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 scene. Manatí redirects here For other uses see Manatí (disambiguation. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} 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
Escudero began playing bass in a school band at age 12, and moved to New York City, playing with the New Amsterdam Musical Association in 1920-21. The City of New York Founded in 1904 the New Amsterdam Musical Association, NAMA claims itself to be the oldest African-American musical organization in the United States In 1923 he was playing with Wilbur Sweatman at the Howard Theater in Washington, D.C. when Fletcher Henderson overheard his playing and offered him a job. Wilbur C Sweatman ( Brunswick Missouri, February 7 1882 - New York City, March 9, 1961) was an African-American Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr ( December 18, 1897 &ndash December 28, 1952) was an American pianist bandleader Arranger He remained in Henderson's employ until 1926, when he joined McKinney's Cotton Pickers, where he played and recorded until 1931. McKinney's Cotton Pickers were a United States Jazz band founded in Detroit in 1926 by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten In the 1930s he played with Kaiser Marshall, the Savoy Bearcats, and W.C. Handy , then returned to Puerto Rico, playing there into the 1960s. Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (June 11 1899 Savannah Georgia - January 3 1948 New York City) was an American Jazz drummer The Savoy Bearcats were an eleven-piece Jazz band led by Leon Abbey, which was the house band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City from its William Christopher Handy ( November 16 1873 &ndash March 28 1958) was a Blues Composer and Musician, often
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- Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. 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. 213.
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