Eddie Heywood

[1] His father, Eddie Heywood Sr., was also a jazz musician from the 1920s and provided him with training from the age of 12 as an accompanist playing in the pit band in a vaudeville theater in Atlanta, occasionally accompanying singers such as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters.[1] Heywood moved, first to New Orleans and then to Kansas City, when vaudeville began to be replaced by sound pictures.[1] In 1943, Heywood took several solos on a Coleman Hawkins quartet date (including "The Man I Love") and put together a sextet, including Doc Cheatham (tpt), Vic Dickenson (tb), Lem Davis (as), Al Lucas (b), and Jack Parker (d).In the 1950s, Heywood composed and recorded "Land of Dreams" and "Soft Summer Breeze" (1956)[1] (which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard chart).His 1956 recording of his composition "Canadian Sunset",[1] with Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra for RCA Victor, peaked at number 2.
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