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DAVID L. HUTSON
P.O. BOX 1554
Waldport, Oregon 97394
Telephone (541) 563-2859
COMPOSER - ARRANGER - CONDUCTOR – PRODUCER – PERFORMER ON ALTO & TENOR SAXOPHONES AND CLARINET
- Composed, arranged and produced music for many of the foremost artists of our time (37 listed in later summary.)
- Musical director of major musical events worldwide, in New York, Los Angeles, Europe, Asia and points in between (22 listed here).
- Performed with over 55 world famous personalities and/or orchestras.
- Received favorable press notices from music columnists and critics nationwide.
- Listed in The Encyclopedia Of Jazzin The Seventies, New York, Horizon Press 1976.
- Presently residing at the above address.
- Available for events similar to those listed herein.
SUMMARY OF MUSIC CREDITS
COMPOSED, ARRANGED AND/OR PRODUCED MUSIC FOR:
- Louis Bellson Orchestra Speakeasy Jazz Revue
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Shadoe Stevens - Shadoevision - Cinemax
Stephenie Caravella Teri Thornton
The Chessmen Voice Of America
The Coronados - RCA Records Vegas Variety Show, Seoul, Korea
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Marilyn Walton
- Floyd Dixon - Alligator Records
- Music of Duke Ellington - Carnegie Hail - Newport Jazz Festival
- The Goils
- Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (stage show)
- Bill Hadnott Orchestra
- David Hutson Hot Six - Bix Lives Records
- Harry James Orchestra
- Marie Janice
- Kathy Keegan
- Don Lee - Crescent Records
- Pat Longo Orchestra
- Los Angeles Police Band
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- Aldo Monaco
- New McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Bountiful Records
- Bobbe Norris
- Overture House Saxophone Quartet
- Roaring 20's Jazz Jubilee
- Red Cloud Revue
- Rhythm Kings
- Allan Ross
- Tom Saunders - Bountiful Records
- Del Shannon
- Sinseki Records, Seoul, Korea
AS MUSICAL DIRECTOR:
- Music of Bix Beiderbecke, Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, NYC
- Brew and Kangaroo, Dearborn, Mich.
- Bountiful Records, Detroit, Mich.
- Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival, Davenport, Iowa
- Breda, Netherlands Jazz Festival
- Chosun Hotel, Seoul, Korea
- Crescent Music Group, Beverly Hills, CA
- Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Hollywood Bowl
- Jazz Yesterday Show, National Public Radio
- KCET (Los Angeles Public TV) Christmas Festival
- Leland House, Detroit, MI
- Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival
- Marvel Enterprises, Los Angeles
- Montreaux Casino, Montreaux, Switzerland
- Nucleus Nuance, Hollywood, CA
- P'Jazz Series, Pontchartrain Hotel, Detroit, MI
- Music Of Don Redman, Detroit Institute of Arts
- Rex Ristorante, Los Angeles
- Sinseki Records, Seoul, Korea
- North Hollywood Charity Starscene
- Vegas Variety Show, Seoul, Korea
AS AN INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMER
- Angel City Jazz Band
- Austin - Moro Band
- Tex Beneke Orchestra
- Tony Bennett
- Chet Bogan's Wolverines
- Shirley Bassey
- Sidney Bechet
- Georg Brunis
- Bob Crosby Bobcats
- Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Don Cherry
- Bobby Darin
- Johnny Desmond
- Floyd Dixon Blues Band
- Wild Bill Davison
- Ray Eberle
- Bob Eberley
- Helen Forrest
- Merv Griffin Show
- Bob Hope
- Phil Harris
- Claude Hopkins Orchestra
- Pee Wee Hunt
- Dick Haymes
- Harry James Orchestra
- Conrad Janis Jazz Band
- Otis Johnsan Manhattans
- Le Jazz Hot
- King Cousins
- Max Kaminsky
- Frankie Laine
- Los Angeles County Fair
- Richard Maltby Orchestra
- Ralph Marterie Orchestra
- Billy May Orchestra
- Brother Jack McDuff
- Jimmy McPartland
- Glenn Miller Orchestra
- Mills Brothers
- Wes Montgomery
- Nicholas Brothers
- Dizzy Reece
- Alvino Rey Orchestra
- Rhythm Kings
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
- John Trudell Orchestra
- Dionne Warwick
- Ted Weems Orchestra
- Marty Wells Orchestra
- Jimmy Wilkins Orchestra
- Ian Whitcomb Orchestra
- Denny Zeitlin
FROM THE PRESS
