{"id":180,"date":"2021-02-21T20:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/?p=180"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:09:22","slug":"buddy-william-marcel-collette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Buddy (William Marcel) Collette"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"infobox vcard plainlist\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">\n<div class=\"fn\">Buddy Collette<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a class=\"image\" title=\"Buddy Collette in 1985\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Buddy_Collette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4c\/Buddy_Collette.jpg\/220px-Buddy_Collette.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4c\/Buddy_Collette.jpg\/330px-Buddy_Collette.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4c\/Buddy_Collette.jpg\/440px-Buddy_Collette.jpg 2x\" alt=\"Buddy Collette in 1985\" width=\"220\" height=\"337\" data-file-width=\"446\" data-file-height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Buddy Collette in 1985<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Background information<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"nowrap\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Birth name<\/span><\/th>\n<td class=\"nickname\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">William Marcel Collette<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Born<\/span><\/th>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">August 6, 1921<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Los Angeles, California, U.S.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Died<\/span><\/th>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">September 19, 2010\u00a0(aged\u00a089)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Genres<\/span><\/th>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jazz,\u00a0West Coast jazz,\u00a0cool jazz<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"nowrap\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Occupation(s)<\/span><\/th>\n<td class=\"role\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Musician, educator<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Instruments<\/span><\/th>\n<td class=\"note\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Flute, saxophone, clarinet<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Labels<\/span><\/th>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Contemporary, Challenge,\u00a0Mode,\u00a0EmArcy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><span class=\"nowrap\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Associated acts<\/span><\/th>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Chico Hamilton<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Collette#As_leader\/co-leader\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Collette, Buddy (William Marcel), 6.8.1921 Los Angeles &#8211; 19.9.2010 Los Angeles; fl, sax, cl<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Collette studierte Klavier und Altsaxofon, bevor er in verschiedenen Orchestern spielte und 1940 selbst als Bandleader t\u00e4tig wurde. W\u00e4hrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs leitete er ein Tanzorchester, um nach dem Krieg im Raum Los Angeles mit den Stars of Swing, Lucky Thompson. Charles Mingus, Luis Jordan, Benny Carter und Gerald Wilson zu arbeiten. 1955 wurde er Mitglied des Chico Hamilton Quintets. ln den 60ern spielte er u. a. mit Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk und Stan Kenton. ln den 70ern zog er sich mehr auf die Felder Komposition und Arrangement zur\u00fcck, schrieb Soundtracks, legte zwei Songb\u00fccher auf und arbeitete bis 1980 an seiner Autobiografie.1989 nahm er mit seinem Sch\u00fcler James Newton auf. Er lehrte an mehreren Universit\u00e4ten, war &#8222;Executive Director&#8220; des Jazz Preservation lnstitute und k\u00fcnstlerischer Leiter des Jazz-Ratgeberprogramms &#8222;Jazz America&#8220;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>(ug &#8211; Reclam Jazzlexikon)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Buddy Collette<\/b>\u00a0(geb\u00fcrtig:\u00a0<i>William Marcel Collette<\/i>; *\u00a06. August\u00a01921\u00a0in\u00a0Los Angeles,\u00a0Kalifornien; \u2020\u00a019. September\u00a02010\u00a0ebenda<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>) war ein\u00a0US-amerikanischer\u00a0Jazzmusiker\u00a0(Tenorsaxophon,\u00a0Fl\u00f6te\u00a0und\u00a0Klarinette), der gro\u00dfen Einfluss auf den\u00a0West-Coast-Jazz\u00a0hatte und\u00a0Lehrer\u00a0wichtiger\u00a0Musiker war.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Leben_und_Karriere\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Leben und Karriere<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Im Alter von 12 Jahren begann Collette auf dem Altsaxophon und leitete seine erste\u00a0Jazzband, zu der\u00a0Britt Woodman\u00a0auf der Posaune und\u00a0Charles Mingus\u00a0am Bass geh\u00f6rten. Mit 17 Jahren wurde er professioneller Musiker. Nach dem Wehrdienst als Bandleader bei der US-Marine arbeitete er mit den\u00a0<i>Stars of Swing<\/i>\u00a0(zu denen Woodman, Mingus und\u00a0Lucky Thompson\u00a0geh\u00f6rten). Mit dem Saxophonisten\u00a0Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus und\u00a0Chico Hamilton\u00a0spielte er dann\u00a0Bebop\u00a0in Los Angeles. Er war einer der ersten\u00a0Fl\u00f6tisten\u00a0des Modern Jazz. In den fr\u00fchen 1950ern arbeitete er als Studiomusiker und war der erste afroamerikanische Musiker, der im Fernsehen auftrat (im Programm von\u00a0Groucho Marx\u00a0<i>You Bet Your Life<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">1955 war er Gr\u00fcndungsmitglied des legend\u00e4ren Quintetts von Chico Hamilton mit dem Gitarristen\u00a0Jim Hall\u00a0und dem Cellisten\u00a0Fred Katz. 1956 nahm er sein erstes Album als Bandleader auf\u00a0<i>(Man of Many Parts)<\/i>. Seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Saxophonisten Dexter Gordon, dem Schlagzeuger Chico Hamilton und seinem langj\u00e4hrigen Freund Charles Mingus (<i>Mingus at Monterey<\/i>, 1964) begr\u00fcndete seine Stellung innerhalb der Jazzszene von Los Angeles ebenso wie sein fr\u00fches Eintreten f\u00fcr eine Vereinigung der zun\u00e4chst nach Hautfarbe getrennten lokalen Musikergewerkschaft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Im Unterschied zu anderen einflussreichen Musikern des\u00a0West-Coast-Jazz\u00a0blieb Collette in Kalifornien, wo er in den Studios arbeitete und zus\u00e4tzlich jedes Wochenende mit seinem Quintett spielte und aufnahm, aber auch andere Holzbl\u00e4ser ausbildete. Zu seinen Sch\u00fclern geh\u00f6ren\u00a0Eric Dolphy,\u00a0Charles Lloyd,\u00a0Frank Morgan,\u00a0Sonny Criss\u00a0und\u00a0James Newton. Nur gelegentlich unternahm er Europatourneen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">1996 beauftragte ihn die\u00a0Library of Congress\u00a0mit der Komposition und Auff\u00fchrung eines\u00a0Big-Band-Konzerts. Seit einem Schlaganfall 1998 konnte er nicht mehr als Musiker auftreten, blieb aber in Los Angeles als Jazzlehrer aktiv (unter anderem mit Kinderprogrammen). Collette war zudem in der\u00a0B\u00fcrgerrechtsbewegung\u00a0sehr aktiv.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span id=\"Autobiographische_Buchver.C3.B6ffentlichung\"><\/span><span id=\"Autobiographische_Buchver\u00f6ffentlichung\" class=\"mw-headline\">Autobiographische Buchver\u00f6ffentlichung<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Buddy Collette, Steven Louis Isoardi:\u00a0<i>Jazz Generations: A Life in American Music and Society<\/i>. New York, London: Continuum 2000;\u00a0ISBN 978-0826447210<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Collette\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Early_life[1]\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Early life<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">William Marcel Collette was born in Los Angeles on August 6, 1921. He was raised in\u00a0Watts, surrounded by people of all different ethnicities. He lived in a house built by his father in an area with cheap, plentiful land. The neighborhood in which he grew up was called Central Gardens area. For elementary school, he attended Ninety-sixth Street School because it allowed black students. Other schools in the area, such as South Gate Junior High School, did not and Collette often felt odd entering areas primarily inhabited by whites. Collette&#8217;s family did not have a lot of money, but his childhood gave him the chance to mix with all sorts of different people. The \u201cmelting pot\u201d of Watts framed the way he saw his position as a black man in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Buddy Collette began playing piano at age ten, at his grandmother&#8217;s request. His love for music came not only from his community, but from his parents\u2014his father played piano and his mother sang. In middle school, he began playing the saxophone. That same year, he formed his first band with Charlie Martin, Vernon Slater, Crosby Lewis, and Minor Robinson. They played the music of\u00a0Dootsie Williams, which Collette&#8217;s parents had received while at a party. The following year, Collette started a band with Ralph Bledsoe and Raleigh Bledsoe. Together they played for less than a dollar each at parties put on by people in the area on Saturday nights. Following this, Collette started a third group which eventually included Charles Mingus on bass. Collette and Mingus became very good friends and Collette helped Mingus find his less wild, more reserved side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">During his childhood, Collette had plenty of musicians to look up to. William Jr., Coney, Britt, and George Woodman were the sons of trombonist, William Woodman. Their ability to play gigs and make money while still in high school was inspiring to musicians like Collette, who were a few years younger. When he was fifteen, Collette became a part of the Woodman brothers\u2019 band, along with\u00a0Joe Comfort,\u00a0George Reed, and Jessie Sailes. Collette credits the Woodman brothers with finding the jazz sound of