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19-472: "Sugar-Foot Rag" (or Sugarfoot Rag) is a song written by Hank Garland and Vaughn Horton (given on Red Foley 's record label as George Vaughn; both were aliases for songwriter George Vaughn Horton ). It was originally recorded by Garland on August 26, 1949  ( 1949-08-26 ) , and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley on November 10, 1949  ( 1949-11-10 ) . It

38-800: A New Direction with Gary Burton on vibraphone, Joe Benjamin on double bass, and Joe Morello on drums. That session took place in Nashville in 1960. That same year, Garland, along with other members of the Nashville "A-Team" of session players, was invited to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival . For years, these musicians unwound by playing jazz after hours at Nashville's Carousel Club. The group included Gary Burton on vibes, guitarist Chet Atkins , pianist Floyd Cramer , saxophonist Boots Randolph , bassist Bob Moore , drummer Buddy Harman and African-American violinist Brenton Banks , who played in

57-844: A Rocket in My Pocket"; Lefty Frizzell 's "You're Humbuggin' Me"; Simon Crum 's "Stand Up, Sit Down, Shut Your Mouth"; and Johnnie Strickland 's (1935-1994) "She's Mine"; plus, seasonal staples " Jingle Bell Rock " with Bobby Helms , and Brenda Lee 's seasonal " Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree ". Don Gibson 's "Sweet Sweet Girl" and "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles"; Patsy Cline 's "Let the Teardrops Fall"; Ronnie Hawkins ' " Jambalaya "; and Faron Young 's "Alone with You" spotlighted Garland's guitar work. He played with George Shearing and Charlie Parker in New York and went on to record Jazz Winds from

76-865: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hank Garland The Hank Garland biopic Crazy was released in 2008. Born in Cowpens, South Carolina , Garland began playing guitar at the age of six, and began to appear on local radio shows at 12. At 14 he moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina where he met Don Reno who gave him lessons, and worked with him on the WSPA-FM station in Spartanburg, both playing lead guitar. He moved to Nashville at age 16, staying in Ma Upchurch's boarding house, where he roomed with Bob Moore and Dale Potter. At age 18, he recorded his million-selling hit " Sugarfoot Rag ". He appeared on

95-455: Is an American jazz vibraphonist , composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in jazz, as well as being a major figure in music education from his 30 years teaching at

114-418: Is known for his variation of traditional four-mallet grip which has come to be known as " Burton grip ", and is popular among jazz vibraphonists, as well as some concert marimbists, including Pius Cheung and Evelyn Glennie . From 2004 to 2008, Burton hosted a weekly jazz radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio . In 2011, he released his first album for Mack Avenue Records , entitled Common Ground , featuring

133-714: The Berklee College of Music . Burton was born in Anderson , Indiana, United States. Beginning music at six years old, he mostly taught himself to play marimba and vibraphone. He began studying piano at age sixteen while finishing high school at Princeton Community High School in Princeton , Indiana (1956–60). He has cited jazz pianist Bill Evans as the inspiration for his approach to the vibraphone . Burton attended Berklee College of Music in Boston , Massachusetts , in 1960–61 and

152-597: The Jubilee program with Grady Martin 's band and on The Eddy Arnold Show . Garland is perhaps best known for his Nashville studio work with Elvis Presley from 1958 to 1961 which produced such rock hits as: "I Need Your Love Tonight", "A Big Hunk o' Love", " I'm Coming Home", "I Got Stung", " A Fool Such As I ", "Stuck on You", " Little Sister ", " (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame ", and "I Feel So Bad". He worked with many country music and rock and roll musicians of

171-530: The jazz-rock fusion craze of the 1970s, the group's first album, Duster , combined jazz, country , and rock . However, some of Burton's previous albums (notably Tennessee Firebird and The Time Machine , both from 1966) had already shown his inclination toward such experimentation. After Coryell left the quartet in the late 1960s, Burton worked with guitarists Jerry Hahn , David Pritchard , Mick Goodrick , Pat Metheny , John Scofield , Wolfgang Muthspiel , Kurt Rosenwinkel , and Julian Lage . Burton

