Teddy Wilson
Day 5
#100 – Theodore Shaw ‘Teddy’ Wilson (1912–1986).American jazz pianist. Recordings include: Teddy Wilson Featuring Billie Holiday (1949), Pres and Teddy (1956) and Gypsy in Jazz (1959).
Teddy Wilson was, in the words of one critic, ‘the definitive swing pianist’. With this in mind, I started by writing out the name in different ways. The word ‘Teddy’ fitted nicely into ‘Wilson’. By lifting the letters slightly and using black and white it started to look like a keyboard. Swing was big in the 1930s so the background colour was selected to reflect that era. A condensed typeface helped the keyboard idea and putting it on a slant gave it some ‘swing’. I tried a more 1930s style typeface but this looked less like a keyboard so stuck with the first choice.
2 hours
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘Pres and Teddy’