Harry Parry
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| Born | 22 January 1912 Bangor , Wales |
| Died | 18 October 1956 (aged 44) London, England |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader |
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Harry Owen Parry (22 January 1912 – 18 October 1956) was a Welsh jazz clarinetist and bandleader.[1]
Biography
Parry was born in
Parlophone Records with his sextet, which included George Shearing and Doreen Villiers
as members.
Following World War II Parry worked extensively for radio and television, including as a disc jockey. He toured worldwide as a bandleader in the late 1940s and 1950s, including in the Middle East and India. Parry was stylistically indebted to Benny Goodman, a comparison not lost on contemporary critics. He died in his flat in Mayfair, London, in October 1956.
Parry married Jeannie Bradbury, a singer for the BBC's wartime General Forces Programme in 1945,[2] but the pair divorced in 1956.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Jones, Gwilym Arthur (2001). "PARRY, OWEN HENRY (HARRY PARRY; 1912–1956), jazz musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography / The National Library of Wales.
Biography
- Clarrie Henry, "Harry Parry". Grove Jazzonline.
- Gwilym Arthur Jones, PARRY, OWEN HENRY (HARRY PARRY; 1912-1956), jazz musician, Dictionary of Welsh Biography
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