I’ve been helping the Jazz Church out (Saint Peter’s on East 54 Street between Lexington and Third Avenues) by helping them compile a list of Jazz artists who have performed/participated at the church in the half-century since the late Reverend John Garcia Gensel started the Jazz Ministry. Here is one of the lists that I have recalled and sent on to Saint Peter’s: BENNY ARONOV piano with Goodman EDDIE BAREFIELD sax w/ Ella, Cab, KC star, Brando CHARLIE BATEMAN piano with Louis’ at Carnegie Hall CLARENCE “Tootsie” BEAN drummer w/ The Countsmen AARON BELL Duke’s bassist WALTER BOLDEN drums w/Mulligan; Carmen McRae JIMMY BUTTS Bass recorded twice with Bird FRANK CANINO bass from LENNIE Tristano to John LENNON DAVE CARTER piano for John Gensel and the Jazz Church AL CASEY Fats Waller’s guitarist EDDIE CHAMBLEE Dinah Washington’s sax and husband RONNIE COLE drums for Louis (as did his Dad on sax) BILL DAVIS (bassist) Basie, Al Haig FRAN DEAN bass & vocal with Roy Hamilton; The West End JOE DUKES drummer of choice for the organ combos MORRIS EDWARDS bass and tuba – played with Monk BELTON EVANS Jazz drummer on many Rock’n’Roll discs JEFF FULLER bass with Joe Albany, Lou Donaldson GERALD GATTLING Earle Warren protégé LORRAINE GORDON Village Vanguard ERNIE HACKETT drums / Bobby’s son AL HAIG BIRD’S PIANIST SADIK HAKIM aka Argonne Thornton PREZ & BIRD AL HAREWOOD Mulligan, Getz, J&K HAYWOOD HENRY Bama State, Erskine Hawkins, Sun Ra DAVID JACKSON bass in Billie Holiday at Emerson’s Grill DILL JONES Welsh Jazz pianist w/Krupa and JPJ HERBIE JONES trumpet with Duke BROOKS KERR Duke Ellington protégé HOWARD KIMBO Brooklyn BeBop / Blakey JIMMY KNEPPER Charles Mingus’ trombone DON LANPHERE Fats Navarro WOODY HERMAN et al VICTOR LESSER Tristano / Warne Marsh JIMMY LEWIS Count Basie bassist CLYDE LUCAS Jonah Jones drums LAWRENCE LUCIE Satchmo, Billie, Jelly Roll WOW HAROLD MABERN Young Man from Memphis LOUIS METCALF Duke’s original Cotton Club trumpet DICKEY MYERS BeBop sax w/ Albany; Dexter JAMIL NASSER Young man From Memphis BOB NELOMS Mingus piano; on Stevie Wonder “Fingertips” BIG NICK NICHOLAS Coltrane’s Big Nick STASH {Stosh/Stanley} O’LOUGHLIN w/ Trane in Crosse CECIL PAYNE Dizzy Gillespie’s baritone sax VALERY PONOMAREV trumpet from Russia for Blakey LENNY POPKIN Lennie Tristano tenor sax / alto w/Lenox school JERRY POTTER drums w/Red Allen, gator tail, Army w/Prez BENNY POWELL trombone w/ Basie “April in Paris” EDDIE PRESTON trumpet w/ Basie, Ray Charles, Duke, Mingus RUSSELL PROCOPE w/ Duke 30 years / Kirby / Fletcher H RAM RAMIREZ wrote Loverman WAYMON REED trumpet w/ Basie; married to Sarah V NICHOLAS RODRIGUEZ with Jelly Roll / Benny Carter NORMAN SIMMONS piano Bird 1955 / Joe Williams HAROLD “Cornbread” SINGER – Cornbread hit / Duke Professor EDWARD SNEED bass w/Lunceford / first African American Fulbright scholar – wrote for Lovin’ Spoonful – poet Amsterdam News 1 GEORGE STUBBS pianist gigged w/ Prez BUDDY TATE tenor great w/ Basie FRANK TATE bass at Sweet Basil / Doc Cheatham GENE TAYLOR bassist with Horace Silver BROSS TOWNSEND pianist for original Birdland BILL TRIGLIA Mingus “Tijuana Moods” EARLE WARREN led reeds original Basie band RICHARD WILLIAMS trumpet w/Mingus ; Gil Evans REUBEN WILSON famed organist w/ Gator Tail Jackson 1 RICHARD WYANDS piano for Prestige Records; Mingus; Oliver Nelson
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:46:34 +0000
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