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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Elijah „Buddy“ Harper</b> (* vor 1945; † um <a href="2005" title="2005">2005</a>) war ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Jazzgitarre" title="Jazzgitarre">Jazzgitarrist</a>, <a href="Arrangeur" title="Arrangeur">Arrangeur</a> und <a href="Musikproduzent" title="Musikproduzent">Musikproduzent</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>„Buddy“ Harper, ein Onkel der Sängerin <a href="Toni_Harper" title="Toni Harper">Toni Harper</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gehörte Mitte der 1940er Jahre der <a href="Band_(Musik)" title="Band (Musik)">Band</a> von <a href="Gerald_Wilson" title="Gerald Wilson">Gerald Wilson</a> an und wirkte bei dessen Aufnahmen für <a href="Black_%26_White_Records" title="Black & White Records">Black & White Records</a> mit (<i>Crusin’ with Cab</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er spielte in der Jazzszene von <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> u. a. auch mit <a href="Big_Jay_McNeely" title="Big Jay McNeely">Big Jay McNeely</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Lester_Young" title="Lester Young">Lester Young</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Don_Byas" title="Don Byas">Don Byas</a>, <a href="Jack_McVea" title="Jack McVea">Jack McVea</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> und mit <a href="Wilbert_Baranco" title="Wilbert Baranco">Wilbert Baranco</a>/<a href="Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a> (<i><a href="You_Go_to_My_Head" title="You Go to My Head">You Go to My Head</a></i> 1945).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mit seiner All Stars-Band, zu der auch <a href="Maxwell_Davis" title="Maxwell Davis">Maxwell Davis</a>, Wilbert Baranco, <a href="Karl_George" title="Karl George">Karl George</a> und <a href="Red_Callender" title="Red Callender">Red Callender</a> gehörten, begleitete er in Los Angeles 1946 bei Plattenaufnahmen für <a href="Aladdin_Records_(USA)" title="Aladdin Records (USA)">Aladdin</a> die Sängerin Effie Smith (<i>Nothin’ You Can Do</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bei einer weiteren Session für Jewel war sein Orchester die Begleitband des Sängers <a href="Dan_Grissom" title="Dan Grissom">Dan Grissom</a> (<i>Like a Ship at Sea</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Für <a href="Lyle_Griffin" title="Lyle Griffin">Lyle Griffins</a> Label Atomic war er Sessionmusiker bei Aufnahmen der Sängerin Betty Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Anfang der 1960er Jahre produzierte Harper für das gemeinsam mit dem <a href="Disc_Jockey" class="mw-redirect" title="Disc Jockey">DJ</a> Chuck Mann betriebene Label <i>Spindletop</i> u. a. Musik von Freddie Romain, Sänger der <a href="Doo-Wop" class="mw-redirect" title="Doo-Wop">Doo-Wop</a>-Vokalgruppe <i>The Native Boys</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1983 trat Harper, der Mentor von <a href="Horace_Tapscott" title="Horace Tapscott">Horace Tapscott</a> war,<sup id="cite_ref-duersten_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duersten-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> mit ihm auf dem <i>Watts Towers Festival</i> auf.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Er starb Mitte der 2000er Jahre.<sup id="cite_ref-duersten_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duersten-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Clora_Bryant" title="Clora Bryant">Clora Bryant</a> beschrieb in ihrer Geschichte des Jazz in Los Angeles Buddy Harper als begabten <a href="Arrangeur" title="Arrangeur">Arrangeur</a>, der sich an <a href="Billy_Strayhorn" title="Billy Strayhorn">Billy Strayhorns</a> Arbeit für das <a href="Duke_Ellington_Orchestra" title="Duke Ellington Orchestra">Duke Ellington Orchestra</a> orientierte.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eine Sammlung seiner Jazz-Arrangements befindet sich in der Music Library der UCLA (Schoenberg Music Building).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskographische_Hinweise">Diskographische Hinweise</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Charles 'Baron' Mingus West Coast 1945–49</i> (Uptown)</li>
<li><i>The Chronological Gerald Wilson 1945–1946</i> (Classics)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Leonard_Feather" title="Leonard Feather">Leonard Feather</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=2Is4AQAAIAAJ&q=Buddy+Harper+guitar&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZwIcT4uJLNCDtQaQudVH&redir_esc=y">The encyclopedia yearbooks of jazz, Da Capo Press, 1993</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=Oit7y0bS4MUC&pg=PA83&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZwIcT4uJLNCDtQaQudVH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Buddy%20Harper%20guitar&f=false">Lawrence McClellan: <i>The later swing era, 1942 to 1955</i></a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=ZsVXAAAAYAAJ&q=Buddy+Harper+guitar&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CwYcT7y4BsXRsgbf1qlI&redir_esc=y">Jim Dawson: <i>Nervous man nervous: Big Jay McNeely and the rise of the honking tenor sax!</i></a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=HPkHAQAAMAAJ&q=Buddy+Harper+guitar&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZwIcT4uJLNCDtQaQudVH&redir_esc=y">Douglas Henry Daniels: <i>Lester leaps in: The life and times of Lester "Pres" Young</i>. Beacon Press, 2002</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=PYU4AQAAIAAJ&q=Buddy+Harper+guitar&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZwIcT4uJLNCDtQaQudVH&redir_esc=y">Storyville, Issues 73-86 (1977)</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jazzdisco.org/charles-mingus/discography/">Mingus-Diskographie bei jazzdiscography</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261891140">
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110905145940/http://www.mingus.co/?a=24">Diskographische Hinweise bei Mingus.co</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 5. September 2011 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=ChoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=Buddy+Harper+guitar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZwIcT4uJLNCDtQaQudVH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Buddy%20Harper%20guitar&f=false">Billboard, 14. September 1946</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Charles_Delaunay" title="Charles Delaunay">Charles Delaunay</a>: <i>Hot discographie encyclopédique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He)</i>. Paris, Èditions Jazz Disques, 1952.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ethancrenson.com/atomicdisc.htm">Atomic Diskographie</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.electricearl.com/dws/nativeboys.html">Information bei The Doo-Wop Society of Southern California: The Native Boys</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-duersten-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-duersten_12-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-duersten_12-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">laweekly.com: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130127/http://www.laweekly.com/content/printVersion/43885/"><i>Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.</i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 27. Januar 2013 im Webarchiv <i><a href="Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a></i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=X00BP5hWTZoC&pg=PA200-IA10&dq=Buddy+Harper+jazz&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_w4cT5PXEM6Vswbn-6xI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Buddy%20Harper%20jazz&f=false">Steven L. Isoardi: <i>The Dark Tree: jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles</i></a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=ctNSi1g34CgC&pg=PA78&dq=Buddy+Harper+jazz&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ew0cT826DtSksgarqNFH&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Buddy%20Harper%20jazz&f=false">Clora Bryant: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">library.ucla.edu: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120128105554/http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/music/mlsc/complete.cfm"><i>Music Library Archival Collections</i></a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 28. Januar 2012 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</span>
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