Woody Herman
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Birth name | Woodrow Charles Herman |
Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | May 16, 1913
Died | October 29, 1987 West Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 74)
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Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental for its time; they received numerous Grammy nominations and awards.
Early life and career
Herman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 16, 1913.[1] His parents were Otto and Myrtle (Bartoszewicz) Herman.[2][3] His mother was Polish.[4] His father had a deep love for show business and this influenced Woody Herman at an early age.[5] As a child he 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] they 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 Ease".[9] Herman also performed with the Harry Sosnick orchestra,[10] Gus Arnheim and Isham Jones.[11] Isham Jones wrote many popular songs, including "It Had to Be You" and at some point was tiring of the demands of leading a band. Jones wanted to live off the residuals of his songs; Woody Herman saw the chance to lead his former band,[12] and eventually acquired the remains of the orchestra after Jones' retirement.
The Band That Plays The Blues, 1936–43
Woody Herman's first band became known for its orchestrations of the blues, and was sometimes billed as "The Band That Plays The Blues". This band recorded for the Decca label, at first serving as a cover band, doing songs by other Decca artists.[13] The first song recorded was "Wintertime Dreams" on November 6, 1936. In January 1937 George T. Simon closed a review of the band with the words: "This Herman outfit bears watching; not only because it's fun listening to in its present stages, but also because it's bound to reach even greater stages."[14] After two and a half years on the label, the band had its first hit, "Woodchopper's Ball" recorded in 1939.[15] Woody Herman remembered that "Woodchopper's Ball" started out slowly at first. "[I]t was really a sleeper. But Decca kept re-releasing it, and over a period of three or four years it became a hit. Eventually it sold more than five million copies—the biggest hit I ever had."[16] In January 1942, Herman would have his highest rated single (#1 in the Billboard charts), singing Harold Arlen's "Blues in the Night" backed by his orchestra. Other hits for the band include "Blue Flame" and "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me". Musicians and arrangers that stood out included Cappy Lewis on trumpet and saxophonist/arranger Deane Kincaide.[17] "The Golden Wedding" (1941), arranged by James "Jiggs" Noble, was notable for its extended (34 bars) drum solo by Frankie Carlson.[18]
Be-bop and the First Herd, 1944–46
In jazz, swing was gradually being replaced by bebop. Dizzy Gillespie, a trumpeter and one of the originators of bop, wrote three arrangements for Woody Herman, "Woody'n You", "Swing Shift" and "Down Under". These were arranged in 1942.[19] "Woody'n You" was not used at the time. "Down Under" was recorded July 24, 1942. The fact that Herman commissioned Gillespie to write arrangements for the band and that Herman hired Ralph Burns as a staff arranger, heralded a change in the style of music the band was playing.[20]
In February 1945, the band started a contract with Columbia Records.[21] Herman liked what drew many artists to Columbia, Liederkranz Hall, at the time the best recording venue in New York City. The first side Herman recorded was "Laura", the theme song of the 1944 movie of the same name.[22] Herman's version was so successful that it made Columbia hold from release the arrangement that Harry James had recorded days earlier.[23] The Columbia contract coincided with a change in the band's repertoire. The 1944 group, which he called the First Herd, was famous for its progressive jazz. The First Herd's music was heavily influenced by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Its lively, swinging arrangements, combining bop themes with swing rhythm parts, were greatly admired. As of February 1945 the personnel included Bill Harris, Sonny Berman, Pete Candoli, Billy Bauer (later replaced by Chuck Wayne), Ralph Burns, Davey Tough and Flip Phillips.[24] On February 26, 1945 in New York City, the Woody Herman band recorded "Caldonia".[25]
