Profile
Tadd Dameron
Composer + Pianist + Saxophonist
Male
Born
Feb 21, 1917
Died
Mar 8, 1965
Genres
Jazz
Instruments
Piano
Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron was an American jazz composer, arranger and pianist. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement, while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the "definitive arranger/composer… Read More
News + Updates
Browse recent news and stories about Tadd Dameron.
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Jazzmen Sociologues Le MondeGoogle News - Aug 27, 2011
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Barry Harris, Pizza Express Jazz Club Review Evening StandardGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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Music Review; A Veteran Sideman Takes The LeadNYTimes - Aug 04, 2011
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Come Cambiare Il Jazz A Ritmo Di Blue Note Il GiornaleGoogle News - Jul 30, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Tadd Dameron.
CHILDHOOD
1917
Birth
Born on February 21, 1917.
THIRTIES
In the late 1940s, Dameron wrote arrangements for the big band of Dizzy Gillespie, who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony at Carnegie Hall in 1948.
1953
36 Years Old
After forming another group of his own with Clifford Brown in 1953, Dameron developed an addiction to narcotics toward the end of his career.
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FORTIES
1965
48 Years Old
Dameron suffered from cancer and had several heart attacks before he died at the age of 48 of cancer in 1965.
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