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Arthur Parker Whetsel (February 22, 1905[1] [2] Duke Ellington 's Washingtonians.[3]
Biography
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Arthur Whetsel was born in Punta Gorda, Florida , one of two children of the Reverend Oscar N. Whetsel, an elder in the Seventh-day Adventist Church , originally of Piqua, Ohio , and Lucy W. Parker, a schoolteacher originally from Marion County, Alabama . After Oscar Whetsel's death in 1906, his widow married the Reverend Lewis Charles Sheafe (1859–1938), who was the leading African American minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the early twentieth century.[4]
Arthur Whetsel grew up in Los Angeles, California , where he started playing the cornet at the age of eight.[5] Washington, D.C. , where, after playing in a number of bands and stage shows, he became one of the members of Duke Ellington 's first band, The Washingtonians; and was present, on July 26, 1923, in New York City when The Washingtonians, billed as Snowden's Novelty Orchestra with Elmer Snowden on banjo and saxophone , Ellington on piano , Whetsel on trumpet , Sonny Greer on drums and vocals and Otto Hardwick on clarinet made a "trial recording" at the Victor Talking Machine Company ; it was Ellington's first visit to a recording studio.[6]
Leaving the band in 1923 to study medicine, he returned in 1928 to perform on a number of Ellington's most recognizable pieces during Ellington's stint at the Cotton Club , including "Black Beauty", "Black and Tan", and "Mood Indigo ". His sound provided a contrast with Bubber Miley , Ellington's other trumpeter during the period. He had a unique broad open tone of ample depth and sonority despite the elegant, soft quality of his muted play.
Whetsel's behavior became erratic in 1938, and after an incident where he "went haywire" during a gig at Rutgers University , he was replaced by trumpeter Wallace Jones .[7] Central Islip Psychiatric Center ) in Suffolk County, New York , where he died in May 1940.[8]
He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York .
References
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^ The Rough Guide to Jazz Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian; Alexander, Charles
^ "Lewis C. Sheafe: Apostle to Black America," at http://www.lcsheafe.net/
^ "Arthur Whetsol Buried," (Pittsburgh) Courier, May 11, 1940, 21.
^ "Swing » Jazz Blues Club" . Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2014-03-07 .
^ "Talk o'Town," (Pittsburgh) Courier , March 5, 1938, 9
^ 1940 Federal census for Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York [Suffolk County Enumeration District 52, Sheet 129-B]
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Harlem Jazz, 1930
Ellingtonia, Vol. One
Ellingtonia, Vol. Two
Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year
The Blanton–Webster Band
Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
Smoke Rings
Liberian Suite
Great Times!
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Ellington Uptown
The Duke Plays Ellington
Ellington '55
Dance to the Duke!
Ellington Showcase
Historically Speaking
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The Complete Porgy and Bess
A Drum Is a Woman
Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956
Such Sweet Thunder
Studio Sessions 1957 & 1962
Ellington Indigos
Black, Brown and Beige
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The Cosmic Scene
Happy Reunion
Jazz Party
Anatomy of a Murder
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Unknown Session
Piano in the Foreground
Paris Blues
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Midnight in Paris
Studio Sessions, New York 1962
Afro-Bossa
The Symphonic Ellington
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My People
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Ellington '66
Concert in the Virgin Islands
The Popular Duke Ellington
Far East Suite
The Jaywalker
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