Eddie Duran

Eddie Duran
Birth name Edward Lozano Duran
Born (1925-09-06) September 6, 1925
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres Pop
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1940–present
Labels Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Milestone
Associated acts Mad Duran, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Tania Maria, Earl Hines

Edward Lozano "Eddie" Duran (born September 6) in San Francisco) is an American virtuoso jazz guitarist based in San Francisco. His wife, Madaline "Mad" Duran," is a prolific jazz flutist and saxophonist and has been his main musical collaborator since 1983, when they were married. Eddie Duran has performed extensively in Bay Area and rarely tours; though he went out with Red Norvo and Benny Goodman.[1]

Professional career

Duran has been playing professionally for seventy-six years — since he was fifteen; and he has performed and lived most of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has recorded as leader with Fantasy (1956), Concord Jazz (1979), Milestone (1996), and Mad and Eddie Duran Records, a private label that he and his wife, Madeleine Duran, launched to produce and distribute their works.

Around 1957, Duran was the guitarist in the CBS Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ray Hackett for the Bill Weaver Show,[lower-alpha 1][2] a variety show broadcast by CBS's San Francisco affiliate, KQW, later renamed KCBS, from the Palace Hotel on Jesse Street at New Montgomery Street.[lower-alpha 2] Regular vocalists on the show included Ree Brunell, Bob Callahan, Ellen Connor, Ardene DeCamp (also a violinist), and singer Stan Noonan.[lower-alpha 3][3] While playing with the CBS Orchestra, Duran met Brunell and performed on her debut album, Intro to Jazz of the Italian-American. The album was the first LP recorded by San Francisco Jazz Records, a short-lived label that had been part of the production of the radio station at the time.

Duran was a featured performer and recording artist with several notable jazz combos. In 1954 his friend Vince Guaraldi, who had been playing with Cal Tjader, started a trio with Duran and bassist Dean Riley.[4] Guaraldi introduced Tjader to Duran and his two brothers, Carlos, a jazz pianist, and Manuel, a bassist. All three Duran brothers were members of Cal Tjader's Mambo Quintet in the mid 1950s.

In 1958, Duran played a concert at the Marines Memorial Auditorium with Tjader and Stan Getz, six years before Getz became famous. The concert was recorded by Fantasy Records. In an interview, Duran said, "There was no rehearsal before the date, no alternates, no second takes. It went very smoothly. It just kind of fell into place. The feeling was happy and relaxed.[5]

Also in 1958, Duran was joined by his brother, Manuel, on Tjader's album, San Francisco Moods. Duran led his own trio from 1960 to 1967. In 1962, he was joined by his brother Carlos on Benny Velarde's[lower-alpha 4] album, Ay Que Rico.

From 1976 to 1981, Duran was a member of Benny Goodman's orchestras, which included an acclaimed performance with Goodman's octet at Carnegie Hall on June 28, 1976, in connection with the Newport Jazz Festival.[6]

During his first two years with Goodman, Duran's wife, Arlene, mother, Ellen, and childhood friend, Vince Guaraldi, died. Of his four children, he was still raising two.

Between 1980 and 1982, Duran recorded with Tania Maria.[7] In 1983, Duran remarried to Madeleine ("Mad") Askew. In the late 1980s, after his last two children had grown, Duran moved to New York City and performed in a quartet that he organized.

Duran crossed paths with Getz again in 1983 while recording the Dee Bell studio album, Let There Be Love.

The list of jazz artist he has performed with extend to Charlie Parker, George Shearing, Red Norvo, and Earl Hines.[7]

Duran was once a licensed barber.[8][9]

Family

Duran's father, Fernando Duran (1889–1942) was born in Mexico worked in a cigar factory in the Bay Area. Durant's middle name, Lozano, was the maiden name of his mother, Emma E. Duran (1893–1977), who in 1940 married Ignacio Torez Maun (1894–1986).

Duran started on piano at age seven and switched to guitar at 12. After about seven months of lessons, he began teaching himself. He had five brothers and one sister. His brother, Carlo (1917–1998), was a jazz pianist and his brother, Manuel, (1923–2005) was a jazz bassist. His daughter, Sharman Laura Duran, is a keyboardist and vocalist. Another daughter, Pilar F. Duran, is a guitarist.

