Eddie Duran

Eddie Duran
Birth name Edward Lozano Duran
Born (1925-09-06) September 6, 1925
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Jazz artist
Instruments guitar
Years active 1940–present
Labels Concord Jazz
Fantasy
Milestone
Associated acts Mad Duran, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Tania Maria, Earl Hines

Edward Lozano "Eddie" Duran (born September 6, 1925 in San Francisco) is an American virtuoso jazz guitarist based in San Francisco for virtually his entire life. His wife, Madaline "Mad" Duran," is a prolific jazz flutist and saxophonist and has been his main musical collaborator since 1983, when they were married. Eddie Duran has performed extensively in Bay Area and rarely tours; though he went out with Red Norvo and Benny Goodman.[1]

Professional career

Duran has been playing professionally for seventy-five years — since he was fifteen; and he has performed and lived most of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has recorded as leader with Fantasy (1956), Concord Jazz (1979), Milestone Records (1996), and Mad and Eddie Duran Records — a private label that he and his wife, Madeleine Duran, launched to produce and distribute their own works.
Around 1957, Duran was the guitarist in the CBS Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ray Hackett for the Bill Weaver Show,[lower-alpha 1][2] a variety show broadcast by CBS's San Francisco affiliate, KQW, later renamed KCBS, from the Palace Hotel on Jesse Street at New Montgomery Street.[lower-alpha 2] Regular vocalists on the show included Ree Brunell, Bob Callahan, Ellen Connor, Ardene DeCamp (also a violinist), and Stan Noonan, singer.[lower-alpha 3][3] While playing with the CBS Orchestra, Duran met Ree Brunell and performed on her debut album, Intro To Jazz of the Italian-American. The album was the first LP recorded by San Francisco Jazz Records, a short-lived label that had been part of the production of the radio station at the time.
Duran also was a featured performer and recording artist with several notable jazz combos. In 1954, Vince Guaraldi, Eddie's childhood friend, who been performing with Cal Tjader, was fronting his own trio with Duran and bassist Dean Reilly.[4] Guaraldi introduced Tjader to Eddie and his two brothers, Carlos, a jazz pianist, and Manuel, a bassist. All three Duran brothers were members of Cal Tjaders Mambo Quintet in the mid 1950s. Sixty years ago (1956), Duran played in a trio with Vince Guaraldi. From 1956 to 1964, Duran did six recording sessions with Guaraldi.
In 1958, Duran was the guitarist at a live concert of a sextet co-led by Cal Tjader and Stan Getz, six years before Getz became an international household name. The event was recorded by Fantasy Records in San Francisco at the Marines Memorial Auditorium. In a recent interview, Duran, the sole survivor today, made this observation:
There was no rehearsal before the date, no alternates, no second takes. It went very smoothly. It just kind of fell into place. The feeling was happy and relaxed.[5]
Also in 1958, Eddie was joined by his brother, Manuel, on Tjader's album, San Francisco Moods. Duran led his own trio from 1960 to 1967. In 1962, Eddie was joined by his brother Carlos on Benny Velarde's[lower-alpha 4] album, Ay Que Rico.
From 1976 to 1981, Duran was a member of Benny Goodman's orchestras, which included an acclaimed performance with Goodman's octet at Carnegie Hall June 28, 1976, in connection with the Newport Jazz Festival.[6]
During his first two years with Goodman, Duran's wife, Arlene, mother, Ellen, and childhood friend, Vince Guaraldi, died. Of his four children, he was still raising two.
Between 1980 and 1982, Duran recorded with Tania Maria.[7] In 1983, Duran remarried to Madeleine ("Mad") Askew. In the late 1980s, after his last two children had grown up, Duran moved to New York City and performed in a quartet that he organized.
Duran crossed paths with Getz again in 1983 while recording the Dee Bell studio album, Let There Be Love.
The list of jazz artist he has performed with extend to Charlie Parker, George Shearing, Red Norvo, and Earl Hines.[7]
Duran was once a licensed barber.[8][9]

