Truck Parham

Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham (January 25, 1911 – June 5, 2002) was an American jazz double-bassist.

Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham
Born(1911-01-25)January 25, 1911
OriginUnited States
DiedJune 5, 2002(2002-06-05) (aged 91)
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Athlete boxer, football and Musician
Instrumentsdouble-bass

Parham played professional sports early in his career; he was a boxer and played football with the Chicago Negro All Stars. He played drums before settling on bass, and studied under Walter Page. He played in the Midwest territory band of Zack Whyte in 1932-34, playing primarily in Cincinnati. After returning to Chicago, he played with Zutty Singleton, Roy Eldridge (1936–38), Art Tatum, and Bob Shoffner in the 1930s. In 1940 he joined Earl Hines's orchestra, where he remained for two years; in 1942 he was hired by Jimmie Lunceford and played with him until 1947.

Parham continued to play revival gigs with Muggsy Spanier (1950–55), Herbie Fields (1956–57), Hines again, and Louie Bellson. He spent much of the 1960s working with Art Hodes, and played in numerous Dixieland jazz groups later in his career. Parham never recorded as a leader, though he recorded profusely as a sideman.

Discography

With Louis Bellson

gollark: Nowadays, if someone came up with the idea of sending privileged system messages down something the user could easily read/write to, they would probably not be taken seriously, but it seems like they just... didn't think of the security implications? Or thought doing it differently would be too costly maybe.
gollark: It seems really bizarre that people came up with this whole in-band signalling system and thought it was a good idea.
gollark: To get free long distance calls.
gollark: The main thing I heard about with that was spoofing something involved in long distance calling.
gollark: It seems like a lot of old designs for protocols and stuff like that just completely ignored security, for some reason.

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