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Julius Watkins

Index Julius Watkins

Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician, and one of the first French horn players in jazz. [1]

154 relations: A Sure Thing, Africa/Brass, Afro/American Sketches, Art Blakey, Art Farmer, At Basin Street East (Billy Eckstine and Quincy Jones album), Benny Bailey, Benny Golson, Benny Golson's New York Scene, Beverly Kenney, Big Band Bossa Nova, Big Brass, Billy Byers, Billy Eckstine, Billy Taylor, Blue Mitchell, Blue Note Records, Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album), Brass Shout, Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band!, Cal Massey, Capitol Records, Change of Pace, Charles McPherson (musician), Charles Mingus, Charlie Rouse, Chico O'Farrill, Clark Terry, Clifford Jordan, Color Changes, Consummation (album), Cornish College of the Arts, Cuban Fire!, Curtis Fuller, Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns, David "Fathead" Newman, Detroit, Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, DownBeat, Ernie Fields, For Someone I Love, Freddie Hubbard, French horn, French Horns for My Lady, Gene Quill, George Coleman, George Shearing, Gigi Gryce, Gil Evans, ..., Gil Mellé, Gil's Guests, Gillespiana, Golden Boy (Art Blakey album), Guitar Forms, Hampton Hawes, Harold Mabern, Herbie Mann, Highlife (album), I Dig Dancers, Impulse! Records, Jazz, Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Jazz Goes to the Movies, Jazz Lab, Jimmy Heath, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Johnny Richards, Julius Watkins Sextet, Karma (Pharoah Sanders album), Kenny Burrell, Kenny Clarke, Kwamina (album), Larry Ridley, Left & Right (album), Les Jazz Modes, Les Spann, Let My Children Hear Music, Manhattan School of Music, Manny Albam, Mary Lou Williams, Mat Mathews, McCoy Tyner, Meet Milt Jackson, Mel Lewis, Michel Legrand, Michigan, Miles Davis, Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall, Milt Jackson, Modern Jazz Perspective, Monk (1954 album), Mood in Scarlet, Music Written for Monterey 1965, Musician, New Bottle Old Wine, New Life (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra album), New Sounds by Pete Rugolo, New York City, Newport '61, Nica's Tempo, Nine Flags, Oliver Nelson, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford, Oscar Pettiford (album), Pete Rugolo, Pharoah Sanders, Phil Woods, Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album), Prestige Records, Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album), Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits, Quincy Plays for Pussycats, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Randy Weston, Rights of Swing, Roll 'Em Bags, Rugolomania, Seattle, Short Hills, New Jersey, Song of the New World, Stan Kenton, Suite for Pops, Swamp Seed, Tadd Dameron, Tanjah (album), Thad Jones, The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2, The Birth of a Band!, The Body & the Soul, The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones, The Herbie Mann String Album, The Individualism of Gil Evans, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (album), The Jazz Modes, The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album), The Many Facets of David Newman, The Most Happy Fella (album), The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet, The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi, The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two, The Quintessence, The Quota, Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, Today's Man (album), Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath album), Trumpet, Uhuru Afrika, United States, Warren Smith (jazz percussionist). Expand index (104 more) »

A Sure Thing

A Sure Thing is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with orchestra recorded in late 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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Africa/Brass

Africa/Brass is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Impulse! Records, catalogue A-6.

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Afro/American Sketches

Afro/American Sketches is a jazz album by Oliver Nelson recorded in late 1961 and released in 1962.

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Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Art Farmer

Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

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At Basin Street East (Billy Eckstine and Quincy Jones album)

At Basin Street East is a 1961 live album by Billy Eckstine, accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.

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Benny Bailey

Ernest Harold "Benny" Bailey (13 August 1925 – 14 April 2005) was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter.

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Benny Golson's New York Scene

Benny Golson's New York Scene is the debut album by saxophonist Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

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Beverly Kenney

Beverly Kenney (January 29, 1932, Harrison, New Jersey – April 13, 1960, New York City) was an American jazz singer.

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Big Band Bossa Nova

Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 bossa nova album by American impresario, jazz composer, trumpeter, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones and his band.

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Big Brass

Big Brass is an album by trumpeter Benny Bailey featuring performances recorded in late 1960 and originally released on the Candid label.

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Billy Byers

William Mitchell Byers (May 1, 1927 - May 1, 1996) was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.

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Billy Eckstine

William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era.

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Billy Taylor

William Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator.

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Blue Mitchell

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk trumpeter, and composer, who recorded many albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and Mainstream Records.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album)

Blues in Orbit is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1969 and 1971 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Jimmy Cleveland, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper, and Joe Beck.

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Brass Shout

Brass Shout is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer, featuring a brass ensemble arranged and conducted by Benny Golson.

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Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band!

Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! is a 1962 studio album by Oscar Peterson.

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Cal Massey

Calvin "Cal" Massey (January11, 1928October25, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Change of Pace

Change of Pace is an album by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label.

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Charles McPherson (musician)

Charles McPherson (born July 24, 1939) is an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Joplin, Missouri, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, who worked intermittently with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1974, and as a performer leading his own groups.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Chico O'Farrill

Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (October 28, 1921 – June 27, 2001) was a Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor, best known for his work in the Latin idiom, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz or "Cubop", although he also composed traditional jazz pieces and even symphonic works.

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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, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Clifford Jordan

Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player.

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Color Changes

Color Changes is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in late 1960 and originally released on the Candid label.

