Editing St. Albans, Queens (section)

=== Jazz legacy ===

Famous stride pianist [[Fats Waller]] was the first well-known musician to move into Addisleigh Park at the peak of his career in the late 1930s. Waller had grown up in the Church (his father was a pastor).<ref>{{cite book |last=DeVeaux |first=Scott |title=Jazz |year=2009 |publisher=W. W. Norton |page=170}}</ref>  He subsequently had his home in Addisleigh Park fashioned with a built-in Hammond organ.<ref name="forgotten-ny.com">{{cite web |url= http://forgotten-ny.com/tag/addisleigh-park/ |title=Addisleigh Park |work=Forgotten New York |year=2014 |access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref> He died in 1943 from bronchial pneumonia.

In 1937, jazz pianist and bandleader [[Count Basie]] moved his orchestra from Kansas City to New York. Count Basie's orchestra performed at world-famous Manhattan venues including the [[Roseland Ballroom]], the [[Savoy Ballroom]], and the Woodside Hotel. In 1946, Basie and his wife, Katy, bought a home in Addisleigh Park, where the couple lived until 1973 when it was sold to bandleader/singer/pianist, Robert (Bubber) Johnson.<ref>{{cite web |last=Adams |first=Michael Henry |title=Protecting the House Where Lena Lived! |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-henry-adams/protecting-the-house-wher_b_574420.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=May 17, 2010 |access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref>

Singer, film actress, and Civil Rights Activist [[Lena Horne]] also moved into the Addisleigh Park neighborhood in the year 1946.
Soon after Horne, jazz trumpeter and bandleader [[Mercer Ellington]], son of jazz great [[Duke Ellington]], moved into Addisleigh Park in 1948. Eight years earlier, he had worked for renowned jazz trumpeter [[Cootie Williams]] as his road manager. Cootie Williams bought a home in Addisleigh Park in 1947.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Black History Month |first=Gregory W. |last=Meeks |author-link=Gregory W. Meeks  |journal=Congressional Record |date=March 1, 2007 |volume=153 |issue=4 |page=5234 |isbn=978-0-16-086976-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExHp3NbxB4IC&q=cootie+williams+addisleigh+park&pg=PA5234}}</ref> While residing in Addisleigh Park, Mercer Ellington employed [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Kenny Dorham]], and [[Charles Mingus]]. Throughout the 1940s, Mercer and his father, Duke Ellington, frequently borrowed musicians from one another's ensembles.

Saxophonist [[Earl Bostic]] moved to Addisleigh Park in 1948, the same year Bostic's sextet hit success with their first single "Temptation".<ref>"178-16 Murdock Avenue, Home of Earl Bostic", Historic Districts Council (2014). Accessed June 20, 2014.</ref> Bostic was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the early 1930s, he played with Midwestern territory bands before moving to New York City in 1938 to play with Don Redman. Bostic's second hit, "Flamingo", was produced in 1951, while he was still living in Addisleigh Park. In 1956, Bostic and his wife left Addisleigh Park to settle in Los Angeles. Earl Bostic died onstage from a heart attack in Rochester, New York, in 1965.

Bostic's neighbors on Murdock Avenue were [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and her then-husband, famous bassist and cellist [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]]. Fitzgerald owned her Addisleigh Park home from 1949 until 1956.<ref>"179-07 Murdock Avenue, Home of Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown", Historic Districts Council (2014). Accessed June 20, 2014.</ref> During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Fitzgerald had become one of the most recognizable names of wide-release swing music in the United States. She met Brown in 1946 while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band.<ref name="ellafitzgerald">{{cite web |url=http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/biography.html |title=The Official Web Site of Ella Fitzgerald: Biography |work=ellafitzgerald.com |year=2013 |access-date=June 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627121606/http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/biography.html |archive-date=June 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The couple divorced in 1952.<ref name="ellafitzgerald" /> Between the years 1949 and 1956, Fitzgerald sang scat with various bebop bands. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dosomething.org/blog/chatterbox/change-maker-black-history-ella-fitzgerald |title=Change-maker in black history: Ella Fitzgerald |work=Do Something |year=2014 |access-date=June 20, 2014 |archive-date=May 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518211933/http://www.dosomething.org/blog/chatterbox/change-maker-black-history-ella-fitzgerald |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Vicksburg, Mississippi]], native and famous jazz bassist [[Milt Hinton]] moved into Addisleigh Park in 1950.<ref name="forgotten-ny.com" /> In his younger years, he had lived and worked in Chicago alongside celebrated jazz musicians Art Tatum and Eddie South. He moved to New York City for a job in Cab Calloway's orchestra in 1936. Hinton bought a home on 113th Avenue in Addisleigh Park in 1950. He lived in the neighborhood until his death in 2000.

Saxophonist [[John Coltrane]] bought a home on Mexico Street in Addisleigh Park in the year 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Lewis |title=John Coltrane: His Life and Music |year=1999 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=0-472-10161-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/johncoltranehisl00port/page/139 139] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/johncoltranehisl00port/page/139 }}</ref> Coltrane had just met tremendous critical success after his collaborations with [[Thelonious Monk]] and [[Miles Davis]]. In January 1960, Coltrane released ''[[Giant Steps]]'', his first album with Atlantic Records. ''Giant Steps'' is considered to be the album that catapulted Coltrane into jazz legend.