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Greer featured in the 1958 black-and-white photograph by Art Kane known as "A Great Day in Harlem". He was part of a tribute to Ellington in 1974, which achieved great success throughout the United States. Greer died of a heart attack on March 23, 1982, at Lenox Hill, Manhattan, and is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.
Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart, Wallace Jones (t), Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Juan Tizol (tb), Barney Bigard (cl, ts), Otto Hardwicke (as), Johnny Hodges (as, ss), Harry Carney (bar, cl, as), Duke Ellington (p), Billy Taylor (sb), Sonny Greer (d), Ivie Anderson (vo). Ritz Carlton, Boston, July 26, 1939. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (Ellington) 1:01.
Sonny Greer, 1943. William Alexander „Sonny“ Greer (* 13. Dezember 1895 in Long Branch, New Jersey; † 23. März 1982) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz - Schlagzeuger in der Band von Duke Ellington .
The Duke In Boston, 1939-1940 performed by Duke Ellington, 1899-1974, Harry Carney, 1910-1974, Johnny Hodges, 1906-1970, Sonny Greer, Otto 'Toby' Hardwick, Barney Bigard, 1906-1980, Tricky Sam Nanton, 1904-1946, Juan Tizol, 1900-1984, Lawrence Brown, 1907-1988, Cootie Williams, 1911-1985, Rex Stewart, 1907-1967 and Wallace Jones, 1906-1983 ...
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Sonny Greer was a heavy drinker, and in 1950, Duke Ellington responded to his drinking and occasional unreliability by taking a second drummer, Butch Ballard, with them on a tour of Scandinavia. This enraged Sonny, and the consequent argument led to their permanent estrangement. In 1951, Sonny Greer left the Ellington band along with Lawrence ...
3. Nov. 2017 · William Alexander Greer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on December 13, 1895, the son of a railroad master-electrician and a dressmaker. Like innumerable drummers before and since, he began at home on pots and pans, whilst spending the rest of his early years working variously as newsboy, fish seller and golf caddy.