Watts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Music_career\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Music career<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">During his first couple years of high school, Collette began traveling to Los Angeles in order to form connections with other musicians. At the Million Dollar Theatre, he and his band competed in a battle of the bands, but lost to a band that included\u00a0Jackie Kelson, Chico Hamilton, and Al Adams. Afterwards, Collette was asked to join the winning band, making twenty-one dollars per week. Later, Charles Mingus joined this band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">At the age of 19, Collette started taking musical lessons from Lloyd Reese, who also taught Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and many others. Collette credits Reese with teaching him and the other musicians how to manage themselves in the music world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">During World War II, Collette served with the U.S. Navy band attached to the pre-flight school at St. Mary&#8217;s College. Led by\u00a0Marshal Royal, it was one of two regimental bands of African-American musicians. From that band of 45 musicians, two dance bands were formed, the first being the Bombardiers, led by Royal. The second dance band, the Topflighters, was led by Collette, who had been playing with\u00a0Les Hite\u2019s band in 1941 before enlisting. His memoir records a trip that he, Bill Douglass, and\u00a0Charles Mingus made from Los Angeles to San Francisco in October 1942, after hearing that a Navy officer was recruiting musicians from the union there to serve in an all-black band that would be stationed at St. Mary\u2019s. Both Mingus and Douglass changed their minds, however. Douglass was later drafted by the Army; Mingus got re-classified 4-F. Collette, like most black Navy bandsmen, was trained at Camp Robert Smalls, at the Great Lakes, Chicago, complex of Navy bases.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to Collette, he formed the second dance band at St. Mary&#8217;s after he refused to join the Bombardiers on baritone sax, and along with most of the remaining fellows in the marching band realized that the dance band service was much easier than general musicians duty. Also in his band were Orlando Stallings on saxophone; James Ellison, Myers Franchot Alexander and Henry Godfrey on trumpet; George Lewis on first trombone; Ralph Thomas on bass tuba; and a few fellows he recalls only by nickname: \u201cthe Indian\u201d on bass; \u201cthe Spider\u201d and \u201cthe Crow\u201d on tenor saxophones.<sup id=\"cite_ref-auto_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Both dance bands played gigs at the Stage Door Canteen, the USO in San Francisco that featured 24-hour service and entertainment, as featured acts and as back-ups to the stars that were performing there, usually unannounced, when they were in the San Francisco area.<sup id=\"cite_ref-auto_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Willie Humphrey, a New Orleans Dixieland jazz legend, joined the marching band late. Collette recalls that Marshal Royal didn\u2019t realize who he was and wasn\u2019t that interested in Dixieland, so Collette was able to get him into the Topflighters and subsequently arranged songs to highlight Humphrey\u2019s talent.<sup id=\"cite_ref-auto_3-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Collette and others from St. Mary\u2019s also played at clubs around San Francisco, especially in Oakland and at Redwood City, south of San Francisco, while in the Navy. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in uniform, you\u2019re not supposed to be working outside,\u201d he writes, \u201cso we would get in civilian clothes\u2013it was such a good job.\u201d<sup id=\"cite_ref-auto_3-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">After serving as a U.S. Navy band leader, he played with the Stars of Swing (Woodman, Mingus, and Lucky Thompson),\u00a0Louis Jordan, and\u00a0Benny Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1949, he was the only black member of the band for\u00a0<em><strong>You<\/strong> Bet Your Life<\/em>, a TV and radio show hosted by\u00a0Groucho Marx. In the 1950s, he worked as a\u00a0studio musician\u00a0with\u00a0Frank Sinatra,\u00a0Ella Fitzgerald,\u00a0Duke Ellington,\u00a0Count Basie,\u00a0Nat King Cole, and\u00a0Nelson Riddle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1955 he was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet, playing\u00a0chamber jazz\u00a0flute with guitarist\u00a0Jim Hall, cellist\u00a0Fred Katz, and bassist\u00a0Carson Smith.\u00a0He also taught, and his students included Mingus,\u00a0James Newton,\u00a0Eric Dolphy,\u00a0Charles Lloyd, and\u00a0Frank Morgan. He helped merge an all-black musicians&#8216; union with an all-white musicians&#8216; union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Although information on the relationship between Groucho Marx and Buddy Collette is scarce, there is no doubt that their relationship was significant. Marx, an American Jewish entertainer was, by the 1940s, one of the film industry&#8217;s biggest superstars thanks to films such as \u201cDuck Soup\u201d and \u201cA Night at the Opera.