FATS PICHON

 








Walter G. “Fats” Pichon ( * 3 de April de 1906 in Nueva Orleans ; † 25 de February de 1967 in Chicago ) is a pianista, cantante , arreglista and compositor de jazz americano estadounidense .

Fats Pichon in the ancient casa de absentia, in 1950

Vida y trabajo

Walter Pichon was born in New Orleans and learned to play the piano as a child. As a teenager he also played the baritone horn in the city's brass bands , and from 1920 onwards he was a professional musician. In 1922 he moved to the north of the USA, where he performed in the city of New York and New Jersey , before studying in Boston and at the Conservatory of Music in New England . After extensive tours of the USA and Mexico with the Eleven Aces in the mid-1920s, he returned to his hometown and performed there with his own bands in dance halls and on Mississippi river steamers until 1928, including with Sidney Desvigne . During a guest performance in New York at the end of 1928, he made his first recordings under his own name, mostly as a vocalist with Novedad numbers, accompanied by Luis Russell and other groups in Nueva Orleans.







In the years 1930, Fats Pichon formed his own big band in New Orleans, with which he also played on riverboats; his musicians included the young Dave Bartholomew . However, no recordings were made with this band. In Texas he played with the Dusky Stevedores (1929), then with Elmer Snowden and Fess Williams (1931) in New York, and in 1935 in Memphis Bajo he went on tour with Mamie Smith .

In the decade of 1940, the pianist's long house was in the old house of the farm , a popular era on calle Bourbon in the French Quarter that ended in 1960, interrupted by occasional tours of the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1951, Pinchon took on the role of Eddie the Waiter , replacing comedian Eddie Green, in a weekly NBC radio comedy ( Duffy's Tavern ). Due to deteriorating eyesight, he rarely appeared in the 1960s. Pichon only occasionally recorded under his own name throughout his career; The canciones were created in 1929 in a trio with Red Allen and Teddy Bunn , in 1946 they were reproduced in unaccompanied solos, four more pieces in 1947 in a trio (for DeLuxe) and most recently a trio album for Decca Records in 1956.










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