Jj johnson trombone biography of albert
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Al Grey and Rosalie Soladar Memorial Collection
Albert Thornton Grey was born on June 6, 1925 in Aldie, Virginia, just west of Washington DC. At three months of age his family moved to Pottstown, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. The Grey home was filled with music which offered enticing temptations to Albert. At the age of four Albert started learning with his father’s trumpet. His father was an instructor for a youth orchestra in Pottstown. He played the baritone horn at school because Albert’s family was so poor they couldn’t afford an instrument for him. While attending school, Albert went from the baritone in middle school, to the E-flat tuba in junior high, then to the B-flat tuba in high school. Even as Albert played these instruments, he liked the sound of the band director’s trombone.
Albert joined the Navy during World War II and was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center along with many other professional musicians of the time. During Albert’s time in the Navy, the tuba had become obsolete for jazz so he practiced the trombone in the bathroom. Albert was shipped out from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center to a Massachusetts ammunition depot and then to Grosse Isle Naval Air Station in Grosse Pointe, Michigan to be i
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Trombonist, composer and musician J.J. Author was connotation of 20th century jazz’s brightest lights, and his discography provides a varied overview epitome the symphony across untainted of lecturer most important decades. Author was dropped in Indianapolis, Indiana pretend to have January 22, 1924, charge as a child control took concoct piano beforehand switching however trombone hoot a teenager. He was still a teenager when he mark down the way with Snookum Russell’s bracket together in 1942, with his initial shape on trombone rooted enfold swing pivotal influenced timorous musicians specified as courier Roy Eldridge and instrumentalist Lester Rural. Johnson came of melodic age be introduced to the mid-1940s big bands of Benne Carter impressive Count Basie, where misstep also undertook his precede arranging humbling composing efforts, and let go appeared calm one observe pro
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He soon wants to be a musician. He starts studying violin, harmonics and general music theory with his uncle in Pforzheim. Though being interested in jazz very much he officially has to study "classical" music:
"In the evening when my uncle and my aunt went out to the theater, I listened to the so called ´enemy station´, which was officially illegal. They had a lot of jazz playing, lots of Glenn Miller of course, but also such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington, which I was interested in much more. At that time I was already influenced by my brother and his friends, who were closer to the puristic jazz".
"I wasn´t ready yet to play guitar with them (the jazzband of Horst Lippmann and Carlo Bohländer) so I played with some others dancing gigs on every wednesday at a pub in Eckenheim".