\u201d Marx&#8217;s career successes, up to\u00a0<i>You Bet Your Life<\/i>, had been shared with his brothers, who, as the Marx Brothers, had been entertaining the public since their childhood days in Vaudeville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1949, Collette was the first black musician to be hired by a nationally broadcast TV studio orchestra, on\u00a0<i>You Bet Your Life<\/i>, hosted by Groucho. It has been noted that the conductor of the orchestra, Jerry Fielding, received hate-mail for standing by Collette. Collette&#8217;s job and job security on the popular television show signaled that opportunities were becoming more readily available for black musicians by the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Musical_collaborations\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Musical collaborations<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rising in success in the late 1940s, Buddy Collette was called upon frequently for collaborations and recordings on alto saxophone with musicians such as Ivie Anderson, Johnny Otis, Gerald Wilson, Ernie Andrews, and\u00a0Charles Mingus. Most notably, Collette and Mingus formed their first band in 1933, the driving force that convinced Mingus to switch from cello to bass. The counterpoint between these this unlikely instrumental pairing blossomed into a lifelong friendship. He went on to form a short-lived yet cooperative band in 1946 with Mingus called Stars of the Swing, which also included trombonist\u00a0Britt Woodman, trumpeter John Anderson, tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson (replaced by Teddy Edwards early on), pianist Spaulding Givins (later known as\u00a0Nadi Qamar), and drummer Oscar Bradley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Furthermore, Collette collaborated with Benny Carter, the Community Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles,\u00a0Percy Faith,\u00a0Joe Liggins, Gerald Wilson Orchestra, and was a musical director for the jazz band program at Loyola Marymount University.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Involvement_in_music_unions\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Involvement in music unions<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Around the early 1900s, Los Angeles was primarily divided into two music unions: Local 47, a union for white musicians, and Local 767, a union for black musicians.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Buddy Collette and several other black musicians including Bill Green, Charles Mingus, Britt Woodman Milt Holland made concentrated efforts to merge the two unions to one, color-blind union in the early 1950s.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Initially, the merge existed as an interracial symphony performing at the Humanist Hall on Twenty-third and Union.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0This group received a great deal of publicity as iconic figures such as\u00a0\u201cSweets\u201d Edison,\u00a0Nat King Cole, and\u00a0Frank Sinatra\u00a0provided public support of the interracial group.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0The success of this group led to the coalition of the two segregated locals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Buddy Collette eventually made the board of Local 767 along with\u00a0Bill Douglass\u00a0in the vice-president&#8217;s position.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0After three years of working with Leo Davis and James Petrillo, the presidents of Local 767 and Local 47 respectively, the two groups became what Collette calls an \u201camalgamation\u201d of the two in 1953.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0This merging signified greater opportunity for these musicians in both careers and insurance benefits, as well as great racial advancement. Up to forty locals have since replicated this success elsewhere, which has allowed the talent of a musician as opposed to his\/her race determine success.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Association_with_the_Chico_Hamilton_Quintet\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Association with the Chico Hamilton Quintet<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1955, Buddy Collette became a founding member of the unusually instrumented chamber jazz quintet, led by percussionist\u00a0Chico Hamilton. The quintet was notable for having cellist and pianist (Fred Katz) as the band&#8217;s centerpiece, leading Collette to refer to Katz as \u201cthe first jazz cello player\u201d.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:1_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Also included in the quintet was guitarist\u00a0Jim Hall\u00a0and bassist\u00a0Jim Aton, later replaced by\u00a0Carson Smith. The group gained national prominence and became one of the most influential West Coast jazz bands, synonymous with the laidback \u201ccool jazz\u201d of the 1950s.