Neal Hefti and Ralph Burns collaborated on the arrangement of "Caldonia" that the Herman band used.[26] "Ralph caught Louis Jordan [singing "Caldonia"] in an act and wrote the opening twelve bars and the eight bar tag."[25] "But the most amazing thing on the record was a soaring eight bar passage by trumpets near the end." These eight measures have wrongly been attributed to a Gillespie solo, but were in fact originally written by Neal Hefti.[24] George T. Simon compares Hefti with Gillespie in a 1944 review for Metronome magazine saying, "Like Dizzy [...], Hefti has an abundance of good ideas, with which he has aided Ralph Burns immensely".[27]
In 1946 the band won Down Beat, Metronome, Billboard and Esquire polls for best band, nominated by their peers in the big band business.[28] Along with the high acclaim for their jazz and blues performances, classical composer Igor Stravinsky wrote the Ebony Concerto, one in a series of compositions commissioned by Herman with solo clarinet, for this band. Herman recorded this work in the Belock Recording Studio in Bayside New York.[29]
Throughout the history of jazz, there have always been musicians who sought to combine it with classical music.[30] Ebony Concerto is one in a long line of music from the twenties to the present day that seeks to do this. Herman said about the Concerto: "[The Ebony Concerto is a] very delicate and a very sad piece."[31] Stravinsky felt that the jazz musicians would have a hard time with the various time signatures. Saxophonist Flip Philips said, "During the rehearsal [...] there was a passage I had to play there and I was playing it soft, and Stravinsky said 'Play it, here I am!' and I blew it louder and he threw me a kiss!"[32] In his own original way Stravinsky noticed the massive amount of smoking at the recording session: "the atmosphere looked like Pernod clouded by water."[33] Ebony Concerto was performed live by the Herman band on March 25, 1946 at Carnegie Hall.[34]
Despite the Carnegie Hall success and other triumphs, Herman was forced to disband the orchestra in 1946 at the height of its success. This was his only financially successful band; he left it to spend more time with his wife and family. During this time, he and his family had just moved into the former Hollywood home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. One reason Herman may have disbanded was his wife Charlotte's growing alcoholism and pill addiction. Charlotte Herman joined Alcoholics Anonymous and gave up everything she was addicted to. Woody said, laughing, "I went to an AA meeting with Charlotte and my old band was sitting there."[35] Many critics cite December 1946 as the actual date the big-band era ended, when seven other bands, in addition to Herman's, dissolved.[36]
"The Four Brothers Band" and more Herds, 1947–69
In 1947, Herman organized the Second Herd. This band was also known as "The Four Brothers Band". This derives from the song recorded December 27, 1947, for Columbia records, "Four Brothers", written by Jimmy Giuffre,[37] featuring the saxophone section of Zoot Sims, Serge Chaloff, Herbie Steward, and Stan Getz.[38] Some of the notable musicians of this band were also Al Cohn, Gene Ammons, Lou Levy, Oscar Pettiford, Terry Gibbs, and Shelly Manne.[39] Among this band's hits were "Early Autumn", and "The Goof and I". The band was popular enough that they went to Hollywood in the mid-nineteen forties. Herman and his band appear in the movie New Orleans in 1947 with Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.[40]
In 1947, Herman was Emcee and also played at the third Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles which was produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr. on September 7, 1947. The Valdez Orchestra, The Blenders, T-Bone Walker, Slim Gaillard, The Honeydrippers, Johnny Otis and his Orchestra, Sarah Vaughn and the Three Blazers also performed that same day.[41]
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Herman's other bands include the Third Herd (1950–56) and various later editions during the 1960s.[42] In the 1950s, the Third Herd went on a successful European tour.[43] He was known for hiring the best young musicians and using their arrangements.[44] In the early and mid 1960s, Herman gained a wider recognition by fronting one of the most exciting Herds to date that featured future stellar names like Michael Moore, drummer Jake Hanna, tenor saxophonist Sal Nistico, trombonists Phil Wilson and Henry Southall and trumpeters like Bill Chase, Paul Fontaine and Dusko Goykovitch. By 1968, the Herman library came to be heavily influenced by rock and roll.[45] He was also known to feature brass and woodwind instruments not traditionally associated with jazz, such as the bassoon, oboe or French horn.
