威利·丹尼斯 Willie Dennis

Willie Dennis(néWilliam DeBerardinis, January 10, 1926,Philadelphia– July 8, 1965,New York City) was an Americanjazztrombonistknown as abig bandmusician but who was also an influentialbebopsoloist.

After working with Elliot Lawrence, Claude Thornhill, and Sam Donahue, Dennis also performed with Charles Mingus, appearing on two of Mingus's more successful albums in 1959, Blues & Roots and Mingus Ah Um. In 1953, Dennis recorded Four Trombones (released in 1957) for Mingus's Debut Records. The other three trombones were J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding and Bennie Green.

The fullest recorded example of Dennis's solo work, however, is on a little-known 1956 Savoy disc by English pianist Ronnie Ball (like Dennis, a student of Lennie Tristano), All About Ronnie, in the company of Ted Brown, Wendell Marshall and Kenny Clarke.

In the late 1950s Dennis returned to his big band roots, joining Buddy Rich in 1959 after stints with Benny Goodman, (with whom he travelled to the Soviet Union in 1962) and Woody Herman.

In the 1960s, Dennis also performed often with Gerry Mulligan.

He married singer Morgana King in 1961. They had no children.

They had only been married for a few years when he died in 1965 in an automobile accident in Central Park, New York City.[26][27]

Dennis was renowned for his extremely fast articulation on the trombone, obtained by means of varying the natural harmonics of the instrument with minimal recourse to the slide (a technique known as "against the grain").

WithCannonball Adderley

WithManny Albam

WithAl Cohn

WithMundell Lowe

WithGary McFarland

WithCharles Mingus

WithGerry Mulligan

WithOliver Nelson

WithAnita O'Day

WithBuddy Rich

WithShirley Scott

WithZoot Sims

WithPhil Woods

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