Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman or Pitman (born in 1909, died in 1969) was the son of Portia Pittman and a grandson of Booker T. Washington. He became an accomplished jazz clarinetist and played with greats like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 30s. He left the US for the first time in 1933, when he went with Lucky Millinder's orchestra to France and stayed there for four years. During that period, he met a Brazilian musician named Romeo Silva, who took him on a tour of Brazil along with other musicians. They sailed to Bahia aboard the "Siqueira Campos." In 1937, Booker moved to Brazil, where he was known by the nickname "Buca," and continued his musical career there, playing at the Urca Casino. He lived in Copacabana and befriended Jorge Guinle and Pixinguinha. He also played in other countries, like Argentina. He died of laryngeal cancer at the age of 60 in 1969. His stepdaughter Eliana Pittman is a Brazilian jazz singer and actress.

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* [http://www.elianapittman.com.br/homenagem.asp| Official Website of Eliana Pittman]
* [http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.2/html/237.html|The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 2, page 237]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0pfuxqljldte~T1 Booker Pittman] at Allmusic


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