Duran's first wife of twenty-five years, Arlene (née Arlene Ruth Wolf), died in 1977 — the same year his mother died. On October 19, 1983, he married Madeleine ("Mad") Askew in Sonoma County, California. Mad Duran, who is twenty-eight years younger than Eddie Duran, is a classically trained flutist and saxophonist and music educator. Duran and his wife have collaborated on five albums, including From Here to the Moon: Mad and Eddie Duran, which they produced in 1996.

Selected discography

As leader

Recording in San Francisco, 1957
Howard Dudune (clarinet, tenor sax), Eddie Duran (guitar), Dean Reilly (bass), John Markham (drums)
  1. "My Inspiration"
  2. "Soon"
  3. "Rise 'n' Shine"
  4. "My Shining Hour"
  5. "Taking Life Easy"
  6. "Why Not?"
  7. "A Room With a View"
  8. "Skyliner"
  9. "It Could Happen To You"
  10. "Sugar"
Recorded in San Francisco, March 1979
Eddie Duran (guitar), Dean Reilly (bass), Benny Barth (drums)
  1. "Ginza"
  2. "Moonray"
  3. "Three Little Words"
  4. "Zigeuner"
  5. "Breakfast Feud"
  6. "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing"
  7. "Conjunto"
  8. "Day Dream"
  • Eddie Rides Again — Eddie Duran, Alone Mad & Eddie Duran Recordings (2000)

Mad & Eddie Duran

Recorded in Berkeley and Pittsburg, California, August 22–23 and September 7, 1996
Mad Duran (soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, alto flute, C-flute) Al Plank (piano 1), Mark Levine (piano 2), Eddie Duran (guitar), Scott Steed (bass 1), Marc Van Wageningen (bass 2), Vince Lateano (drums 1), Raul Ramirez (drums 2)
  1. "Daahoud" (1)
  2. "Symphony Sid Samba" (2), by Eddie Duran
  3. "Everything I Love" (1), by Cole Porter
Medley:
  1. "My Favorite Things" (2), music by Richard Rodgers
  2. "Take Five" (2), by Paul Desmond
Medley:
  1. "Conception" (1)
  2. "Deception" (1)
  3. "From Here to the Moon" (2)
  4. "Don't Be That Way" (2)
  5. "Besame Mucho" (2), by Consuelo Velázquez
  6. "Budo" (1)
  7. "Quesadillas" (2)
  8. "Very Early" (1)
  9. "CTA" (1)

Mad & Eddie Duran: Tribute to Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

  • Brazilian Passion (2000)
  • That Bossa Nova Thing (2000)
  • Samba Cocktail (2000)

