Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer

Shadow Wilson

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American jazz drummer
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
Is:
Jazz musician
Work field:
Music
Birth:
25 September 1919(Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA)
Death:
11 July 1959(New York City, New York, USA)
Star sign:
Libra
Genres:
Jazz
Instruments:
Drum kit
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Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson (September 25, 1919 – July 11, 1959) was an American jazz drummer.

Much of Wilson's early work was with swing jazz orchestras. He played withFrankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra in 1936, with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this, with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Woody Herman. Later in his career, he played with Illinois Jacquet, Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Newman, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, and Tadd Dameron. The drummer was known to sit in at the famed Minton's Playhouse. His nickname came from "his beautiful light touch with brushes," in the words of bassist Peter Ind. Wilson died of meningitis in July 1959. He never recorded as a leader.

Discography

As sideman

With Thelonious Monk

  • Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland, 1957)
  • Mulligan Meets Monk (Riverside, 1957)
  • Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland, 1961)
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note, 2005)

With Joe Newman

  • All I Wanna Do Is Swing (RCA Victor, 1955)
  • The Count's Men (Jazztone, 1955)
  • I'm Still Swinging (RCA Victor, 1956)
  • I Feel Like a Newman (Storyville, 1956)
  • Swing Lightly (Jazztone, 1957)

With Sonny Stitt

  • Sonny Stitt Plays (Roost, 1955)
  • Sonny Stitt Sonny Stitt Sonny Stitt Sonny Stitt (Roost, 1956)
  • Kaleidoscope (Prestige, 1957)
  • Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (Vogue, 1964)

With others