190-683: The New Gary Burton Quartet (with Julian Lage, Scott Colley, and Antonio Sanchez). In 2013, the group released Guided Tour , their second recording for Mack Avenue Records . Burton's autobiography, Learning to Listen , was published by Berklee Press in August 2013 and was voted "Jazz Book of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association . Burton retired from performing in March 2017 following

209-520: The Stan Kenton Clinic at Indiana University in 1960. He studied with Herb Pomeroy and soon befriended composer and arranger Michael Gibbs . After establishing his career during the 1960s, he returned to join the staff of Berklee from 1971 to 2004, serving first as professor, then dean, and executive vice president, during his last decade at the college. In 1989, Burton received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee. Early in his career, at

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228-616: The Woods in 1965. Burton described the album in his autobiography, Learning to Listen , as his "most ambitious effort at composing and arranging". Burton played with saxophonist Stan Getz from 1964 to 1966. It was during this time that he appeared with the band in the movie Get Yourself a College Girl , playing " Girl from Ipanema " with Astrud Gilberto . In 1967, he formed the Gary Burton Quartet with guitarist Larry Coryell , drummer Roy Haynes , and bassist Steve Swallow . Predating

247-728: The age of 38 in a car crash in Milwaukee , Wisconsin on December 2, 1965, Garland's parents took care of him until their deaths. He then went to live with his brother, Billy and wife Amy. Garland suffered from constant ill health in his later years and died in Orange Park, Florida on December 27, 2004, of complications from a staph infection. He was 74 years old. He is interred in Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Orange Park. Gary Burton Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943)

266-401: The behest of Nashville saxophonist Boots Randolph , Burton moved to Nashville, Tennessee and recorded with several musicians from the area, including guitarist Hank Garland , pianist Floyd Cramer and guitarist Chet Atkins . Burton toured the U.S. and Japan with pianist George Shearing . Shearing asked Burton to write a whole album of compositions for him which were released as Out of

285-507: The design of the Byrdland guitar, which derived from the Gibson L-5 , having a slimmer body and shorter scale for ease of playing. In September 1961, a car crash left Garland in a coma. He regained consciousness and recovered with the help of his wife, Evelyn, and two daughters, but due to a brain injury sustained in the car accident, he was unable to return to the studios. After Evelyn died at

304-446: The late 1950s and early 1960s, such as Patsy Cline , Brenda Lee , Mel Tillis , Marty Robbins , The Everly Brothers , Boots Randolph , Roy Orbison , Conway Twitty , and Moon Mullican . Garland's guitar drove such classic recordings as Little Jimmy Dickens ' "I Got a Hole in My Pocket"; Benny Joy 's "Bundle of Love" and "I'm Gonna Move"; Jimmy Lloyd's (recorded under pseudonym of ( Jimmie Logsdon ) "You're Gone Baby" and "I've Got

323-554: The string sections that adorned many Nashville recordings. RCA Victor had a mobile recording unit there to record their performance, but when rioting prematurely ended the festival, the group performed (with the tapes rolling) on the porch of the mansion where they were staying. The album was released as After the Riot in Newport . At the request of Gibson Guitar company president Ted McCarty , Garland and guitarist Billy Byrd influenced

342-544: Was also recorded by American country music artist Jerry Reed and released in November 1979 as the lead single from his album, Texas Bound and Flyin . The song reached a peak of number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 13 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. Junior Brown covered "Sugar Foot Rag" on his 1993 album Guit with It. This 1950s country song -related article

361-746: Was named DownBeat magazine's Jazzman of the Year in 1968 (the youngest to receive that title) and won his first Grammy Award in 1972. The following year Burton began a forty-year collaboration with pianist Chick Corea , recognized for popularizing the format of jazz duet performance. Their eight albums won Grammy Awards in 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2009, and 2013. Burton has played with a wide variety of jazz musicians, including Gato Barbieri , Carla Bley , Chick Corea , Peter Erskine , Stan Getz , Hank Garland , Stephane Grappelli , Herbie Hancock , Keith Jarrett , B. B. King , Steve Lacy , Pat Metheny , Makoto Ozone , Tiger Okoshi , Astor Piazzolla , Tommy Smith , Ralph Towner , and Eberhard Weber . Burton

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