Family

Growing up

Duran's father, Fernando Duran (1889–1942), born in Mexico, worked in a cigar factory in the Bay Area. Eddie's middle name, "Lozano," was the maiden name of his mother, Emma E. Duran (1893–1977), who in 1940 remarried to Ignacio Torez Maun (1894–1986). Eddie started on piano at age seven, and switched to guitar at 12. After about seven months of lessons, Duran began teaching to himself. Eddie had five brothers and one sister. His brother Carlo (1917–1998) was a jazz pianist and his brother Manuel (1923–2005) was a jazz bassist. Duran's daughter, Sharman Laura Duran, is a keyboardist and vocalist. Another daughter, Pilar F. Duran, is a guitarist.

Marriages

Duran's first wife of twenty-five years, Arlene (née Arlene Ruth Wolf), died in 1977 — the same year his mother died. On October 19, 1983, Duran remarried Madeleine ("Mad") M. Askew in Sonoma County, California. Eddie and Mad have been married thirty-two years. Mad Duran, who is twenty-eight years younger than Eddie, was initially a classically trained flutist and saxophonist. And she was a music educator. She has since flourished as a jazz artist in her own right. The two Durans, Eddie and Mad, are co-leaders as performers and have collaborated on five albums, including one they produced in 1996, From Here To The Moon: Mad And Eddie Duran. When Mad Duran performs, she often performs on the flute and saxophone instrument families, i.e., soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, alto flute, and c-flute. Mad Duran has performed and recorded with the Montclair Women's Big Band in Marin County, California.

Selected discography

As leader

Recording in San Francisco, 1957
Howard Dudune (clarinet, tenor sax), Eddie Duran (guitar), Dean Reilly (bass), John Markham (drums)
  1. "My Inspiration"
  2. "Soon"
  3. "Rise 'n' Shine"
  4. "My Shining Hour"
  5. "Taking Life Easy"
  6. "Why Not?"
  7. "A Room With a View"
  8. "Skyliner"
  9. "It Could Happen To You"
  10. "Sugar"
Recorded in San Francisco, March 1979
Eddie Duran (guitar), Dean Reilly (bass), Benny Barth (drums)
  1. "Ginza"
  2. "Moonray"
  3. "Three Little Words"
  4. "Zigeuner"
  5. "Breakfast Feud"
  6. "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing"
  7. "Conjunto"
  8. "Day Dream"
  • Eddie Rides Again — Eddie Duran, Alone Mad & Eddie Duran Recordings (2000)

Mad & Eddie Duran

Recorded in Berkeley and Pittsburg, California, August 22–23 and September 7, 1996
Mad Duran (soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, alto flute, C-flute) Al Plank (piano 1), Mark Levine (piano 2), Eddie Duran (guitar), Scott Steed (bass 1), Marc Van Wageningen (bass 2), Vince Lateano (drums 1), Raul Ramirez (drums 2)
  1. "Daahoud" (1)
  2. "Symphony Sid Samba" (2), by Eddie Duran
  3. "Everything I Love" (1), by Cole Porter
Medley:
  1.    "My Favorite Things" (2), music by Richard Rodgers
  2.    "Take Five" (2), by Paul Desmond
Medley:
  1.    "Conception" (1)
  2.    "Deception" (1)
  3. "From Here To The Moon" (2)
  4. "Don't Be That Way" (2)
  5. "Besame Mucho" (2), by Consuelo Velázquez
  6. "Budo" (1)
  7. "Quesadillas" (2)
  8. "Very Early" (1)
  9. "CTA" (1)

Mad & Eddie Duran: Tribute to Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

  • Brazilian Passion (2000)
  • That Bossa Nova Thing (2000)
  • Samba Cocktail (2000)

