I want a Little Girl - Doc Cheatham

I want a Little Girl - Doc Cheatham

In a live performance taped for German TV American trumpet player Doc Cheatham plays and sings "I want a little Girl". He is backed up by the excellent rhytm group of the Barrelhouse Jazz Band. I'm not certain what the recording date was but I would guess that Doc is in his early eighties.I had the honour to play next to Doc during a two week period where Doc would be the special guest of our Climax Jazz Band in 1978. We played 6 nights a week and Doc (then in his early seventies) surprised us with his creativity, his wonderful friendship and his continuous inventiveness.
From his bio:
Adolphus Anthony Doc Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 13th 1905. He worked first in vaudeville theatres backing visiting blues singers (including both Clara and Bessie Smith) and playing for burlesque shows. By 1926, in Chicago, he was still occasionally trying saxophone, until the influence of Louis Armstrong and Freddie Keppard took over;soon after, on trumpet now, he was recording with Ma Rainey and soaking up music.
He travelled to Europe with Sam Wooding sharing the trumpet solos with Tommy Ladnier.Returning to New York he next spent ten years with McKinney's Cotton Pickers and then with Cab Calloway 1933/39. After a break due to ill health he joined Teddy Wilson and then Eddie Heywood.
By 1945, out of sympathy with Bebop, he took a job with the Post Office, worked out some dental problems, opened a New York teaching studio and took stock in general. He was soon back and, perhaps surprisingly, playing the jazz solos with a variety of Latin-American bands including Machito's and Perez Prado's.
By the 1950's he was swinging again working with Wilber De Paris, Sammy Price and Herbie Mann, then led his own band for five years at Broadway's International Hotel. 1966/7 saw him with the Goodman band, then in the 1970's began to build an international soloist's reputation as a result of records, touring and a general public feeling that his career was worth celebrating.

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[qlturalny]

My girlfriend is only 1.6m but I love her more than life and this song will play at our wedding

[metatarsalman]

Wow, love the Doc. When my wife Helaine and I were dating back in the early 80's, we would go to Sweet Basils in NYC for brunch and listen to Doc. My favorite tune was My Sweet Lorraine. I imagine that I'll one day play that tune for Helaine Doc Cheatham style. I almost have the age, still workin on the doo. We miss Mr. Cheatham.

[PeLYcAnOO]

WOW !

[Bumptiously]

Just read Nat Hentoff's book "Listen to the Stories". Says Doc Cheatham was " a late bloomer as a soloist... a really late bloomer. Started soloing when he was sixty. " man, I just love this guy. He is real. His playing is real. and I've got to say, I love his singing because he does the most with the least.

[willy714willy]

Fué trompetista de Richie Ray en los años 60's

[msjazzmeblues]

In the 1981 documentary "Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet" Doc Cheatham was interviewed about Bix's influence upon him and others playing at that time. In fact, it is his voice-over that ends the film "thank music, thank the man."

Doc was truly a great player--great tone, great phrasing!

[pitotoiii]

"Doc" is Cherokee indian .....

[pitotoiii]

Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham is "Mr. Trumpetman" in Richie Ray 'S latin group .

[newkbean]

Your'e special to me Doc! Remember our talk about Benny Goodman?

[fillra]

Great solos, so delicate and inventive.

The medallion hanging from Doc's trumpet is of Louis Armstrong, Doc's hero.

jazzhouse: Doc's final gig was at the Blues Alley club in Washington two days before his death, aged 92.