During this time, she heard Charlie Christian play electric guitar in Al Trent's band at a stop in Bismarck. Īt the age of fifteen, Osborne joined a trio led by pianist Winifred McDonnell, for which she played guitar, double bass, and sang. The music she was playing during this time period was largely "hillbilly", or country music, in which the guitar was simply used to accompany her own vocals. At twelve she started her own trio of girls to perform in Bismarck, North Dakota. She also came to be featured on her own radio program, which she would continue to perform on twice weekly until she was fifteen. At ten, she started playing banjo in her father's ragtime band. At age nine, she first played the guitar.
Osborne's earliest instruments included piano, ukulele, violin, and banjo. : 260 As early as 3 years of age, she showed an interest in music. Her family was musically inclined her mother played guitar and her father, in addition to constructing violins, allowed his barbershop to be the meeting place for the town's musicians. Osborne was born in Minot, North Dakota, the tenth of eleven children. After moving to California in 1968, she and her husband founded the Osborne Guitar Company. In New York City during the 1940s, she played with jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk. She began performing at a young age and was featured on a radio program in North Dakota, where she grew up. Mary Osborne (J– March 4, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist and guitar manufacturer.
0 kommentar(er)
