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Boyd Raeburn
Boyd Raeburn, c. June 1946 Photograph by William P. Gottlieb
Background information
Birth name	Boyd Albert Raeburn
Born	(1913-10-27)October 27, 1913 Faith, South Dakota, U.S.
Died	2 August 1966(1966-08-02) (aged 52) Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Saxophone

Boyd Albert Raeburn (October 27, 1913 – August 2, 1966)^[1] was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.

Career

He was born in Faith, South Dakota, United States.^[1] Raeburn attended the University of Chicago, where he led a campus band.^[1] He gained his earliest experience as a commercial bandleader at Chicago's World Fair (1933–1934).^[2] For the rest of the decade, he worked in dance bands, sometimes leading them.^[3]

In the next decade, the group passed through swing before becoming identified with the bop school.^[2] His later big band, which was active c. 1944-1947, performed arrangements that were often comparable to those used by Woody Herman and the "progressive jazz" of Stan Kenton during the same period.^[3] The compositions arranged by George Handy were the most contemporary, utilizing dissonance somewhat in the manner of Igor Stravinsky.^{[citation needed]} Johnny Richards joined in 1947, following Handy and stayed for a year writing 50 compositions.^[3]

Later life and death

Raeburn's second wife was the singer Ginny Powell, for whom he wrote "Rip Van Winkle". The couple married in 1946,^[2] had two children.^[4] As well as singing with her husband's group, Powell also sang with Harry James and Gene Krupa.^[4] Raeburn left music in the mid-1950s.^[3] Powell died in Nassau in the Bahamas in 1959 from meningitis; the couple had moved there.^[4] He settled in New Orleans and ran a furniture store.^[5]

Raeburn died from a heart attack in 1966 in Lafayette, Louisiana, aged 52.^[1] Boyd Raeburn's first wife was Lorraine Anderson, with whom he had one child; the union ended in divorce. His son with Powell, Bruce Boyd Raeburn^[4] of New Orleans, was the curator of the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at the Tulane University in New Orleans until December 2017.^[4]

Discography

Boyd Meets Stravinski (Savoy, 1955)
Man with the Horns (Savoy, 1955)
Dance Spectacular (Columbia, 1956)
Fraternity Rush (Columbia, 1957)
On the Air Vol. 1 (Hep, 1974)
Rhythms by Raeburn (Aircheck, 1977)
Experiments in Big Band Jazz 1945 (Musicraft, 1980)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2031. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Boyd Raeburn, 52, Band Leader, Dies; His Orchestra's Bop Style Influenced Postwar Jazz". The New York Times. August 4, 1966. p. 32. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Stokes, W. Royal (April 22, 1979). "Swinging Back to a '40s Sound". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Shaw, Lew (January 1, 2018). "Bruce Boyd Raeburn Retires From Hogan Jazz Archive". Syncopatedtimes.com. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
^ Jordan, Steve; Scanlan, Tom (1993) [1991]. "Rhythm Man: Fifty Years in Jazz". Ann Arbor: University of Micghigan Press. p. 58. ISBN 0472082027.

External links

Media related to Boyd Raeburn at Wikimedia Commons

"Changing Personalities: Eastman Chamber Jazz Explores the Music of Boyd Raeburn", November 8, 2016.
Boyd Raeburn biography, parabrisas.com; accessed February 8, 2018.
Boyd Raeburn music collection, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
"A Band leader you'd be?", by Boyd Raeburn, Band Leaders, November, 1945 (Starts on page 24).

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