In the collection
5 records
Played with
Arif Mardin
4 records together
King Curtis
3 records together
Jerry Jemmott
3 records together
Garnett Brown
3 records together
Jerry Wexler
3 records together
Cornell Dupree
3 records together
Donny Hathaway
2 records together
Bernard Purdie
2 records together
Billy Butler
2 records together
Benny Powell
2 records together
Ernie Royal
2 records together
Cissy Houston
2 records together
About
American jazz trumpeter and composer
Born 7 September 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died 4 July 1992 in New York, New York
Member of Lionel Hampton’s orchestra in 1941/1942, and - with some interruptions - a member of Count Basie’s orchestra from December 1943 until January 1961. In 1961 he co-founded Jazz Interactions, a New York-based organisation promoting jazz on an educational basis which he would later be president of.