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Jazz trumpeter Bill Coleman signed LP. Bill Coleman was one of the most important jazz trumpeters of the swing era.
This 33-rpm LP was released in 1971 in France, where he was living.
BILL COLEMAN accompagné par “l’original jazz band » de RAYMOND FONSEQUE
(BILL COLEMAN accompanied by “the original jazz band » of RAYMOND FONSEQUE)
Signed on back
Nice condition. LP looks pristine. Cover is fine+, small piece of paper glued to back.
William Johnson Coleman (1904 in Paris, Kentucky – 1981 in Toulouse) was a jazz trumpeter.
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.
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.
LP was released in France in 1971. Tracklist:
