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American trumpeter, big band leader

Harry James
James c. 1942
Born	Harry Haag James (1916-03-fifteen)March 15, 1916 Albany, Georgia, U.S.
Died	July five, 1983(1983-07-05) (aged 67) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.South.
Spouse(s)	Louise Tobin ​ ​ (m. 1935; div. 1943)​ Betty Grable ​ ​ (m. 1943; div. 1965)​ Joan Boyd ​ ​ (one thousand. 1968; div. 1970)​
Children	5
Musical career
Genres	Jazz big band swing
Occupation(s)	Musician bandleader trumpeter
Instruments	Trumpet
Years active	1933–1983
Labels	Brunswick Columbia Capitol MGM Dot
Associated acts	Frank Sinatra Ben Pollack Benny Goodman Buddy Rich Louie Bellson Helen Forrest
Musical artist

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July five, 1983)^[1] was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big ring from 1939 to 1946. He broke upwards his ring for a short menses in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active once again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency too as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the belatedly 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

Early on life [edit]

Texas Historical Commission'southward marking at the babyhood homesite of Harry James in Beaumont, Texas.

From left: Stan "Cuddles" Johnson, Fraser MacPherson, Bob Smith, Harry James, Al Johnson, Stew Barnett. (The Cave Supper Society, May 1970)

Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, United states of america,^[2] the son of Everett Robert James, a bandleader in a traveling circus, the Mighty Haag Circus, and Myrtle Maybelle (Stewart), an acrobat and horseback rider. He started performing with the circus at an early age, first as a contortionist at age of 4, so playing the snare pulsate in the ring from well-nigh the age of half-dozen.^[3] It was at this historic period that James was near trampled by the circus play a joke on horses later he wandered onto the circus runway as they were performing their stunts, but he was protected past his mother's pet horse, who stood over him until the other horses rushed by.^[4]

James started taking trumpet lessons from his begetter at age 8, and by age twelve he was leading the second band in the Christy Brothers Circus, for which his family was then working.^[iii] James'southward father placed him on a strict daily practice schedule. At each session he was given several pages to learn from the Arban's book and was not allowed to pursue any other pastime until he had learned them.^[5] While still a student at Dick Dowling Inferior High School, he participated as a regular fellow member of Beaumont High Schoolhouse'south Royal Royal Band, and in May 1931 he took get-go identify as trumpet soloist at the Texas Band Instructor's Association'due south Annual Eastern Division contest held in Temple, Texas.^{[half dozen]}

Career [edit]

In 1924, his family unit settled in Beaumont, Texas.^[vii] Information technology was here in the early 1930s that James began playing in local dance bands when he was fifteen years of age. James played regularly with Herman Waldman'due south band, and at one operation was noticed by nationally pop Ben Pollack.^[8] In 1935 he joined Pollack's band, but left at the start of 1937 to bring together Benny Goodman's orchestra, where he stayed through 1938. He was nicknamed "The Hawk" early in his career for his ability to sight-read. A common joke was that if a fly landed on his written music, Harry James would play it. His low range had a warmth associated with the cornet and fifty-fifty the flugelhorn, simply this sound was underrecorded in favor of James' brilliant high register.^[9]

With fiscal backing from Goodman,^[ten] James debuted his ain big band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January 1939, but it didn't click until adding a string section in 1941.^[11] Later on, known as Harry James and His Music Makers,^[12] it produced the striking "You Fabricated Me Beloved You", which peaked at no. 5 on Billboard's National Best Selling Retail Records chart for the week ending November eighteen, 1941. During its xviii-week chart run, the unmarried spent ten not-consecutive weeks in the Top Ten, from early November 1941 until late January 1942.^{[ commendation needed ]} He and his band appeared in iii Hollywood films: Individual Buckaroo and Springtime in the Rockies (both 1942), and Two Girls and a Crewman (1944). James toured with the band into the 1980s, and equally of July 2018 the Harry James Orchestra, led by Fred Radke, was still very much in business concern.^[13]

Bandleader [edit]

James' ring was the first high-profile orchestra to feature vocalist Frank Sinatra, who signed a i-year, $75 a calendar week contract with it in 1939, ($i,500 in 2020). James wanted to change Sinatra's name to 'Frankie Satin', just the singer refused.^[xiv] Sinatra just worked seven months earlier leaving to join Tommy Dorsey'southward outfit.^[15] The James band's featured female vocalist was Helen Forrest, and his afterward band included drummer Buddy Rich^[15] and bassist Thurman Teague.^{[16] [17]} Johnny MacAfee was featured on the sax and vocals, and Corky Corcoran was a youthful sax prodigy.

Radio [edit]

James' orchestra succeeded Glenn Miller's on a program sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes in 1942, when Miller disbanded his orchestra to enter the Ground forces. In 1945, James and his orchestra had a summer replacement program for Danny Kaye'due south program on CBS.^[18] He likewise led the orchestra for Phone call for Music, which was broadcast on CBS February 13, 1948 - April sixteen, 1948, and on NBC April 20, 1948 - June 29, 1948.^[19]

Film [edit]

James recorded many popular records and appeared in many Hollywood movies. He played trumpet in the 1950 film Young Human with a Horn,^[xx] dubbing Kirk Douglas. The album from the movie charted at #i, with James backing big band vocalist and actress Doris Solar day. James's recording of "I'thousand Beginning to See the Light" appears in the motion picture My Dog Skip (2000). His music is also featured in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters. James's recording of "Information technology's Been a Long, Long Time" is featured in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and in Curiosity's Avengers: Endgame. ^[21]

Musical style and reception [edit]

Influences [edit]

With James'due south childhood spent as a musician in a traveling circus, he picked up a flamboyant style that utilized such techniques as heavy vibrato, one-half valve and lip glissandi, valve and lip trills, and valve tremolos. These techniques were popular at the time in what was known as "hot" jazz, epitomized by James's idol Louis Armstrong, just somewhat fell out of favor by the 1950s with the advent of "cool" jazz.^[22] James'southward rigorous regime of practice equally a child resulted in an exceptional technical proficiency in the more classical techniques of range, fingering and tonguing. Growing upward in the S, James was also exposed to blues music, which had an additional influence on his style. Every bit James explained, "I was brought up in Texas with the dejection – when I was eleven or twelve years old down in what they phone call 'barbecue row' I used to sit in with the guys that had the broken bottlenecks on their guitars, playing the blues; that's all we knew."^[23] Later on hearing James solo on several numbers at a Benny Goodman 1-nighter, Armstrong enthused to his friend and Goodman vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, "That white male child – he plays like a jig!"^[24]

Move towards popular [edit]

Subsequently James left Benny Goodman's ring in 1939 to form his own band, he shortly found that leading a commercially viable musical group required a broader set up of skills than those needed to be a gifted musician playing in someone else'southward band. The James ring ran into fiscal trouble, and it became increasingly hard for James to pay salaries and go on the band together. In 1940, James lost his contract with Columbia Records (he returned in 1941), and Frank Sinatra left the band that January. It was not long subsequently this that James made a pivotal decision: he would adopt a "sweeter" mode that added strings to the ring, and the ring would deliver tunes that were in more of a "pop" vein and less true to its jazz roots. From a commercial standpoint, the conclusion paid off as James soon enjoyed a cord of chart topping hits that provided commercial success for him and his band. Indeed, a U.S. Treasury report released in 1945 listed Harry James and Betty Grable as the highest-paid couple in the nation.^[25]

While James remained commercially successful and personally committed to his music, some critics sought to find fault. In Peter Levinson's 1999 biography, Dan Morgenstern, the respected critic and Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, called the 1941 release of the latter Grammy Hall of Fame inducted "You Made Me Honey You" "the tape that the jazz critics never forgave Harry James for recording."^[26] With James continuing to utilize his flamboyant style on pop hits through the 1940s, his playing was often labeled as "schmaltzy"^[27] and dismissed by the critics, although radio discs from this period reveal James's continued commitment to jazz. James's jazz releases during this menses, while non as numerous, include a variety of modern arrangements from Neal Hefti, Frank Devenport, Johnny Richards and Jimmy Mundy that often inspired his musicians, and every bit bop surpassed swing by the late 1940s, James was surprisingly open to its influence.^[28]

Return to Big Band jazz [edit]

Publicity photo of James, c. 1975

After coasting through the mid-1950s, James made a complete reevaluation of where he was heading in his musical career. Count Basie provided the impetus past making a significant comeback with his newly formed "sixteen Men Swinging" band, and James wanted a band with a decided Basie flavor.^[29] James signed with Capitol Records in 1955, and two years subsequently, after releasing new studio versions of many of his previously released songs from Columbia Records, James recorded ten new tracks for an anthology entitled Wild About Harry!. This anthology was the first in a series released on Capitol, and continuing later on MGM, representative of the Basie way that James adopted during this period, with some of the arrangements provided by erstwhile Basie saxophonist and arranger Ernie Wilkins, whom James hired for his ain band.^[xxx]

