Celestial Express - Music

Edmond Hall 15 May 1901 Reserve Louisiana – 11 February 1967 Boston Was An American Jazz Clarinetist And Bandleader. His Father Edward Blainey Hall And Mother Caroline Duhe Had Eight Children Priscilla 1893 Moretta 1895 Viola 1897 Robert 1899 Edmond 1901 Clarence 1903 Edward 1905 And Herbert Herb 1907 . It Took Edmond Hall A Long Period To Develop His Own Musical Individuality But By The Early '40s He Had A Very Distinctive And Dirty Sound On The Clarinet That Was Immediately Recognizable Within One Note. One Of Four Clarinet Playing Brothers Including Herbie Hall Who Were The Sons Of Early Clarinetist Edward Hall Edmond Worked In Many Bands In New Orleans Including Buddy Petit's During 1921-1923 Before Going To New York In 1928 With Alonzo Ross. He Was With Claude Hopkins' Orchestra 1929-1935 Doubling On Baritone And Only Occasionally Sounding Like His Future Self On Clarinet. Hall Played With Lucky Millinder Zutty Singleton And Joe Sullivan And Had His Style Together By The Time He Joined Red Allen In 1940. He Was With Teddy Wilson's Sextet 1941-1944 And Turned Down An Opportunity To Be Barney Bigard's Successor With Duke Ellington's Orchestra In 1942. In 1944 Hall Began Working With Eddie Condon Including Appearances On His Town Hall Concert Radio Series Led His Own Group At Cafe Society Spent A Few Years Based In Boston And Then During 1950-1955 Was In The House Band At Condon's Club. Edmond Hall Toured The World As A Member Of Louis Armstrong's All-Stars 1955-1958 Worked In The 1960s Now And Then With Condon And Made His Final Recording Before His Death From A Heart Attack At John Hammond's 1967 Spirituals To Swing Concert. He Recorded As A Leader For Blue Note 1941-1944 Commodore Savoy Storyville United Artists And Some Smaller Labels. read less