As sideman and ensemble member

Re-released as The incomparable Earl "Fatha" Hines (1968); OCLC 5858767
Re-released as Another Monday Date (1974); OCLC 1111154
Recorded in San Francisco February 8, 1958
Re-released in 2005; OCLC 868438534
Stan Getz (tenor sax), Cal Tjader (vibes), Vince Guaraldi (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Scott LaFaro (bass), Billy Higgins (drums)
Recorded in San Francisco in 1958
Cal Tjader (vibes), Manuel Duran (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Jimmy Mosher (bass), John Markham (drums) — Jack Weeks replaces Jimmy Mosher on three songs
Concert, San Francisco, May 1963
Recorded in San Francisco, circa 1960s
  • Vince Guaraldi, Alma-Ville, Warner Bros WS1828
Vince Guaraldi (piano), Herb Ellis, Eddie Duran (guitars), Sebastiao Neto (electric bass), Kelly Bryan, Monty Budwig (basses), Dom Um Romao, Al Coster, Colin Bailey (drums), Rubens Bassini (percussion)
Recorded in San Francisco, circa, 1960–1970s
Recorded in Berkeley, California, September 1974 & Los Angeles, May 1975
Recorded in Stamford, Connecticut, June 30, 1976
Warren Vache (trumpet), Benny Goodman (clarinet), Tommy Faye (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Michael Moore (bass), Connie Kay (drums)
Live Budokan, Tokyo, September 3, 1980
Live Expo Park, Osaka, Japan, September 6, 1980
Live International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, September 7, 1980
Recorded August 1982 at Coast Recorders, San Francisco, Calif.
All songs arranged by Eddie Duran

Selected videos

"Prelude To a Kiss" Video on YouTube
Eddie Duram Model Video on YouTube

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Bill Weaver was the pseudonym of William Francis Ward (1920–1996)
  2. ↑ Duran's tenure with the CBS Radio Orchestra at Palace Hotel is not precisely known. His engagement with the orchestra secured stable income as a performer and strengthened his proficiency as a straight-ahead player in a studio orchestra, a genre that Duran repeated in the late seventies with Benny Goodman.
  3. ↑ Stan Noonan (né Stanley Jack Noonan; 1912–1996)
  4. 1 2 Benny Velarde (born 1929), a percussionist, immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1950. His birth name was Epimenides Bayardo Velarde. When he was naturalized, he changed his legal name to Bayardo Crespo Velarde.

Inline citations

  1. ↑ "Disc-ussion — Pair Excels Back to Back," by Christopher Colombi, Jr. (1942–1991), Plain Dealer, November 23, 1979, pg. 207
  2. ↑ "Deaths: William F. Ward," Broadcasting & Cable, Vol. 126, No. 53, December 30, 1996, pg. 68
  3. ↑ "Radio Orchestras of San Francisco," by Jack M. Bethards (né John Bethards; born 1940), Paramount Theatre Music Library, Oakland, California (2010), reprinted from the AFM Local Six Newsletter
  4. ↑ Vince Guaraldi at the Piano by Derrick P. Bang (1955), McFarland & Co. (2012), pg. 358; OCLC 770876349
  5. ↑ Interview with Eddie Duran," Liner Notes, Cal Tjader / Stan Getz Sextet (re-issue), Fantasy Records (2011); OCLC 700137213
  6. ↑ "Goodman's Stamp Marks Octet," by John S. Wilson, New York Times, June 30, 1976
  7. 1 2 Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists, by Jim Carlton, Bill's Music Shelf: Mel Bay Publications (2009), pg. 148; OCLC 560167410
  8. ↑ "Eddie Duran," by Richard S. Ginell (born 1954), All Music Guide to Jazz (4th ed.), Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Backbeat Books (2002), pg. 366; OCLC 50477109
  9. ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,, Barry Dean Kernfeld, PhD, & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan; OCLC 5104900439
        1st ed. (2 vols.) (1988); OCLC 16804283
        1st ed. (reissue, combining 2 vols.) (1994); OCLC 30516743
        2nd ed. (3 vols.) (2002); OCLC 46956628
  10. ↑ West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960 by Ted Gioia, University of California Press (1992); OCLC 24009620

External links

www.madduran.com
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, August 27, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.