While James never completely regained favor with jazz critics during his lifetime in spite of his return to more jazz-oriented releases in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, contemporary opinion of his work has shifted. Recent reissues such as Capitol's 2012 7-disc set The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series: Gene Krupa and Harry James have prompted new, more favorable analyses. In 2014, Marc Myers of JazzWax commented, "[James'due south] ring of the mid-1940s was more than modern than most of the majors, and in 1949 he led one of the finest bands of the yr." And on James'southward releases from 1958 to 1961, Myers noted, "The James band during this period has been eclipsed past bands led by Basie, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton. While each served upward its own brand of magnificence, James produced more consistently brilliant tracks than the others... virtually everything James recorded during this period was an uncompromising, swinging gem."^[31]

James felt strongly most the music he both played and recorded. In 1972 while in London, he did an interview with the English jazz critic Steve Voce, who asked if the biggest audience was for the commercial numbers he had recorded. James visibly bristled, replying "That would depend on for whom you are playing. If you lot're playing for a jazz audience, I'thousand pretty sure that some of the jazz things we practise would be a lot more than pop than 'Sleepy Lagoon,' and if we're playing at a country club or playing Vegas, in which we accept many, many types of people, then I'm sure that 'Sleepy Lagoon' would be more than popular at that particular time. But I really get bugged about these people talking virtually commercial tunes, considering to me, if y'all're gonna be commercial, you're gonna stand on your caput and make funny noises and do idiotic things. I don't recall nosotros've ever recorded or played one tune that I didn't peculiarly dearest to play. Otherwise, I wouldn't play it."^[32]

Personal life [edit]

James was married iii times, first to singer Louise Tobin on May iv, 1935, with whom he had ii sons, Harry Jeffrey James (b. 1941) and Timothy Ray James (b. 1942).^[33] They divorced in 1943.^[3] Subsequently that yr he married actress Betty Grable. They had ii daughters, Victoria Elizabeth (b. 1944) and Jessica (b. 1947), before divorcing in 1965. In December 1967^{[34] [35]} James wednesday Las Vegas showgirl Joan Boyd. The couple had a son, Michael (b. 1968), earlier divorcing in 1970.

James endemic several Thoroughbred racehorses that won races such equally the California Breeders' Champion Stakes (1951) and the San Vicente Stakes (1954). He was also a founding investor in the Atlantic City Race Course. His knowledge of horse racing was demonstrated during a 1958 appearance on The Lucy–Desi Comedy 60 minutes entitled "Lucy Wins A Racehorse".^[36]

James was a heavy smoker, drinker and gambler.^[37] In 1983 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, but connected to work. He played his last professional person job, with the Harry James Orchestra, on June 26, 1983 in Los Angeles,^[33] dying simply ix days later in Las Vegas, Nevada^[38] on July 5, 1983 at age 67. Frank Sinatra gave the eulogy at his funeral, held in Las Vegas.^[37]

Filmography [edit]

• Hollywood Hotel (1937) (as himself, in Benny Goodman's ring)
• Syncopation (1942) (as himself)
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942) (every bit himself)
• Individual Buckaroo (1942) (equally himself)
• Swing Fever (1943) (equally himself)
• Best Foot Forward (1943) (as himself)
• Bathing Beauty (1944) (every bit himself)
• Two Girls and a Crewman (1944) (as himself)
• Do You Love Me (1946)
• If I'g Lucky (1946)
• Carnegie Hall (1947) (equally himself)
• I'll Get By (1950) (as himself)
• The Benny Goodman Story (1956) (equally himself)
• The Reverse Sex (1956) (every bit himself)
• Outlaw Queen (1957)
• Riot in Rhythm (1957) (short subject; equally himself)
• The Big Beat (1958)
• The Ladies Man (1961) (as himself)
• The Sting 2 (1983)

Discography [edit]

The discography of Harry James includes 30 studio albums, 47 EPs, 3 soundtrack/stage and screen albums, and numerous live albums and compilation albums, along with contributions equally sideman and appearances with other musicians.^{[39] [40]} James released over 200 singles during his career, with ix songs reaching number one, 32 in the top ten, and 70 in the top 100 on the U.S. pop charts, likewise equally 7 charting on the U.Due south. R&B chart.^{[a] [41] [42] [43]}

Notes

1. ^ At the time of James's charts, Billboard magazine referred to the R&B chart as "The Harlem Hit Parade."

Selected singles [edit]

• "Ain't She Sweet"
• "All or Nothing at All" (1939)
• "Dorsum Beat Boogie" (1939) (Columbia 35456)^[44]
• "Blues in the Nighttime" (1941) (Columbia 36500)^[45]
• "Boo-Woo" (1939) (Brunswick 8318/B24060, Columbia 35958/C44-i)
• "Cheek to Cheek"
• "Ciribiribin" (1939) – another million selling disc^[46]
• "Cry Me a River"
• "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (with the Skylarks)
• "Flight of the Bumblebee"
• "Hernando's Hideaway" (1955)
• "Honeysuckle Rose"
• "I Cried for You" (1942)
• "I Don't Want to Walk Without Yous" (1942)
• "I Had the Craziest Dream" – a 1000000 selling gold disc.^[47]
• "I'll Exist Around"
• "I'll Get By (As Long every bit I Take You lot)" (1940)
• "I Need Yous Now"
• "It All Depends on You lot"
• "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (1945)
• "I've Heard That Vocal Before" (1942) – another million selling record.^[48]
• "Life Goes to a Party"
• "Manhattan"
• "The Mole"
• "My Buddy" (1939)
• "Oh My Pa-Pa (O Mein Papa)"
• "The Nearness of You"
• "One O'Clock Jump" (1938) – James' first million seller^[49]
• "Sing, Sing, Sing" (1937)
• "Sleepy Lagoon" (1942)
• "Somebody Loves Me"
• "That One-time Feeling"
• "As well Marvelous for Words" (1943)
• "Truly" (with Gilda Maiken and The Skylarks)
• "Trumpet Blues and Cantabile"
• "(Up a) Lazy River"
• "Velvet Moon"
• "When Your Lover Has Gone" (1944)
• "Where or When"
• "Woo-Woo" (1939) (Brunswick 8318/B24061, Columbia 35958/C44-ii)
• "You Made Me Beloved You" (1941) – a million selling gold disc.^[47]
• "You've Changed" (1941)

Selected albums [edit]

• Boogie Woogie (Columbia C44, 1941, compilation)^[50]
• Swain with a Horn (Columbia CL 6106, 1950)^[51]
• Jazz Session (Columbia CL 669, 1955)^[52]
• Wild Near Harry! (Capitol T/ST 874, 1957)^[53]
• The New James (Capitol T/ST 1037, 1958)^[54]
• Harry's Selection! (Capitol T/ST 1093, 1958)^[55]
• Trumpet Rhapsody And Other Great Instrumentals (Harmony HL 7162, 1959)
• Harry James and His New Swingin' Ring (MGM E/SE 3778, 1959)^[56]
• Harry James...Today! (MGM Eastward/SE 3848, 1960)^[57]
• The Spectacular Sound of Harry James (MGM East/SE 3897, 1961)^[58]
• Harry James Plays Neal Hefti (MGM E/SE 3972, 1961)^[59]
• Requests On-The-Road (MGM E/SE 4003, 1962)^[threescore]
• The Male monarch James Version (Sheffield Lab LAB-3, 1976)^[61]
• Comin' From A Adept Identify (Sheffield Lab LAB-6, 1977)^[62]
• However Harry Afterward All These Years (Sheffield Lab LAB-11, 1979)^[63]
• Snooty Fruity (Columbia CK 45447, 1990)^[64]
• Record Session '39–'42 (Hep CD1068 [Scotland], 1999)^[65]
• Feet Draggin' Blues '44–'47 (Hep CD62 [England], 1999)^[66]

Awards [edit]

Grammy Hall of Fame [edit]

As of 2016, two recordings of Harry James had been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

Harry James Grammy Hall of Fame Awards^[67]

Year recorded	Championship	Genre	Label	Year inducted
1942	Trumpet Dejection and Cantabile	Jazz (Album)	Columbia	1999
1941	Yous Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)	Popular (Unmarried)	Columbia	2010

Readers' polls [edit]

Metronome magazine conducted almanac readers' polls ranking the summit jazz musician on each instrument. The winners were invited to bring together an ensemble known as the Metronome All-Stars that was assembled for studio recordings. The studio sessions were held in the years 1939–42, 1946–53, and 1956, and typically resulted in two tracks which allowed each participant a one chorus solo. Harry James was called to play trumpet with the Metronome All-Stars in 1939, 1940 and 1941.

A similar annual readers' poll conducted by Downbeat magazine selected James as the best trumpet instrumentalist for the years 1937,^[68] 1938^[69] and 1939,^[70] and as favorite soloist for 1942.^[71]

Honors and inductions [edit]

For his contribution to the motion movie industry James was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6683 Hollywood Boulevard on Feb 8, 1960.^[72]

He was inducted into the Big Ring and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1983.

Writings [edit]

• Harry James Studies & Improvisations for Trumpet, Harry James, ed. Elmer F. Gottschalk, New York: Robbins Music, 1939
• Harry James Trumpet Method, Harry James, Everette James, ed. Jay Arnold, New York: Robbins Music, 1941

See also [edit]

• Al Lerner (composer)
• Dick Haymes
• Jack Gardner

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External links [edit]

• The Harry James Orchestra – Official Site
• Harry James at IMDb
• Harry James at Observe a Grave
• The Human With The Horn – A Biography of Harry James

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