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As a child, Woody Herman worked as a singer and tap-dancer in vaudeville, then started to play the clarinet and saxophone by age 12. [6] In 1931 he met Charlotte Neste, an aspiring actress; [7] the couple married on September 27, 1936. [8] Woody Herman joined the Tom Gerun band and his first recorded vocals were "Lonesome Me" and "My Heart's at ...
- 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
May 16, 2013 · Enlarge this image. American jazz musician Woody Herman rehearses in London during a tour of England. Keystone/Getty Images. Woody Herman, who would have turned 100 on Thursday, bloomed early and...
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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.
Musician Woody Herman and wife attend "A Gift of Music" A Tribute to Men and Women of Achievement to Celebrate Los Angeles' Bicentennial on April 25, 1981 at Metromedia Square in Hollywood,... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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Mar 16, 2020 · This new seven-disc set fills in the holes with everything from Woody’s brief and erratic MGM career (1946-52) and the first complete edition of the under-valued Third Herd recordings of 1952-54. If you are interested in buying it, you should hurry, for Mosaic doesn’t have a huge amount of the boxes remaining.