As sideman and ensemble member

  • Cal Tjader, Tjader Plays Tjazz, (Fantasy) 3-211 (1954)
  • Brew Moore, The Brew Moore Quintet, (Fantasy) 3-222 (1955)
  • Ron Crotty, Modern Music From San Francisco, (Fantasy) LP3213 (1955)
  • Earl Hines, Earl "Fatha" Hines Plays Fats Waller, (Fantasy) LP3217 (1956); OCLC 33810314
Re-released as The Incomparable Earl "Fatha" Hines (1968); OCLC 5858767
Re-released as Another Monday Date (1974); OCLC 1111154
  • Vince Guaraldi, Vince Guaraldi Trio, (Fantasy) LP3225, 3359, (1956)
  • Jerry Coker, San Francisco (Jazz Records) JR1 (1956)
  • Gus Mancuso, (Fantasy) LP3233 (1956)
  • Vince Guaraldi, A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, (Fantasy) LP3257, 3359
  • Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet, (Fantasy) 3266, (OJC) CD275-2 (CD); OCLC 35228265
Recorded in San Francisco February 8, 1958
Re-released in 2005; OCLC 868438534
Stan Getz (tenor sax), Cal Tjader (vibes), Vince Guaraldi (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Scott LaFaro (bass), Billy Higgins (drums)
  • Cal Tjader Quintet, San Francisco Moods, (Fantasy) 3271, (OJC) 277
Recorded in San Francisco in 1958
Cal Tjader (vibes), Manuel Duran (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Jimmy Mosher (bass), John Markham (drums) — Jack Weeks replaces Jimmy Mosher on three songs
  • Benny Velarde,[lower-alpha 4] Ay Que Rico, (Fantasy) 3343 (1962)
  • Vince Guaraldi Quintet, In Person, (Fantasy) LP3352, (OJC) CD951-2 (CD); OCLC 9149358
Concert, San Francisco, May 1963
  • Vince Guaraldi, The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi, with string quartet, (Fantasy) LP3360, (OJC) CD878-2 (1964)
  • Vince Guaraldi, Oh Good Grief! (Warner Bros) WS1747 (1968); OCLC 42573529
Recorded in San Francisco, c.1960s
  • Vince Guaraldi, Alma-Ville, Warner Bros WS1828
Vince Guaraldi (piano), Herb Ellis, Eddie Duran (guitars), Sebastiao Neto (electric bass), Kelly Bryan, Monty Budwig (basses), Dom Um Romao, Al Coster, Colin Bailey (drums), Rubens Bassini (percussion)
Recorded in San Francisco, c.1960–1970s
  • Cal Tjader, Last Night When We Were Young
Recorded in Berkeley, California, September 1974 & Los Angeles, May 1975
Recorded in Stamford, Connecticut, June 30, 1976
Warren Vache (trumpet), Benny Goodman (clarinet), Tommy Faye (piano), Eddie Duran (guitar), Michael Moore (bass), Connie Kay (drums)
  • Benny Goodman, King of Swing, East World (Japan) EWJ80187; OCLC 865497706
Live Budokan, Tokyo, September 3, 1980
Live Expo Park, Osaka, Japan, September 6, 1980
Live International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, September 7, 1980
Recorded August 1982 at Coast Recorders, San Francisco, Calif.
All songs arranged by Eddie Duran
  • Tania Maria, Come With Me, (Concord Jazz) CJP-200 (1983); OCLC 9691846, 760335330
  • Dee Bell, One by One, (Concord Jazz) CJ271 (1984); OCLC 12657628
  • A Tribute to Carl Jefferson, (Concord Jazz) CCD-7005 (1995)

Selected videos

"Prelude To a Kiss" Video on YouTube
Eddie Duram Model Video on YouTube

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Bill Weaver was the pseudonym of William Francis Ward (1920–1996)
  2. ↑ Duran's tenure with the CBS Radio Orchestra at Palace Hotel is not precisely known. His engagement with the orchestra secured stable income as a performer and strengthened his proficiency as a straight-ahead player in a studio orchestra, a genre that Duran repeated in the late seventies with Benny Goodman.
  3. ↑ Stan Noonan (né Stanley Jack Noonan; 1912–1996)
  4. 1 2 Benny Velarde (born 1929), a percussionist, immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1950. His birth name was Epimenides Bayardo Velarde. When he was naturalized, he changed his legal name to Bayardo Crespo Velarde.

Inline citations

  1. ↑ "Disc-ussion — Pair Excels Back to Back," by Christopher Colombi, Jr. (1942–1991), Plain Dealer, November 23, 1979, pg. 207
  2. ↑ "Deaths: William F. Ward," Broadcasting & Cable, Vol. 126, No. 53, December 30, 1996, pg. 68
  3. ↑ "Radio Orchestras of San Francisco," by Jack M. Bethards (né John Bethards; born 1940), Paramount Theatre Music Library, Oakland, California (2010), reprinted from the AFM Local Six Newsletter
  4. ↑ Vince Guaraldi at the Piano by Derrick P. Bang (1955), McFarland & Co. (2012), pg. 358; OCLC 770876349
  5. ↑ Interview with Eddie Duran," Liner Notes, Cal Tjader / Stan Getz Sextet (re-issue), Fantasy Records (2011); OCLC 700137213
  6. ↑ "Goodman's Stamp Marks Octet," by John S. Wilson, New York Times, June 30, 1976
  7. 1 2 Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists, by Jim Carlton, Bill's Music Shelf: Mel Bay Publications (2009), pg. 148; OCLC 560167410
  8. ↑ "Eddie Duran," by Richard S. Ginell (born 1954), All Music Guide to Jazz (4th ed.), Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Backbeat Books (2002), pg. 366; OCLC 50477109
  9. ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,, Barry Dean Kernfeld, PhD, & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan; OCLC 5104900439
        1st ed. (2 vols.) (1988); OCLC 16804283
        1st ed. (reissue, combining 2 vols.) (1994); OCLC 30516743
        2nd ed. (3 vols.) (2002); OCLC 46956628
  10. ↑ West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960 by Ted Gioia, University of California Press (1992); OCLC 24009620
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