Roderick Victor Gaskin (November 23, 1934 – July 14, 2012) was an American jazz bassist. Gaskin was born in

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and moved to

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in 1962. He started playing with Paul Horn and Red Mitchell and went on to become one of many bass players for the

Jazz Crusaders The Crusaders (formerly known as The Jazz Crusaders) were an American jazz group that was successful from the 1960s to the 1990s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders from their formation in 1960 until shortening their name in 1971. The Cru ...

. He also recorded with

Curtis Amy Curtis Amy (October 11, 1929 – June 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Amy was born in Houston, Texas, United States. He learned how to play clarinet before joining the Army, and during his time in service, picked up the ten ...

and Dupree Bolton,Curtis Amy obituary at ''The Last Post''
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jazz scene, accompanying

Buddy Collette William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Early life William Marcel Collette was born in L ...

Shelly Manne Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984) was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, s ...

, and

Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thro ...

. Between 1966 and 1970, he was a member of

Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", whi ...

's groups, and in 1970 recorded with

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...

's octet, quintet, quartet and trio. He started playing with the

Billy Taylor Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the ...

Trio in the late 1970s, continuing until 1993, as well as with

Johnny Hartman John Maurice Hartman (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 1983) was an American jazz singer who specialized in ballads. He sang and recorded with Earl Hines' and Dizzy Gillespie's big bands and with Erroll Garner. Hartman is best remembered for hi ...

and

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 ...

. Between 1994 and 2001 Victor Gaskin was in Singapore and performed regularly at The Four Seasons Hotel with Boni de Souza & Friends for the iconic Sunday Jazz Brunch. They were pioneers of the Sunday Jazz Brunch scene in Singapore, setting the trend for other similar hotel offerings for years to come. During Victor's stay in Singapore, he was also featured on two jazz albums produced by Boni de Souza. The first was a Latin jazz-infused CD featuring Wendy Low (flute), Boni de Souza (piano), Gaskin (bass) and Sanip Ismail (drums). The second and more definitive offering was Eau de Vie featuring some original compositions by Boni de Souza as well as alternative arrangements of jazz standards which featured Gaskin, Farid Ali (guitar), de Souza, Low and Ismail, with various guest musicians. Gaskin died in

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*'' Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club''' (Capitol, 1966) *''

Cannonball in Japan ''Cannonball in Japan'' is a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Sankei Hall in Tokyo which was first released on the Japanese Capitol label in 1966 before being more widely released on CD in 1990.990 *'' 74 Miles Away'' (Capitol, 1967) With

Monty Alexander Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander (born 6 June 1944) is a Jamaican jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis ...

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'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) With

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Katanga! ''Katanga!'' is an album by saxophonist Curtis Amy recorded in early 1963 for the Pacific Jazz label.Hal Galper Harold Galper (born April 18, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, and writer. Biography He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Galper studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz wh ...

*'' The Guerilla Band'' (Mainstream, 1971) *''

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Once in Every Life ''Once in Every Life'' is an album by vocalist Johnny Hartman which was recorded in 1980 and released on the Bee Hive label.Paul Horn *''

Profile of a Jazz Musician ''Profile of a Jazz Musician'' is an album by Paul Horn which was originally released on the Columbia label in 1962.Pa ...

'' (Columbia, 1962) With

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The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse ''The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse'' is a live album by The Crusaders (Houston group), The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz Records, Pacific Jazz label.

'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) *'' The Thing'' (Pacific Jazz, 1965) With

Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (incl ...

and

Tamiko Jones Tamiko Jones (born Barbara Tamiko Ferguson, 1945) is an American singer. Her most successful record was "Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out For Your Love)" in 1975. Career Barbara Tamiko Ferguson was born in Kyle, West Virginia, and has part Japanese, ...

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A Mann & A Woman ''A Mann & A Woman'' is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann and vocalist Tamiko Jones released on the Atlantic label in 1967.John Mayall John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, musician and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among it ...

*''Moving On'' (Polydor, 1972) *''Ten Years Are Gone'' (Polydor, 1973) With

Les McCann Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler (2007), ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 448. Oxford University Press. Early life Les McCann was born in ...

*'' Spanish Onions'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) *''

A Bag of Gold ''A Bag of Gold'' is a live album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1960-64 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 3 stars. Track listing ''All comp ...

'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) *''

McCann/Wilson ''McCann/Wilson'' is an album by pianist Les McCann with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra recorded in 1964 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 3 stars. ...

'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) with the

Gerald Wilson Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. In addition to being a ...

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'' (Pacific Jazz, 1964) *'' But Not Really'' (Limelight, 1964) *''

Beaux J. Pooboo ''Beaux J. Pooboo'' is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1965 and released on the Limelight label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed March 8, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 3 stars stating "Les McCann's second album for ...

'' (Limelight, 1965) *''

Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole ''Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole'' is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded on New Year's Eve 1965 at Shelly's Manne-Hole and released on the Limelight Records, Limelight label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed March 8, 2016 Reception Allm ...

'' (Limelight, 1966) *''

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'' (Limelight, 1967) With

Susannah McCorkle Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz singer. Life and career A native of Berkeley, California, McCorkle studied Italian literature at the University of California at Berkeley before dropping out to move to E ...

*''As Time Goes By'' (CBS/Sony, 1986) With

Oliver Nelson Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album '' The Blues and the Abstract Truth'' (1961) is regarded as one of the most signifi ...

*'' Swiss Suite'' (Flying Dutchman, 1971) With

*''Live at Storyville'' (West 54, 1977) *''The Jazzmobile Allstars'' (Taylor Made, 1989) with

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 ...

, Jimmy Owens,

Ted Dunbar Earl Theodore Dunbar (January 17, 1937 – May 29, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. Career Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Dunbar trained as a pharmacist at Texas Southern University, but by the 1970s he only did pharma ...

and

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With

Buddy Terry Edlin "Buddy" Terry (January 30, 1941 - November 29, 2019) was an American jazz musician and alto/tenor sax player. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. In the 1960s and 1970s Terry made albums for Prestige Records and Mainstream Records. He played w ...

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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), Duke ...

*''Portraits'' (Chesky, 1989) With

Leon Thomas Amos Leon Thomas Jr. (October 4, 1937 – May 8, 1999), known professionally as Leon Thomas, was an American jazz and blues vocalist, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and known for his bellowing glottal-stop style of free jazz singing in the l ...

*'' Gold Sunrise on Magic Mountain'' (

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/Flying Dutchman, 1971) With

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 jazz, avant-garde. Willis was b ...

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Inner Crisis ''Inner Crisis'' is an album by American jazz pianist Larry Willis recorded in 1973 and released on the Groove Merchant label.Gerald Wilson Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. In addition to being a ...

*'' On Stage'' (Pacific Jazz, 1965) With

Attila Zoller Attila Cornelius Zoller (June 13, 1927 – January 25, 1998) was a Hungarian jazz guitarist. After World War II, he escaped the Soviet takeover of Hungary by fleeing through the mountains on foot into Austria. In 1959, he moved to the U.S., wher ...

*''Gypsy Cry'' (Embryo, 1969)

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Eau de Vie
(BDSMUSIC 2000)
Busy doing Something
(BDSMUSIC 1998)

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