Price’s Bluesicians from past due 1955 through the springtime of 1956. Stevenson worked well in and out of NEW YORK on the ensuing 10 years, sometimes leading his personal combo in Wantagh, NY, and in the past due ’60s keeping forth within the mob at NY location Jimmy Ryan’s.