“One of the most ambitious projects of the Newport Jazz Festival and its prestigious spin-off, the fund - run New York Jazz Repertory Company, was
the four part retrospective of Duke Ellington's music, from 1920 to 1940, at Carnegie Hall this year. In the 1920 concert, a 12-piece orchestra led by Dick Hyman and arranged by David Hutson faithfully
recreated such "lost" Ellingtonia as Harlem River Quiver, Sweet Jazz O'Mine, Jubilee Stomp, Birmingham Breakdown …”
"The first half of a one o'clock afternoon concert at Carnegie was played by a Detroit group called the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers which was led by
the alto saxophonist David Hutson, an estimable Charlie Parker disciple who used to be visible at sessions around New York nine or ten years ago... The brass section had bite, the ticking after - beat
rhythm section was just right, and the saxophones expertly maneuvered Redman’s complicated melodic figures."
- Whitney Balliet, THE NEW YORKER
"The band's members, led by David Hutson, an alto saxophonist and clarinetist, showed the benefits of a year and a half of steady playing together."
- John S. Wilson, NEW YORK TIMES
"The NYJRC’s rendition of Tommy Dorsey’s standards yesterday afternoon was adequate but unmoving… Actually the show was stolen by the New
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, a reincarnation of the Detroit band which was famous during the mid twenties. Seventy-six year old vocalist Dave Wilborn, who was with the original group, sang several numbers.
But the real star was the twelve piece band directed by David Hutson which perfectly recreated both the music and the mood of the 1920's."
Nathan Cobb, BOSTON GLOBE
"The New McKinney's are a group out of Detroit led by David Hutson, and their spirit and respect for the original band delighted everyone."
"In its broadest sense, the fact that McKinney's Cotton Pickers have been revitalized and that its conductor and clarinet soloist, David
Hutson, has high hopes for the group, is good news for those who have for years been hoping that the big old-style once again become a mainstay in American popular music.
Mr. Hutson is devoting all
his time to the Cotton Pickers and he's hopeful that his musicians will be able to do the same in the not too distant future …If you hear it this afternoon and it doesn't sound exactly like it did in
1928, it's deliberate. Mr. Hutson plays old-style jazz but he makes some concessions to the present. In the twenties and thirties, ballads were played rather quickly; Mr. Hutson has slowed them down. And
40 years ago trumpet players put on a mean vibrato. Mr. Hutson has seen to it that the current crop of Cotton Pickers have vibratos more in keeping with the times. Even at that, older people who hear
them play the old jazz sometimes get tears in their eyes, he says, remembering the good old days."
- Richard Severo, NEW YORK TIMES
"Joy reigns supreme in the music of the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers. Not the empty, fleeting joy of nostalgia or 'camp', but the joy inherent in the
work of professional quality jazzmen who are doing something which they like to do, which they know isn't easy, and which they know they can do well. Their work brings vitality and validity to the
two-beat early big band style… And for well-rehearsed, clean brass section work, grab the introduction on Who's Got It by David Hutson - a contemporary composition that catches the period perfectly.
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"When the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers play, they are not only reviving arrangements of the 20's and 30's, they are blowing some of the most
vital jazz of the 70's. They have some big advantages going for them. For one, the group works together regularly and they play as a single organism. Further, they have the advantage of drawing on
superior proven arrangements from a variety of sources. Leader David Hutson plays alto and solo clarinet parts. David is a working leader on the stand, playing well, introducing the songs amiably, and
keeping the band together and moving."
