Buck Clayton
An excellent bandleader and accompanist for many vocalists, including Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton was a valued soloist with Count Basie Orchestra during the '30s and '40s, and later was a celebrated studio and jam session player, writer, and arranger. His tart, striking tone and melodic dexterity were his trademark, and Clayton provided several charts for Basie's orchestra and many other groups. Clayton began his career in California, where he organized a big band that had a residency in China in 1934. When he returned, Clayton led a group and played with other local bands. During a 1936 visit to Kansas City, he was invited to join Basie's orchestra as a replacement for Hot Lips Page. Clayton was also featured on sessions with Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, and Holiday in the late '30s. He remained in the Basie band until 1943, when he left for army service. After leaving the army, Clayton did arrangements for Basie, Benny Goodman, and Harry James before forming a sextet in the late '40s. He toured Europe with this group in 1949 and 1950. Clayton continued heading a combo during the '50s, and worked with Joe Bushkin, Tony Parenti, and Jimmy Rushing, among others. He organized a series of outstanding recordings for Columbia in the mid-'50s under the title Jam Session (compiled and reissued by Mosaic in 1993). There were sessions with Rushing, Ruby Braff, and Nat Pierce. Clayton led a combo with Coleman Hawkins and J.J. Johnson at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, then reunited with Goodman in 1957 at the Waldorf Astoria. There was another European tour, this time with Mezz Mezzrow. He appeared in the 1956 film The Benny Goodman Story and played the 1958 Brussels World Fair with Sidney Bechet. Clayton later made another European visit with a Newport Jazz Festival tour. He joined Eddie Condon's band in 1959, a year after appearing in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day. Clayton toured Japan and Australia with Condon's group in 1964, and continued to revisit Europe throughout the '60s, often with Humphrey Lyttelton's band, while playing festivals across the country. But lip and health problems virtually ended his playing career in the late '60s. After a period outside of music, Clayton once again became active in music, this time as a non-playing arranger, touring Africa as part of a State Department series in 1977. He provided arrangements and compositions for a 1974 Lyttleton and Buddy Tate album, and did more jam session albums for Chiaroscuro in 1974 and 1975. He also became an educator, teaching at Hunter College in the early '80s. Clayton led a group of Basie sidemen on a European tour in 1983, then headed his own big band in 1987 that played almost exclusively his compositions and arrangements. That same year Clayton's extensive autobiography Buck Clayton's Jazz World, with Nancy Miller-Elliot, was published.
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Songs for Swingers
Lounge - Released by Ancien Prodige on 28 nov. 2022
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The Greatest Of Buck Clayton, Cootie Williams & Booker Little (All Tracks Remastered)
Buck Clayton, Cootie Williams, Booker Little
Jazz - Released by Millennium Digital Remaster on 15 jan. 2023
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How Hi the Fi
Lounge - Released by Ancien Prodige on 24 jan. 2023
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High Life / A Swinging Doll (All Tracks Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Hit Singles Records on 23 mrt. 2020
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Buck and Buddy Blow the Blues
Lounge - Released by Ancien Prodige on 12 dec. 2022
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The Dixieland All Stars
Buck Clayton, Bud Freeman, Champlin Jones, Joe Jones, Lou Carter
Jazz - Released by Crazy Warthog Media on 1 jan. 2022
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The Remaster (All Tracks Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Millennium Digital Remaster on 25 okt. 2020
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Jam Sessions, 1953, Vol. 5 (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Vintage Recordings on 25 nov. 2021
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Jam Sessions, 1955, Vol. 8 (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Vintage Recordings on 29 nov. 2021
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Jam Sessions, 1954, Vol. 7 (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Vintage Recordings on 25 nov. 2021
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Jam Sessions, 1956, Vol. 9 (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Vintage Recordings on 25 nov. 2021
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Jam Sessions, 1954, Vol. 6 (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Vintage Recordings on 29 nov. 2021
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Swings the Village (The Buck Clayton Swing Band Live in Greenwich Village, NYC, 1990)
Jazz - Released by Nagel heyer records on 1 jan. 1990
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Lush Life (feat. Jimmy Rushing)
Jazz - Released by Nagel heyer records on 7 sep. 2017
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All for You (Live in Europe)
Jazz - Released by nagel heyer records on 8 mrt. 2019
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Swingin' and Dancing
Jazz - Released by SINETONE AMR on 7 feb. 2016
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