Charles Edward "Charlie" Dixon (1898(?), Jersey City, New Jersey - December 6, 1940, New York City) was an American jazz banjoist. Jersey City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The City of New York Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States
Dixon played in local ensembles in Boston and New York before becoming a member of Sam Wooding's orchestra in 1922. Sam Wooding ( 17 June, 1895 &ndash 1 August, 1985) was an Expatriate American Jazz pianist, Arranger In 1923 he joined up with Fletcher Henderson, playing and writing arrangements for him until 1928 and continuing to write charts for Henderson after his departure. Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr ( December 18, 1897 &ndash December 28, 1952) was an American pianist bandleader Arranger He played with Henderson in both small and big band formats, and recorded in Henderson's pseudonymous groups like the Dixie Stompers. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Among the musicians he played with while under Wooding and Henderson were Kaiser Marshall, Louis Armstrong, Ralph Escudero, Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman, and Elmer Chambers. Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (June 11 1899 Savannah Georgia - January 3 1948 New York City) was an American Jazz drummer Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 &ndash July 6 1971 nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American Jazz Trumpeter Rafael "Ralph" Escudero (July 16 1898 Manati, Puerto Rico - April 10 1970 Puerto Rico was a bassist and tubist active on the early American Jazz Coleman Randolph Hawkins ( November 21 1904 - May 19 1969) Nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean" was a prominent Donald Matthew Redman ( July 29, 1900, Piedmont, West Virginia - November 30, 1964, New York) was an American Dallas Elmer Chambers, also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897 Bayonne New Jersey - ca He also played in small ensembles accompanying singers such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Trixie Smith, and Alberta Hunter in the 1920s. Bessie Smith (July 9 1892 or April 15 1894&ndash September 26 1937 was an American Blues singer Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey ( April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest known Trixie Smith (born 1895 Atlanta, Georgia; died September 21 1943, New York City New York) was an American Alberta Hunter ( April 1 1895 - October 17 1984) was an American Blues Singer, Songwriter, and
In the 1930s, he led a band which accompanied dancer Cora LaRedd, and arranged and composed for Chick Webb. William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb ( February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was a Jazz and Swing music Unlike most of the banjoists of his era, he never switched to guitar, and his banjo work is often difficult to hear on record.
References
- Charlie Dixon at All Music Guide
- Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Leonard Geoffrey Feather ( 13 September 1914 &ndash 22 September 1994) was a British -born Jazz pianist, Ira Gitler (born December 18, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz historian and journalist Oxford, 1999, p. 184.
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