"The Young Thundering Herds", 1970–87
In the early 1970s he toured frequently and began to work more in jazz education, offering workshops and taking on younger sidemen. For this reason he got the nickname Road Father and the bands were known as the "Young Thundering Herds."[46] In January 1973, Herman was one of the featured halftime performers at Super Bowl VII.[47][48] In 1974, Woody Herman's band appeared without their leader for Frank Sinatra's television special The Main Event and subsequent album, The Main Event – Live. Both were recorded mainly on October 13, 1974, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[49] On November 20, 1976, a reconstituted Woody Herman band played at Carnegie Hall in New York City, celebrating Herman's fortieth anniversary as a bandleader.[50] By the 1980s, Herman had returned to more straight-ahead jazz, but augmented with some of the newer rock and fusion approaches.[51] Herman signed a recording contract with Concord Records around 1980, now called the Concord Music Group.[52] In 1981, John S. Wilson warmly reviewed one of Herman's first Concord recordings "Woody Herman Presents a Concord Jam, Vol. I". Wilson's review says that the recording presents a band that is less frenetic than his bands from the forties to the seventies. Instead it takes the listener back to the relaxed style of Herman's first band of the thirties that recorded for Decca.[53]
Timeline of Woody Herman Bands
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Last years
Herman continued to perform into the 1980s, after the death of his wife and with his health in decline, chiefly to pay back taxes that were owed because of his business manager's bookkeeping in the 1960s.[54] Herman owed the IRS millions of dollars and was in danger of eviction from his home.[6] With this added stress, Herman still kept performing. In a December 5, 1985, review of the band at the Blue Note jazz club for The New York Times, John S. Wilson pointed out: "In a one-hour set, Mr. Herman is able to show off his latest batch of young stars—the baritone saxophonist Nick Brignola, the bassist Bill Moring, the pianist Brad Williams, the trumpeter Ron Stout—and to remind listeners that one of his own basic charms is the dry humor with which he shouts the blues." Wilson also spoke about arrangements by Bill Holman and John Fedchock for special attention. Wilson spoke of the continuing influence of Duke Ellington on Woody Herman bands from the nineteen forties to the nineteen eighties.[55] Before Woody Herman died in 1987 he delegated most of his duties to leader of the reed section, Frank Tiberi.[56] Tiberi leads the current version of the Woody Herman orchestra.[57] Tiberi said at the time of Herman's death that he would not change the band's repertoire or library.[58] Herman had a Catholic funeral on November 2, 1987, at St. Victor's in West Hollywood, California.[59] He is interred in a niche in the columbarium behind the Cathedral Mausoleum in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Awards won by the various Woody Herman orchestras with major publications: "Voted best swing band in 1945 Down Beat poll; Silver Award by critics in 1946 and 1947 Esquire polls; won Metronome poll, band division, 1946 and 1953.
A documentary film titled Woody Herman: Blue Flame- Portrait of a Jazz Legend was released on DVD in late 2012 by the jazz documentary filmmaker Graham Carter, owner of Jazzed Media, to salute Herman and his centenary in May 2013.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Woody Herman among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[60]
Gold records and charts (singles and albums)
Gold Records
- 1939 Woodchopper's Ball (Decca Records) instrumental
- 1945 Laura (Columbia Records) vocal by Woody Herman
Hits as charted singles
(Songs that reached the top of the US or UK charts)
Between 1937 and 1956, Woody Herman had numerous hits on Billboard's charts.[61]
year | Title | Chart peak position | ||||
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US | US R&B | |||||
1937 | I Double Dare You | 18 | ||||
1939 | At the Woodchopper's Ball | 9 | ||||
1939 | Blue Evening | 9 | ||||
1941 | There I Go | 13 | ||||
1941 | Frenesi | 16 | ||||
1941 | The Golden Wedding | 23 | ||||
1941 | Blue Flame | 5 | ||||
1941 | G'bye Now (sung by Muriel Lane) | 10 | ||||
1941 | By-U By-O (sung by Muriel Lane) | 20 | ||||
1942 | Blues in the Night (sung by Woody Herman) | 1 | ||||
1942 | Rose O'Day | 18 | ||||
1942 | Amen[62] | 5 | ||||
1943 | Four or Five Times | 17 | ||||
1944 | Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me | 7 | 4 | |||
1944 | The Music Stopped (sung by Frances Wayne) | 10 | ||||
1944 | By the River of the Roses | 12 | ||||
1944 | Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet | 10 | ||||
1944 | Let Me Love You Tonight (sung by Billie Rogers) | 18 | ||||
1945 | Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) (sung by Frances Wayne) | 18 | ||||
1945 | Laura | 4 | ||||
1945 | Caldonia | 2 | ||||
1945 | A Kiss Goodnight | 9 | ||||
1945 | Northwest Passage | 13 | ||||
1946 | Fan It | 4 | ||||
1946 | Gee, It's Good to Hold You (sung by Frances Wayne) | 17 | ||||
1946 | Everybody Knew but Me | 11 | ||||
1946 | Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | 7 | ||||
1946 | Atlanta, G.A. | 11 | ||||
1946 | Surrender | 8 | ||||
1946 | Mabel! Mabel! | 12 | ||||
1947 | Across the Alley from the Alamo | 12 | ||||
1947 | That's My Desire (Woody Herman & the Four Chips) | 13 | ||||
1948 | Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) | 15 | ||||
1948 | Sabre Dance | 3 | ||||
1955 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 79 | ||||
1956 | I Don't Want Nobody (To Have My Love but You) | 75 |
Hits as charted albums
(Albums charting history with Billboard Magazine)
year | Album | Chart peak/ year end # | ||||
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Peak, US | Year end | |||||
1963 | Encore: Woody Herman – 1963 | 136 (Aug. 1963) |
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1964 | Woody Herman: 1964 | 148 (March 1963) |
Grammy Awards
Grammy Awards (albums)[63]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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1963 | Encore: Woody Herman, 1963 | Best Performance by an orchestra – for dancing | Nominated |
Best Jazz Performance – Large Group (Instrumental) | Won | ||
1964 | Woody Herman '64 | Nominated | |
1966 | Woody's Winners | Nominated | |
1967 | Woody Live – East And West | Nominated | |
1968 | Concerto For Herd | Nominated | |
1969 | Light My Fire | Nominated | |
1971 | Woody | Nominated | |
1973 | Giant Steps | Won | |
1974 | Thundering Herd | Won | |
1977 | The 40th Anniversary, Carnegie Hall Concert | Nominated | |
1982 | Live At The Concord Jazz Festival 1981 | Nominated | |
1984 | World Class | Nominated | |
1986 | 50th Anniversary Tour | Nominated | |
1987 | Woody's Gold Star | Nominated |
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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1987 | Woody Herman | Lifetime Achievement Award | Inducted
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Further awards and honors
- Honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Recording – 6805 Hollywood Blvd.)
- Woody Herman Music Archives established at the University of Houston School of Music, 1974
- Honorary doctorate, Berklee College of Music, 1977.
Discography
Studio albums
- Blues On Parade – Decca (1940)
- Sequence In Jazz – Columbia (1948)
- Swinging with the Woodchoppers – Columbia (1950)
- Blue Prelude – Coral (1950)
- At Carnegie Hall, 1946 Vol. I – MGM (1952)
- Woody Herman Goes Native – Mars (1953)
- Four Shades of Blue Columbia (1953)
- The 3 Herds Columbia (1954)
- Men From Mars London (1954)
- Music For Tired Lovers – Columbia (1955)
- Ridin' Herd – Columbia (1955)
- The Woody Herman Band! – Capitol (1955)
- Road Band! – Capitol (1955)
- HI FI-ing Herd – MGM (1955)
- Jackpot! – Capitol (1956)
- Blues Groove – Capitol (1956)
- Hi-Fi Drums – Capitol (1956)
- Twelve Shades of Blue Columbia (1955)
- Songs For Hip Lovers – Verve (1957)
- Woody Herman '58 featuring The Preacher (Verve, 1958)
- Jazz, The Utmost! – Columbia (1958)
- Moody Woody – Everest (1958)
- Herman's Heat & Puente's Beat! – Everest (1958)
- The Herd Rides Again – in Stereo – Everest (1958)
- The Fourth Herd – Jazzland (1960)
- The New Swingin' Herman Herd – Crown (1960)
- Woody Herman's Big New Herd – At The Monterey Jazz Festival Atlantic (1960)
- Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet – Philips (1962)
- Woody Herman–1963 – Philips (1962)
- Encore Woody Herman–1963 – Philips (1963)
- Hey! Heard The Herd? – Verve (1963)
- Woody Herman: 1964 – Philips (1964)
- The Swinging Herman Herd-Recorded Live – Philips (1964)
- Woody's Big Band Goodies – Philips (1965)
- Woody's Winners – Columbia (1965)
- My Kind of Broadway Columbia (1965)
- The Jazz Swinger – Columbia (1966)
- Woody Live East And West – Columbia (1967)
- Jazz Hoot – Columbia (1967)
- Concerto for Herd – At the Monterey Jazz Festival Atlantic (1968)
- Light My Fire – Cadet (1968)
- Somewhere – Cadet (1969)
- Heavy Exposure – Cadet (1970)
- Woody – Cadet (1970)
- Brand New – Fantasy (1971)
- The Raven Speaks – Fantasy (1972)
- Giant Steps – Fantasy (1973)
- Thundering Herd – Fantasy (1974)
- Herd At Montreux – Fantasy (1974)
- Children of Lima – Fantasy (1975)
- King Cobra – Fantasy (1976)
- The 40th Anniversary, Carnegie Hall Concert – RCA (1977)
- Road Father – Century (1978)
- Flip Phillips/Woody Herman – Together Century (1978)
- Chick, Donald, Walter, and Woodrow Century (1978)
- Woody Herman Presents A Concord Jam Volume 1 – Concord (1981)
- Feelin' So Blue – Fantasy (1981)
- Aurex Jazz Festival '82 – Eastworld/Toshiba (1982)
- Live At The Concord Jazz Festival – Concord (1982)
- Presents Volume 2 ...Four Others – Concord (1982)
- Rosemary Clooney/Woody Herman – My Buddy – Concord (1983)
- World Class – Concord (1984)
- 50th Anniversary Tour – Concord (1986)
- Woody's Gold Star – Concord (1987)
As sideman
- With Buck Clayton
- How Hi the Fi (Columbia, 1954)
- Jumpin' at the Woodside (Columbia, 1955)
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