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Hank Crawford

Index Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. (December 21, 1934 – January 29, 2009) was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter. [1]

72 relations: After Hours (Hank Crawford album), Atlantic Records, B.B. King, Ben Branch, Billboard (magazine), Breakout (Johnny Hammond album), Buddah Records, Calvin Newborn, Charlie Parker, CTI Records, David "Fathead" Newman, David Sanborn, Dig These Blues, Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing (album), Double Cross (album), Dr. John, Duke Ellington, Earl Bostic, Easy (Grant Green album), Eric Clapton, Etta James, Fathead Comes On, From the Heart (Hank Crawford album), Grant Green, Hank Crawford's Back, Hard bop, Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford album), I Hear a Symphony (Hank Crawford album), Ike Turner, It's a Funky Thing to Do, Janis Siegel, Jazz-funk, Jimmy McGriff, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Johnny Hodges, Journeyman (album), Let the Good Times Roll (album), Lou Rawls, Louis Jordan, Melvin Sparks, Memphis, Tennessee, Midnight Ramble (album), Milestone Records, Misty (song), Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, More Soul, Mr. Blues, Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul, Mr. Chips (album), Nashville, Tennessee, ..., Ray Charles, Ray Charles at Newport, Ray Charles in Person, Rhythm and blues, Richie Cole (musician), Ronnie Cuber, Shirley Scott, Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes, Soul jazz, Soul of the Ballad, Tadd Dameron, Telarc International Corporation, Tennessee State University, The Right Time (Etta James album), The Soul Clinic, There Must Be a Better World Somewhere, Tico Rico, True Blue (Hank Crawford album), We Got a Good Thing Going, What'd I Say (album), Whispering Grass, Wildflower (Hank Crawford album). Expand index (22 more) »

After Hours (Hank Crawford album)

After Hours is the seventh album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1964 and 1965 for the Atlantic label.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Ben Branch

Ben F. Branch (January 8, 1928 – August 27, 1987) Chicago Tribune, August 28, 1987 was an American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist, and bandleader.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Breakout (Johnny Hammond album)

Breakout is an album by jazz organist Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label in 1971.

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Buddah Records

Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.

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Calvin Newborn

Edwin Calvin Newborn (born April 27, 1933, Whiteville, Tennessee, is an American jazz guitarist.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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CTI Records

CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) is a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor.

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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 and early 1960s recordings by singer-pianist Ray Charles.

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Dig These Blues

Dig These Blues is the sixth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1964 and 1965 for the Atlantic label.

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Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing (album)

Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing is a soul-jazz album by saxophonist Hank Crawford, released in 1975 on Kudu Records.

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Double Cross (album)

Double Cross is the ninth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1965 and 1967 for the Atlantic label.

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Dr. John

Malcolm John Rebennack (born November 21, 1940), better known by his stage name Dr.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Earl Bostic

Eugene Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and a pioneer of the post-war American rhythm and blues style.

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Easy (Grant Green album)

Easy (also released as Last Session) is the final album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1978, a few months before his death, and released on the Versatile label.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.

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Fathead Comes On

Fathead Comes On is an album by saxophonist Dave Newman featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Atlantic label.

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From the Heart (Hank Crawford album)

From the Heart is the third album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1961 and 1962 for the Atlantic label.

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Grant Green

Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Hank Crawford's Back

Hank Crawford's Back is the seventeenth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his sixth for the Kudu label which was released in 1976.

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford album)

Help Me Make It Through the Night is the twelfth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his first released on the Kudu label in 1972.

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I Hear a Symphony (Hank Crawford album)

I Hear a Symphony is the sixteenth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his fifth released on the Kudu label in 1973.

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Ike Turner

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer.

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It's a Funky Thing to Do

It's a Funky Thing to Do is the eleventh album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford which was released on the Cotillion label in 1971.

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Janis Siegel

Janis Siegel (born July 23, 1952) is an American jazz singer with the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer.

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Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds and an early prevalence of analog synthesizers.

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Jimmy McGriff

James Harrell McGriff (April 3, 1936 – May 24, 2008) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader.

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Johnny "Hammond" Smith

John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith (December 16, 1933 – June 4, 1997) was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist.

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Johnny Hodges

John Cornelius Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.

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Journeyman (album)

Journeyman is a 1989 album by Eric Clapton.

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Let the Good Times Roll (album)

Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan is the thirty seventh studio album by B. B. King, released in 1999.

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Lou Rawls

Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and record producer.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Melvin Sparks

Melvin Sparks (March 22, 1946 – March 15, 2011) was an American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Midnight Ramble (album)

Midnight Ramble is a soul-jazz album by saxophonist Hank Crawford.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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Misty (song)

"Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by pianist Erroll Garner.

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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter and musician Ray Charles.

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More Soul

More Soul is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Crawford.

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Mr. Blues

Mr.

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Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul

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Mr. Chips (album)

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Ray Charles at Newport

Ray Charles at Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

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Ray Charles in Person

In Person is a live album recorded by Ray Charles on May 28, 1959 on a rainy night in Atlanta, Georgia at Morris Brown College's Herndon Stadium.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richie Cole (musician)

Richie Cole (born February 29, 1948) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Ronnie Cuber

Ronald Edward Cuber (born December 25, 1941) is a jazz saxophonist.

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Shirley Scott

Shirley Scott (March 14, 1934 – March 10, 2002) - accessed May 2010 was an African-American hard bop and soul-jazz organist.

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Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes

Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes is an album by organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1969 and released on the Atlantic label.

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Soul jazz

Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.

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Soul of the Ballad

Soul of the Ballad is an album by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances backed by the Marty Paich Orchestra recorded in 1963 for the Atlantic label.

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Tadd Dameron

Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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Tennessee State University

Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State or TSU) is a public land-grant university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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The Right Time (Etta James album)

The Right Time is the nineteenth studio album by Etta James, released in 1992.

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The Soul Clinic

The Soul Clinic is the second album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1961 (with one track from 1960) for the Atlantic label.

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There Must Be a Better World Somewhere

There Must Be a Better World Somewhere is the twenty seventh studio album by B. B. King released in 1981.

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Tico Rico

Tico Rico is a 1977 jazz/funk album recorded by saxophonist Hank Crawford and produced by Creed Taylor on the Kudu Records label.

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True Blue (Hank Crawford album)

True Blue is the fifth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford featuring performances recorded in 1963 and 1964 for the Atlantic label.

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We Got a Good Thing Going

We Got a Good Thing Going is the thirteenth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his second release on the Kudu label.

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What'd I Say (album)

What'd I Say is the fifth studio album recorded by Ray Charles, and was released in 1959.

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Whispering Grass

"Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)" is a popular song written by Fred Fisher and his daughter Doris Fisher.

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Wildflower (Hank Crawford album)

Wildflower is the fourteenth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his third released on the Kudu label in 1973.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford

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