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Birth name
  
Victor Dickenson

Years active
  
1920s-1950s

Genres
  
Name
  
Vic Dickenson

Occupation(s)
  
Trombonist

Role
  
Trombonist

Instruments
  

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Born
  
August 6, 1906Xenia, Ohio, United States (
1906-08-06
)

Associated acts
  
Count BasieSidney BechetEarl Hines

Died
  
November 16, 1984, New York City, New York, United States

Music groups
  
Count Basie Orchestra (1940 – 1941), World's Greatest Jazz Band

Albums
  
The Jazz Giants '56, Coleman Hawkins All Stars, The Dixieland All Stars, Gentleman of the Trombone, Five Classic Albums P

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Victor Dickenson (August 6, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was an African-American jazz trombonist. His career began in the 1920s and continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie (1940–41), Sidney Bechet (1941), and Earl Hines.

Contents

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Life and career

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Born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1906, Dickenson wanted to be a plasterer like his father, but he abandoned the idea after injuring himself by falling off a ladder. He studied organ from 1922, then changed to performing trombone with local bands. He made his recording debut in December 1930 as a vocalist with Luis Russell's band. He joined Blanche Calloway's orchestra in the early 1930s. He led his own groups both on the east and west coast between 1947 and the mid-1950s.

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From then he was a session man. He appeared on the television program The Sound of Jazz in 1957 with Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, and Billie Holiday. He also recorded as a sideman with Jimmy Rushing (on Vanguard Records), Coleman Hawkins (Capitol), Pee Wee Russell (Black Lion), Benny Carter (Bluebird and Black & Blue), Lester Young (Blue Note and Verve), Count Basie (Columbia and Pablo), Sidney Bechet (Bluebird, Black & Blue, and Blue Note). In 1953, he recorded The Vic Dickenson Showcase for Vanguard with Ed Hall on clarinet and Ruby Braff on trumpet.

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Dickenson was a member of "The World's Greatest Jazz Band", the house band at The Roosevelt Grill in New York City. He also performed at the same venue in a smaller group that featured him alongside trumpeter Bobby Hackett.

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Dickenson is in Art Kane's photograph, A Great Day in Harlem, which includes trombonist Miff Mole.

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For all his lively musical talent, Dickenson was a laconic man who often liked to be alone between sets. During his long association with bands at Eddie Condon's, he would often retire to a single chair that sat in a small alcove outside the men's room, instead of gathering with fellow musicians in the band room. When men mistook him for the men's room attendant and offered him money, he took it.

Vic Dickenson Gentleman of the Trombone Vic Dickenson Songs Reviews Credits

Dickenson died in New York City in 1984 at the age of 78 as a result of cancer.

As leader/co-leader

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  • Vic Dickenson Showcase, Vol. 1 (Vanguard, 1953)
  • Vic Dickenson Showcase, Vol. 2 (Vanguard, 1954)
  • Vic Dickenson Septet, Vol. 1 (Vanguard, 1954)
  • Vic Dickenson Septet, Vol. 2 (Vanguard, 1954)
  • Vic Dickenson Septet, Vol. 3 (Vanguard, 1954)
  • Vic Dickenson Septet, Vol. 4 (Vanguard, 1954)
  • Vic's Boston Story (Storyville, 1957)
  • Mainstream (Koch Jazz, 1958)
  • Newport Jazz Festival All Stars (Atlantic, 1959 [1960]) with Buck Clayton, George Wein, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Champ Jones and Jake Hanna
  • In Holland (Riff, 1974)
  • French Festival (Nice, France 1974) (Classic Jazz Music, 1974)
  • Gentleman of the Trombone (Storyville, 1975)
  • Vic Dickenson Quintet (SLP, 1976)
  • Plays Bessie Smith: Trombone Cholly (Gazell, 1976)
  • Roy Eldridge & Vic Dickenson With Eddie Locke & His Friends (Storyville, 1978)
  • New York Axis: Phil Wilson & Vic Dickenson (Famous Door, 1980)
  • Just Friends (Sackville, 1985)
  • Live at Music Room (Valley Vue, 1996)
  • Backstage with Bobby Hackett: Milwaukee 1951 (Jasmine, 2000)
  • Swing That Music (Black & Blue, 2002)
  • As sideman

    With Buster Bailey
  • All About Memphis (Felsted, 1958)
  • With Coleman Hawkins

  • Coleman Hawkins All Stars (Swingville, 1960) with Joe Thomas
  • With Johnny Hodges

  • Blues-a-Plenty (Verve, 1958)
  • With Langston Hughes

  • Weary Blues (MGM, 1959)
  • With Budd Johnson
  • Blues a la Mode (Felsted, 1958)
  • With Dicky Wells
  • Bones for the King (Felsted, 1958)
  • Trombone Four-in-Hand (Felsted, 1959)
  • With Joe Williams

  • A Night at Count Basie's (Vanguard, 1956)
  • With Lester Young

  • The Jazz Giants '56 (Verve, 1956)
  • References

    Vic Dickenson Wikipedia


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