Joseph Dwight Newman (September 7, 1922 – July 4, 1992) was an American
jazz
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trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known as a musician who worked with
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
Louisiana
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, to Dwight, (pianist) and Louise Newman, a musical family, having his first music lessons from David Jones. He attended
Alabama State College
Alabama State University (ASU) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, ASU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
History
Alabama State University was founded in 1867 as the Lin ...
, where he joined the college band (the
Bama State Collegians
The Bama State Collegians is a student jazz orchestra made up of students at Alabama State University. This group was organized in the late 1920s by Len Bowden, Fess Whatley, and Paul Bascomb. Bowden went on to direct the Navy's music program at C ...
), became its leader, and took it on tour.
Career
In 1941, he joined
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles ...
for two years, before signing with
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
, with whom he stayed for a total of thirteen years, interrupted by short breaks and a long period (1947–1952) spent first with saxophonist
Illinois Jacquet
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Although he was a pioneer of ...
and then drummer
J. C. Heard
James Charles Heard (August 10, 1917 – September 27, 1988) was an American swing, bop, and blues drummer.
Biography
Heard was born in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. As a young child, he performed as a tap dancer in a ...
. During his second period with Basie, which lasted for about nine years, he made a number of small-group recordings as the leader. He also played on
Benny Goodman
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From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His conc ...
's 1962 tour of the
Soviet Union
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.
In 1961, Newman left the Basie band and helped to found Jazz Interactions, of which he became president in 1967. His wife, Rigmor Alfredsson Newman, was the Executive Director. Jazz Interactions was a charitable organization which provided an information service, brought jazz master classes into schools and colleges, and later maintained its own Jazz Interaction Orchestra (for which Newman wrote).
In the 1970s and 1980s, Newman toured internationally and recorded for several record labels.
Personal life
Newman suffered a stroke in 1991, however, which seriously disabled him, and he died of complications from the condition in 1992.
Discography
As leader
*1954: ''Joe Newman and His Band'' (Vanguard)
*1954: ''Joe Newman and the Boys in the Band'' (Storyville)
*1955: '' All I Wanna Do Is Swing'' (RCA Victor)
*1955: ''
The Count's Men
''The Count's Men'' (also released as ''Swing Lightly'') is an album by alumni of the Count Basie Orchestra led by jazz trumpeter Joe Newman and recorded in 1955 for the mail order Jazztone label.Cohen, N.Benny Powell discographyaccessed Decembe ...
'' ( Jazztone) also released as ''Swing Lightly''
*1955: ''
I'm Still Swinging
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''New Sounds in Swing'' (also released as ''Byers' Guide'') is an album by jazz trumpeter Joe Newman and trombonist Billy Byers recorded in 1956 for the mail order Jazztone label.
Billy Byers
William Mitchell Byers (May 1, 1927 – May 1, 1996) was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.
Early life
Byers was born in Los Angeles on May 1, 1927. He suffered from arthritis from a young age and was unable to continue his plans of a care ...
also released as ''Byers' Guide''
*1956: '' Salute to Satch'' (RCA Victor)
*1956: ''
I Feel Like a Newman
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*1957: ''
Locking Horns
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*1957: ''
The Happy Cats
''The Happy Cats'' is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman's Sextet recorded in early 1957 for the Coral label.Edwards, D., Eyries, P., Watts, R, Neely, T. & Callahan, M.Coral Album Discography accessed December 7, 2015
Reception
Allmusic gave the ...
Good 'n' Groovy
''Good 'n' Groovy'' is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman with saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Swingville label.Joe's Hap'nin's'' (Swingville)
*1961: '' Joe Newman Quintet at Count Basie's'' (Mercury)
*1962: ''In a Mellow Mood'' ( Stash)
*196?: ''Shiny Stockings'' (Honey Dew)
*1975: ''Satchmo Remembered'' (Atlantic)
*1977: ''At the Atlantic'' (Phontastic)
*1978: ''I Love My Baby'' (Black & Blue)
*1984: '' Hangin' Out'' (Concord) with
Joe Wilder
Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored h ...
