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Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band.〔Jeff Kitts and Brad Tolinski, ''Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'', Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002, p. 37.〕 Sumlin was listed as number 43 in the ''Rolling Stone'' ''100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time''. ==Biography== Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, Sumlin was raised in Hughes, Arkansas. He got his first guitar when he was eight years old. As a boy, Sumlin first met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. When Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, his long-time guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. Upon his arrival in Chicago, Wolf first hired Chicago guitarist Jody Williams, and in 1954 Wolf invited Sumlin to relocate to Chicago to play second guitar in his Chicago-based band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent Sumlin to a classical guitar instructor at the Chicago Conservatory of Music for a while to learn the keyboards and scales. Sumlin played on the album ''Howlin' Wolf'', also called ''The Rockin' Chair Album'', which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by ''Mojo'' magazine in 2004. Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued on with several other members of Wolf's band under the name "The Wolf Pack" until about 1980. Sumlin also recorded under his own name, beginning with a session from a tour of Europe with Wolf in 1964. His final solo effort was ''About Them Shoes'', released in 2004 by Tone-Cool Records. He underwent lung removal surgery the same year, yet continued performing until just before his death. His final recording, just days before his demise, were tracks laid down for the Stephen Dale Petit album "Cracking The Code" (333 Records). Sumlin was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2008. He was nominated for four Grammy Awards: in 1999 for the album ''Tribute to Howlin' Wolf'' with Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Linden, in 2000 for ''Legends'' with Pinetop Perkins, in 2006 for his solo project ''About Them Shoes'' (which featured performances by Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm, David Johansen and James Cotton) and in 2010 for his participation on Kenny Wayne Shepherd's ''Live! in Chicago''. He won multiple Blues Music Awards, and was a judge for the fifth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. A resident of Totowa, New Jersey for 10 years before his death,〔Shapiro, T. Rees, via ''Washington Post'' News Service. ("Totowa's Hubert Sumlin, influential blues guitarist, dies at 80" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', December 7, 2011. Accessed January 28, 2015. "Born in Greenwood, Miss., Mr. Sumlin lived in Milwaukee for most of his life before moving to Totowa 10 years ago."〕 Sumlin died on December 4, 2011, in a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey, of heart failure at the age of 80. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid Sumlin's funeral costs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hubert Sumlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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