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Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987.
Woody Herman (1913-1987) Actor. Composer. Music Department. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Legendary clarinetist, composer ("At the Woodchoppers' Ball"), singer and bandleader (the Thundering Herd (s) ), educated at Marquette University.
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- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Woody Herman: “Blue Flame: Portrait of a Jazz Legend” (Jazzed Media) Near the end of Graham Carter’s documentary “ Blue Flame ”, Al Julian of the Woody Herman Society laments that Herman is not remembered along with established big band giants like Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Stan Kenton.
May 16, 2013 · Woody Herman, who would have turned 100 on Thursday, bloomed early and late — and then later still. He turned pro by age 9, singing and dancing in movie theaters on summer vacation.
- Kevin Whitehead
- For The Record…
- The Evolution of The Herd
- Kept His Personality in The Background
- Difficult Times in The 1960s and 1970s
- Selected Discography
- Sources
Born Woodrow Charles Thomas Herman, May 16, 1913, in Milwaukee, WI; died of congestive heart failure, emphysema, and pneumonia, October 29,1987, in Los Angeles, CA; father was a shoemaker, mother’s name, Martha; married Charlotte Neste, September 21, 1936; children: Ingrid. Performed as a child in dramatic and musical acts in the Great Lakes region...
By the early 1940s, recordings and newspaper advertisements were calling the Band That Plays the Blues the Woody Herman Band, and around 1944, it became widely known as Woody Herman’s Herd, the name by which Metronomejazz critic George T. Simon had been referring to it since the early 1940s. The Herd became tremendously popular during World War II....
Herman was different from many other bandleaders of the day—such as Benny Goodman, Harry James, or Artie Shaw—because he never made himself the star attraction of the band. Herman, who played alto saxophone, clarinet, and sang some of the group’s numbers, was never as strong a soloist as Goodman, James, or Shaw, and preferred to let the other membe...
While the Thundering Herd was successful, Herman’s own life became progressively more difficult. In the early 1960s he took on a business manager, who was a chronic gambler and so mishandled Herman’s finances that a few years later, Herman learned that he owed the Internal Revenue Service 1.6 million dollars. Herman worked the rest of his life to p...
World Class, Concord Jazz, 1982. 50th Anniversary Tour, Concord Jazz, 1987. The 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert, Bluebird, 1988. The Thundering Herds, 1945-1947, Columbia Jazz Masterpieces, 1988. The Third Herd: “Early Autumn,” Discovery, 1988. The Best of the Decca Years, MCA, 1988. Woody Herman, Verve, 1988. Woody and Friends, Concord Jazz...
Books
Herman, Woody, and Stuart Troup, The Woodchopper’s Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman,Dutton, 1990. Simon, George T., The Big Bands,Schirmer Books, 1981.
Periodicals
American Scholar,summer 1989. Atlantic,April 1986. Billboard,November 14, 1987. Down Beat,November 1986; February 1988. —Joyce Harrison
Apr 11, 2013 · Herman broadened his scope in the late 1960s, when he took up soprano saxophone and included young jazz-rock players in his groups. He toured widely in the 1970s, and in the early 1980s held a residency in a club in New Orleans.
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Oct 25, 2024 · Woody Herman (born May 16, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.—died October 29, 1987, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, bandleader, and singer who was best known as the front man for a succession of bands he dubbed “herds.”