"David Hutson, jazz historian at radio station WDET and a reedman of considerable strength himself, told Jim Taylor of the Detroit Hot Jazz Society he'd
like to find Dave Wilborn, whom he'd heard was living in Detroit, for an interview. Taylor knows Wilborn and introduced him to Hutson. The old banjoist and the young historian listened to the original
records, gathered piles of faded McKinney’s Cotton Pickers arrangements and decided to assemble the New McKinney’s Cotton Pickers."
"Hutson… invited Wilborn to an interview on his WDET radio show, Jazz Yesterday.
On the show, Hutson says, I asked him ff he could still
sing. He said yes, so I started thinking. I had been wanting to get a band together, even if it was just a rehearsal band to play for our own pleasure. When we found Wilborn, we figured this would be the
way to do it - have him featured and try to play some of the old Cotton Pickers things… Maybe call our band the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers and maybe even get a job or two. It became bigger than we
ever expected it to be. We didn't have to do any selling at all. It kind of sold itself. We were in demand even before we ever played in public."
"At the Brew and Kangaroo, the cozy lodge in the basement of the Village Plaza, Michigan at Outer Drive, David Hutson, Charles Bowles, Orrin
Foslien, Clarence Isabell and Tony Pia were making the sweetest dance music this side of Guy Lombardo."
"David Hutson was the man of the hour during the first concert of the fifth international Old Style Jazz Festival held recently in Breda,
Holland. At one point during the concert the band built up to a climax that drove the audience to a five minute standing ovation and necessitated two encores at the end."
"David Hutson's New McKinney's Cotton Pickers, a stellar Detroit jazz fixture, were a hit on a recent European tour. They appeared at the Fifth
International Old Style Jazz Festival in Breda, the Netherlands, and were the opening attraction at a posh new Vegas-type casino in Montreanx, Switzerland. Their last European gig was at the Blues and
Jazz Club in Zurich. The rave notices they received are something else."
- Lawrence Carter, DETROIT NEWS
"Recreating is a risky business, fraught with peril. Here it’s for love, not money - a good chunk office Detroit dixielanders and some
ringers taking a shot at the Old Stuff. That it came off as well as it did surprises me; past disappointment in similar projects brought on the usual doubt when I learned of this venture to resurrect the
music of one of the great bands of the '20's. Hutson's proud, enthusiastic (he has a right) liner notes call for a grain of salt now and then, but in all it's a good job."
"Bountiful quickly followed its first NMCP album with a session that displays a rebuilt sax section and a new drummer, an improvement over the
status quo in both instances. With more bandstand time together, the NMCP is naturally more assured. To those already owning Volume One; you'll like this better, perhaps. To choose between file two: buy
this one first."
"David L. Hutson, the band's leader, is a driving post-Parker alto saxophonist. It's a thoroughly refreshing band both because its basic
material is not being played by anyone else these days and because it is warm, vital, and exciting on its own merits."
"The New McKinney's Cotton Pickers made its recording debut early this year with a highly impressive collection that showed both an absorption
of the old Cotton Pickers attack and an ability on the part of Hutson and others in the band to find other appropriate material from the period and to create new material that would give the band some
scope. There is a superb, driving original by David Hutson, Who's Got lt, that combines clean ensemble power with strong solos."
"After the steady flow of precise but bloodless studio recreations that the big bands of the thirties and forties have been subjected to
recently, it is both startling and refreshing to find a group of musicians recalling a band that nobody else has thought about (McKinney's Cotton Pickers), and doing it in such a way that the project
becomes more than mere capitalization on nostalgic memories.
Unlike most such revivalist bands, this one was not simply intent on copying its model note for note. Under the direction of David Hutson,
a young alto saxophonist with a strong contemporary style, it used Don Redman's old arrangements as the basis for its performances but left the soloists completely on their own."