*1989: ''Midgets'' (Panton)
*1992: ''A Grand Night for Swingin': The Joe Newman Memorial Album'' (Natasha)
*1994: ''Jazz for Playboys'' (Savoy)
*1999: ''In Sweden'' (Jazz Information)
*2003: ''Jazz in Paris: Jazz at Midnight'' (Sunnyside)
As sideman
With
Manny Albam
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Early life
A native of the Dominican Republic, Albam grew up in New York City. He was attracted to jazz at an ea ...
Brass on Fire
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'' (Sold State, 1966)
*''
The Soul of the City
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'' (Solid State, 1966)
With
Lorez Alexandria
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Gene Ammons
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Jack McDuff
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With the
Count Basie Orchestra
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Ella Fitzgerald
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and Joe Williams
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Hall of Fame
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Basie in London
''Basie in London'' is a 1956 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded (despite the inaccurate album title) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Track listing
# "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie, Jon Hendricks) – 3:38
# "Shiny Stockings" ...
'' (Verve, 1956)
*''
One O'Clock Jump
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Background
The melody derived from band members' riffs—Basie rarely wrote down musical ideas, so Eddie Durham and Buster Smith helped him cry ...
'' (Verve, 1957) with Joe Williams and Ella Fitzgerald
*''
Count Basie at Newport
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'' (Verve, 1957)
*''
The Atomic Mr. Basie
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'' (Roulette, 1957) aka ''Basie'' and ''E=MC2''
*''
Basie Plays Hefti
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'' (Roulette, 1958)
*''
Sing Along with Basie
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'' (Roulette, 1958) - with Joe Williams and
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
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The group formed in 1957 and recorded their f ...
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Basie One More Time
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'' (Roulette, 1959)
*''
Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
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Dance Along with Basie
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Reception
The album won the Best Performance by a Band for Dan ...
'' (Roulette, 1959)
*''
Not Now, I'll Tell You When
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Reception
...
'' (Roulette, 1960)
*''
The Count Basie Story
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and first released on ...
'' (Roulette, 1960)
*''
Kansas City Suite
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'' (Roulette, 1960)
*''
Back with Basie
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'' (Roulette, 1962)
*''
High Voltage
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'' (MPS, 1970)
With
Louis Bellson
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and
Gene Krupa
Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973), known as Gene Krupa, was an American jazz drummer, bandleader and composer who performed with energy and showmanship. His drum solo on Benny Goodman's 1937 recording of " Sing, Sing, ...
*''
The Mighty Two
Track listing
#"Rent Man / Resident Area" - Black Uhuru / Jah Grundy – 7:18
#"Heavy Manners" - Prince Far-I – 3:16
#"Rockers" - Glen Washington – 2:34
#"Rockers Dub" - Joe Gibbs and The Professionals – 2:45
#"Navel String" - Dennis W ...
'' (Roulette, 1963)
With
Bob Brookmeyer
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Jazz Is a Kick
''Jazz Is a Kick'' is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger Bob Brookmeyer recorded in 1960 for the Mercury label.Edwards, D., Callahan, M., Watts, Watts, R & Eyries, PMercury Album Discography, Part 8: MG-20600/SR-60600 to MG-20799/SR-60799 M ...
'' (Mercury, 1960)
*''
Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments
''Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments'' is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger Bob Brookmeyer recorded in 1961 for the Verve label. Brookmeyer said: "I consider it my pride and joy. I took many creative risks here, most based on the heels ...
'' (Verve, 1961)
With
Ray Bryant
Raphael Homer "Ray" Bryant (December 24, 1931 – June 2, 2011) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Early life
Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 24, 1931. His mother was an ordained minister who had tau ...
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Dancing the Big Twist
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With
Benny Carter
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Buck Clayton
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The Huckle-Buck and Robbins' Nest
''The Huckle-Buck and Robbins' Nest'' is an album by trumpeter Buck Clayton which was recorded in 1953 and released on the Columbia label.How Hi the Fi
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'' (Columbia, 1955)
*''
All the Cats Join In
''All the Cats Join In'' is a song written by Ray Gilbert, Eddie Sauter and Alec Wilder, and first recorded by Benny Goodman. It later was a track on an LP with the same title by trumpeter Buck Clayton.
Benny Goodman
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'' (Columbia 1956)
*''Jam Session #1'' (
Chiaroscuro
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, 1974)
*''Jam Session #2'' (
Chiaroscuro
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, 1975)
With
Arnett Cobb
Arnett Cleophus Cobb (August 10, 1918 – March 24, 1989) accessed July 2010. was an American tenor saxophonist, somet ...
