Eddie Duran
| Eddie Duran | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Edward Lozano Duran |
| Born |
September 6, 1925 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1940–present |
| Labels | Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Milestone |
| Associated acts | Mad Duran, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Tania Maria, Earl Hines |
Edward Lozano "Eddie" Duran (born September 6) in San Francisco) is an American virtuoso jazz guitarist based in San Francisco. His wife, Madaline "Mad" Duran," is a prolific jazz flutist and saxophonist and has been his main musical collaborator since 1983, when they were married. Eddie Duran has performed extensively in Bay Area and rarely tours; though he went out with Red Norvo and Benny Goodman.
Duran has been playing professionally for seventy-seven years — since he was fifteen; and he has performed and lived most of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has recorded as leader with Fantasy (1956), Concord Jazz (1979), Milestone (1996), and Mad and Eddie Duran Records, a private label that he and his wife, Madeleine Duran, launched to produce and distribute their works.
Around 1957, Duran was the guitarist in the CBS Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ray Hackett for the Bill Weaver Show, a variety show broadcast by CBS's San Francisco affiliate, KQW, later renamed KCBS, from the Palace Hotel on Jesse Street at New Montgomery Street. Regular vocalists on the show included Ree Brunell, Bob Callahan, Ellen Connor, Ardene DeCamp (also a violinist), and singer Stan Noonan. While playing with the CBS Orchestra, Duran met Brunell and performed on her debut album, Intro to Jazz of the Italian-American. The album was the first LP recorded by San Francisco Jazz Records, a short-lived label that had been part of the production of the radio station at the time.
Duran was a featured performer and recording artist with several notable jazz combos. In 1954 his friend Vince Guaraldi, who had been playing with Cal Tjader, started a trio with Duran and bassist Dean Riley. Guaraldi introduced Tjader to Duran and his two brothers, Carlos, a jazz pianist, and Manuel, a bassist. All three Duran brothers were members of Cal Tjader's Mambo Quintet in the mid 1950s.
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