“If you have Bountiful's first LP by David Hutson's New McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, you’ve doubtlessly been looking forward to their second.
You won't be disappointed with it. Good jazz doesn't become bad jazz as time passes. If decades-old music by Bix, Satchmo and others can still speak to us through their recordings, then contemporary
musicians should also be able to use the traditional idiom as a medium for living, breathing, creative, stimulating music - if they are willing to spend the time to understand the style well enough. You
disagree? I offer the NMCP as my exhibit A.”
"Although the Cotton Pickers followers are predominantly over 30, some young people are turning on to this unusual music form. In fact, the
band recently received the soul stamp of approval from the students at Southeastern High School following a performance there.”
(Another review of the NMCP Carnegie Hall concert):
“Saturday 7-6 and here come the big bands. They started off with the New McKinney's Cotton
Pickers. It may be heresy to say this but I like the new every bit as much as the old. David Hutson's recreations are fine in authenticity of style and feeling but they are not so tied in to the old band
that they are unable to stretch a bit and say some things that maybe couldn't have been gotten onto a three minute single.”
(The following four items about Music Of Bix Beiderbecke at Carnegie Hall, David Hutson, director.)
"Musically, it was an outstanding
evening, by far the most successful the Jazz Rep has had, and by far the most enthusiastically received."
"Replacing the Armstrong tribute in the opening slot will be a repeat of New York Jazz Repertory Company's Bix tribute with some of the same
stars (David Hutson, Joe Vanuti, Chauncey Morehouse, Warren Vache, Bill Rank, etc.)"
"Special honors went to David Hutson for his arrangements and alto sax playing."
"They were rehearsing for the first concert of the 1975 Jazz Festival. David Hutson, the music director, stood in the center of the room, alto
sax swaying slightly on his neck strap. 'Some of you were here before, but in case you didn't know we're playing the music of Bix Beiderbecke' he said. 'These arrangements we're playing are from the Jean
Goldkette Orchestra and the Wolverines.' Taciturn and blustery, with a violin propped under his chin, Joe Venuti, the seventy-one year old legendary jazz violinist, sat in a folding chair, his round
stomach bulging out against the music stand. As David Hutson explained one particularly difficult section, he was interrupted by Venuti, who shouted, 'Anything you don't understand, ask Jimmy
McPartland!' Sounds of laughter." (An entire chapter in this book chronicles this landmark concert.)
"'We came for the band,' says Dee Trent who drove in from Claremont with his wife Pat to see David Hutson's California Ramblers perform at
Nucleus Nuance earlier this week. 'We love this kind of music'. Although the Trents grew up during the original swing era, there is also a younger audience for the kind of swing jazz the Ramblers play
and that the Nuance frequently spotlights."
"In late January, 1917, five musicians from New Orleans known as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made their New York City debut at
Reisenweber's Cafe, causing quite a stir and according to some historians, ushering in the Jazz age'. The flavor of that evening was recreated Thursday at the Roof Garden of the Variety Arts Center.
Guest artists included saxophonists David Hutson and 85 year old Dixie vet Rosy McHargue."
"One of the groups that knocked me out during this year's Classic Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend in Los Angeles was the Rhythm Kings,
a 12-piece orchestra playing original arrangements from the 20's and 30's. David Hutson, who now plays lead alto sax in the Kings had transcribed some of the early Duke Ellington arrangements, Don Wolfe
discovered. 'We started getting together with some studio musicians once or twice a month. It was fantastic and we said we ought to do it in a club'… The sheer virtuosity of the players in the Rhythm
Kings is flabbergasting."
"David Hutson - my favorite throughout the night - was providing the sweet and swinging clarinet and alto sax solos."
OTHER HONORS:
CURRENTLY:
In March 1998 David Hutson and his wife Meeja moved from Los Angeles to the central Oregon Coast where he pursues his music career with a state of
the art computerized recording studio.
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