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In the quintet, Collette played the reeds (tenor and alto saxophones, the flute and clarinet).<sup id=\"cite_ref-:1_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1957, the group (accompanied by flutist\u00a0Paul Horn\u00a0and guitarist\u00a0John Pisano) made a cameo appearance in the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film, \u201cSweet Smell of Success\u201d. <sup id=\"cite_ref-:2_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Later that year, Collette collaborated with Horn in his own flutist ensemble, the &#8222;Swinging Shepherds&#8220;, a four-flute-lineup.<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> In November 1958, Langston Hughes read poems to accompaniment by Collette and his band at the Screen Directors Theatre in Los Angeles.\u00a0In 1960, the quintet also gave a significant performance in the\u00a0Newport Jazz Festival\u00a0documentary &#8222;Jazz on a Summer\u2019s Day\u201d, alongside flutist\u00a0Eric Dolphy.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:2_6-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Later, in 1996, when the Library of Congress commissioned Collette to write and perform a special big-band concert to highlight his long career, he brought together some old musical collaborators to perform with him, including Chico Hamilton.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:1_4-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span id=\"Death.2C_legacy_and_influence\"><\/span><span id=\"Death,_legacy_and_influence\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Death, legacy and influence<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">He died in Los Angeles of heart failure at the age of 89.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Buddy Collette&#8217;s career as a musician produced not only an ample discography, but created and transformed numerous musicians. Collette dedicated a large portion of his career to teaching and mentoring others and helping younger artists that were once in his footsteps, into professional and highly skilled artists. Collette&#8217;s mentees included Eric Dolphy,\u00a0Frank Morgan, and\u00a0James Newton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Collette initially taught and mentored within the Watts district of Los Angeles, but later began traveling and performing around the country.Towards the later half of his career, Collette was in a high demand to teach seminars and music clinics in universities around the country, in addition to being asked to perform and take part in jam sessions. One of his most notable affiliations is with the\u00a0UCLA\u00a0oral history program, where he was a key contributor to the Central Avenue Sounds program ran by Stephen Isoardi. Collette also joined the faculty at\u00a0California State University, Pomona\u00a0campus in 1992 where he was a conductor of the jazz and combo band. Collette also held important faculty positions at\u00a0CSULA,\u00a0CSULB,\u00a0California State University Dominguez Hills, and\u00a0Loyola Marymount University. He was designated a Los Angeles Living Cultural Treasure by the city of Los Angeles in the late 1990s, and, in the early 2000s, he was composing music for JazzAmerica, a band of teen jazz virtuosos he co-founded.<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Collett&#8217;s legacy lives on through the various careers that he helped transform. Through his work with the conjunction of the music unions, as a host of regular jam sessions, and as an organizer for the multi-racial community Humanist Symphony Orchestra, Collette helped countless of musicians find their signature sounds and perfect their skills. Buddy Collette&#8217;s career and accomplishments were rewarded by the Los Angeles Jazz Society where he received a special commendation, and with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Federation of Musicians. Local 47, for his musical contributions spanning four decades. Collette&#8217;s legacy lives on through the JazzAmerica program, a non-profit organization which he co-founded in 1994 that aims at bringing jazz into classrooms in middle school and high schools in the greater Los Angeles area tuition-free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Collette\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy Collette Buddy Collette in 1985 Background information Birth name William Marcel Collette Born August 6, 1921 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Died September 19, 2010\u00a0(aged\u00a089) Los Angeles Genres Jazz,\u00a0West Coast jazz,\u00a0cool jazz Occupation(s) Musician, educator Instruments Flute, saxophone, clarinet Labels Contemporary, Challenge,\u00a0Mode,\u00a0EmArcy Associated acts Chico Hamilton Wikipedia Collette, Buddy (William Marcel), 6.8.1921 Los Angeles &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/?p=180\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buddy (William Marcel) Collette<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-jazz","category-musiker","category-america","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}