Al Cohn
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*''
Mr. Music
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Four Brass One Tenor
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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Count Basie
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With
Bo Diddley
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Big Bad Bo
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'' (Chess, 1974)
With
Dexter Gordon
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- guest on 1 track
With
Freddie Green
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Early life and education
Green was born in Charleston, South Car ...
Al Grey
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Care ...
Eddie Harris
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The Electrifying Eddie Harris
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'' (Atlantic, 1967)
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Plug Me In
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'' (Atlantic, 1968)
*''
Silver Cycles
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'' (Atlantic, 1968)
With
Coleman Hawkins
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Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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Background
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'' (Swingville, 1961) as part of the Prestige Swing Festival
With
Johnny Hodges
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Milt Jackson
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Illinois Jacquet
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Budd Johnson
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Off the Wall
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'' (Argo, 1964)
With
J. J. Johnson
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Johnson was one of the earliest trombonists to embrace bebop.
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Quincy Jones
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The Birth of a Band!
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With
Irene Kral
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Part of the Search
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Junior Mance
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Mance was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was five years old, Mance st ...
Herbie Mann
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Our Mann Flute
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Gary McFarland
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Clark Terry
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Jimmy McGriff
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A Bag Full of Blues
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'' (Solid State, 1967)
With
Jay McShann
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Modern Jazz Quartet
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Plastic Dreams
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Oliver Nelson
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Main Stem
In hydrology, a mainstem (or trunk) is "the primary downstream segment of a river, as contrasted to its tributaries". Water enters the mainstem from the river's drainage basin, the land area through which the mainstem and its tributaries flow. ...
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Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle
''Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle'' is an album by American jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist Oliver Nelson, featuring solos by Nelson and Phil Woods, recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.
Hank Jones
Henry Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored ...
The Sound of Feeling
''The Sound of Feeling'' (full title ''Leonard Feather Presents The Sound of Feeling and The Sound of Oliver Nelson'') is a jazz album featuring two separate groups featuring Oliver Nelson recorded in late 1966 and released on the Verve label.
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David "Fathead" Newman
David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s an ...
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, ...
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The Wailing Buddy Rich
''The Wailing Buddy Rich'' is an album by jazz drummer Buddy Rich, released in 1955 on Norgran Records. The first two tracks were recorded on May 16, 1955, in New York; the remaining tracks were recorded with different personnel in Los Angeles o ...
Groove Merchant
Groove Merchant was an American jazz and R&B record label during the 1970s. It was run by producer Sonny Lester and distributed by Pickwick Records. Notable artists included Chick Corea, O'Donel Levy, Buddy Rich, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith ...
Hoochie Coochie Man
"Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a sto ...
I Want a Country Man
''I Want a Country Man'' is an album by American jazz vocalist Dakota Staton recorded in 1973 and released on the Groove Merchant label.Sonny Stitt
Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/ hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of h ...
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Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope () is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of these mirrors are shown as a regular symmetrical pattern when v ...
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957
Year 957 ( CMLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* September 6 – Liudolf, the eldest son of King Otto I, dies of a violent fever ne ...
Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duk ...
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Chico O'Farrill
Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (October 28, 1921 – June 27, 2001) was a Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor, best known for his work in the Latin idiom, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz or "Cubop", although he also composed traditional jazz pieces a ...
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Spanish Rice
Mexican rice (sometimes referred to as Spanish rice or red rice in Tex-Mex cuisine), also known as ''arroz a la mexicana'', ''arroz mexicano'', or ''arroz rojo'' in Spanish, is a Mexican side dish made from white rice, tomato, garlic, onion, a ...
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Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was a ...
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Clean Head's Back in Town
''Clean Head's Back in Town'', subtitled ''Eddie Vinson Sings'', is an album by the American saxophonist and vocalist Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. Recorded in 1957, it was released by Bethlehem Records.Frank Wess
Frank Wellington Wess (January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. In addition to his extensive solo work, Wess is remembered for his time in Count Basie's band from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Critic ...
Larry Willis
Lawrence Elliott Willis (December 20, 1942 – September 29, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop, and avant-garde.
Willis was born in New York Ci ...
Kai Winding
Kai Chresten Winding ( ; May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983) was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the theme from the movie '' Mondo Ca ...