Some Jazz Figures

Viola Smith ~ 107 ~ Big Band drummer in all-girl band Frances Carroll & Her Coquettes and Ada Leonard & Her All-Girl Band from the 1940's onward, known as the "Female Gene Krupa", also played with Chic Webb & Ella Fitzgerald

FRANCES CARROLL & HER COQUETTES;


ADA LEONARD & HER ALL-GIRL BAND:


McCoy Tyner ~ 81 ~ Jazz pianist w/John Coltrane, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey, George Benson, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Turentine and solo

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET ~ "MY FAVORITE THINGS";


JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET ~ "IMPRESSIONS";


MCCOY TYNER QUINTET ~ "ATLANTIS";


Cleveland Eaton ~ 80 ~ American jazz bassist w/Ramsey Lewis & Count Basie

RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO ~ "THE IN CROWD";


Eugene Wright ~ 97 ~ Bassist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet

DAVE BRUBECK ~ "BLUE RONDO A'LA TURK";


DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET ~ "TAKE FIVE";


Jimmy Cobb ~ 91 ~ American jazz drummer w/Miles Davis Quintet, John Coletrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington

MILES DAVIS ~ "SO WHAT";


JOHN COLETRANE ~ "STARDUST";


Jymie Merritt ~ 93 ~ American jazz bassist w/Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Chet Baker, Sonny Clark, Lee Morgan, Max Roach, Jimmy Witherspoon, Wayne Shorter, The Forerunners

ART BLAKEY & JAZZ MESSENGERS ~ "MOANIN";


Harry Grimes ~ 87 ~ American Free Jazz bassist w/Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Mose Allison, Lee Konitz, Roy Haynes, Shafi Hadi, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Shirley Scott, Cecil Taylor, Lennie Tristano, McCoy Tyner and bandleader on ESP Records

SONNY ROLLINS ~ "LOVE LETTERS";


SONNY ROLLINS, DON CHERRY, HARRY GRIMES & BILLY HIGGINS;


Gary Peacock ~ 85 ~ American Jazz bassist w/Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Ralph Towner, Shorty Rogers, Ravi Shankar

GARY PEACOCK w/ SHORTY ROGERS;


Herman Green ~ 90 ~ Memphis jazz and blues saxophonist w/BB King & John Coletrane

HERMAN GREEN;


Hal Cornbread Singer ~ 100 ~ American R&B and Jazz saxophonist & band leader from the 1940's onward w/Duke Ellington, Jay McShann, Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Milt Buckner, Earl Fatha Hines, Roy Eldrich, Hot Lips Page and solo

HAL SINGER & RED ALLEN ~ "HAL SINGER'S BOOGIE";


HAL SINGER ~ "AUTUMN LEAVES";


Claude Bolling - 90 - French jazz pianist, band leader and composer (Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio)

CLAUDE BOLLING ~ "RAG TIME";


Harold Betters - 92 - American jazz trombonist and band leader from the 1950's solo and with Ray Charles, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Roy Eldridge, and Sonny Rollins

HAROLD BETTERS ~ "RAM-BUNK-SHUSH";


HAROLD BETTERS ~ "STAND BY ME";


HAROLD BETTERS ~ "TALL GIRL";


Stanley Cowell - 79 - American jazz pianist, from the 1960's onward w/Rasaan Roland Kirk, Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Heath Bros, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble and trumpeter Charles Tolliver & Music Inc, also co-founder of Strata-East Records

CHARLES TOLLIVER & MUSIC INC ~ "PRAYER FOR PEACE";


Giuseppi Logan ~ 84 ~ American Free Jazz saxplayer on ESP Records

GIUSEPPI LOGAN ~ "DANCE OF SATAN";


Danny Ray Thompson ~ 72 ~ American Jazz sax player with Sun Ra

SUN RA ~ "RETROSPECTIVE" & "FACE THE MUSIC";


SUN RA ~ "TAKE THE A TRAIN";


Overton Berry ~ 84 ~ Seattle based Soul Jazz pianist from the sixties onward

OVERTON BERRY ~ "HEY JUDE";


Cándido Camero ~ 99 ~ Cuban Jazz and Disco conga player and percussionist with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton and solo band leader

CANDIDO CAMERO ~ "MANTECA";


Jimmy Heath ~ 93 ~ American saxophonist with Jazz Fusion group the Heath Bros from the 1970's onward

THE HEATH BROS ~ "THERE'S A TIME & PLACE";


Othella Dallas ~ 95 ~ American Jazz singer & dancer

OTHELLA DALLAS;


Frank Kimbrough ~ 64 ~ American Post Bop Jazz pianist from the 1970's onward

FRANK KIMBROUGH ~ "ALABAMA SONG";


Wolfgang Dauner ~ 84 ~ German Jazz fusion pianist w/the Joki Freund Sextet in the 1960's and the United Jazz & Rock ensemble from the 1970's onward

JOKI FREUND SEXTET ~ "CARAVAN";


Richard Teitelbaum ~ 80 ~ American Avant Garde and Jazz Electronic player & composer w/Anthony Braxton and George Lewis

RICHARD TEITELBAUM ~ "DER GOLEM";