Madison, Levi

Américain. Etudes : Joe Gustat (St. Louis). Expérience : Eddie Johnson, Original St. Louis Crackerjacks (St Louis, années 1930). A joué l’emb. Heim. Disciple de Louis Armstrong. ‘Levi Madison was a cat that we all loved so much, because he was the guy that we all felt, and still feel like, had the greatest sound of anybody in the world. But he’s a little bit poco loco, a little crazy…He plays with a big, beautiful vibrato, and then he would take his horn down and laugh…He played so beautifully, with a big, fat sound’ (Clark Terry, 1991).

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Original St. Louis Crackerjacks (1936, ‘Echo in the Dark’).