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Consummation (album)

Consummation is an album by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

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Cornish College of the Arts

Cornish College of the Arts is a college in the Denny Triangle, Capitol Hill and Seattle CenterBerson, Misha.

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Cuban Fire!

Cuban Fire! is an album by Stan Kenton and his orchestra released in 1956 by Capitol Records.

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Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller (born December 15, 1934) is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.

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Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns

Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns is an album by trombonist Curtis Fuller with pianist Hampton Hawes recorded in 1957 and originally released as one half of a 16rpm record Baritones and French Horns but later re-released on the Status label, a subsidiary of Prestige Records in 1964.

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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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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Ernie Fields

Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Fields (August 28, 1904 – May 11, 1997)Laprarie, Michael,, (accessed May 14, 2010).

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For Someone I Love

For Someone I Love is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring big band performances arranged by Melba Liston recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

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Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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French Horns for My Lady

French Horns for My Lady is an album by horn player Julius Watkins which was originally released on the Philips label in 1962.

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Gene Quill

Daniel Eugene Quill (December 15, 1927 – December 8, 1988) was an American alto saxophonist known for his bebop jazz records with Phil Woods.

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George Coleman

George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

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George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.

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Gigi Gryce

Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 14, 1983) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Gil Mellé

Gilbert John "Gil" Mellé (31 December 1931 – 28 October 2004) was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.

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Gil's Guests

Gil's Guests is an album by American saxophonist Gil Mellé recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.

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Gillespiana

Gillespiana is an album by trumpter Dizzy Gillespie featuring compositions by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1960 and released on the Verve label.

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Golden Boy (Art Blakey album)

Golden Boy (full title Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Play Selections From the New Musical Golden Boy) is a 1964 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, performing compositions by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse written for the Broadway musical Golden Boy.

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Guitar Forms

Guitar Forms is a 1965 album by Kenny Burrell, featuring arrangements by Gil Evans.

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Hampton Hawes

Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist.

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Harold Mabern

Harold Mabern, Jr. (born March 20, 1936) is an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields.

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Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music.

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Highlife (album)

Highlife (full title Music from the New African Nations featuring the Highlife) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Colpix label.

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I Dig Dancers

I Dig Dancers is an album led by composer, conductor and arranger Quincy Jones released on the Mercury label featuring performances recorded in Paris and New York.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Composer's Orchestra

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965 to further orchestral avant-garde jazz.

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Jazz Goes to the Movies

Jazz Goes to the Movies is an album by American jazz arranger and conductor Manny Albam recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.

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Jazz Lab

Jazz Lab is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd and saxophonist Gigi Gryce featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Columbia label.

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Jimmy Heath

James Edward Heath (born October 25, 1926), nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Johnny Richards

Johnny Richards (November 2, 1911 – October 7, 1968) was a jazz arranger and composer.

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Julius Watkins Sextet

Julius Watkins Sextet is a CD by horn player Julius Watkins featuring tracks recorded in 1954 and 1955 which were originally released as two 10 inch LPs (BLP 5053, 5064) on the Blue Note label.

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Karma (Pharoah Sanders album)

Karma is a 1969 jazz recording by the American tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label.

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Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Kwamina (album)

Kwamina is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring jazz interpretations of compositions from the Broadway musical Kwamina written by Richard Adler which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Mercury label.

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Larry Ridley

Larry Ridley (born September 3, 1937) is an American jazz bassist and music educator.

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Left & Right (album)

Left & Right is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk.

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Les Jazz Modes

Les Jazz Modes is an album by Les Jazz Modes Modes led by horn player Julius Watkins and saxophonist Charlie Rouse recorded in 1956 and released on the Dawn label.

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Les Spann

Leslie Spann Jr. (May 23, 1932 – January 24, 1989) was an American jazz guitarist and flautist.

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Let My Children Hear Music

Let My Children Hear Music is an album released by Columbia Records in 1972 of music by composer Charles Mingus, produced by Teo Macero.

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Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City.

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Manny Albam

Manny Albam (June 24, 1922 in Samana, Dominican Republic – October 2, 2001 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, United States) was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually became a composer, arranger, producer, and educator.

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.

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Mat Mathews

Mat Mathews, born Mathieu Hubert Wijnandts Schwarts (June 18, 1924 – February 12, 2009), was a Dutch jazz accordionist.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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Meet Milt Jackson

Meet Milt Jackson is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded between 1949 and 1956 and released on the Savoy label.

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Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990) was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall

Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall is a live album by American jazz musician Miles Davis.

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Milt Jackson

Milton "Bags" Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms.

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Modern Jazz Perspective

Modern Jazz Perspective is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd and saxophonist Gigi Gryce, with featured vocalist Jackie Paris, recorded in 1957 for the Columbia label.

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Monk (1954 album)

Monk (also re-released as Wee See and The Golden Monk) is an album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk recorded for the Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets, one featuring Julius Watkins, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones and one featuring Ray Copeland, Frank Foster, Curly Russell, and Art Blakey.

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Mood in Scarlet

Mood in Scarlet is an album by Les Modes led by horn player Julius Watkins and saxophonist Charlie Rouse recorded in 1956 and released on the Dawn label.

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Music Written for Monterey 1965

Music Written for Monterey 1965 (subtitled Not Heard... Played in its Entirety, at UCLA) is a live album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus recorded at Royce Hall in Los Angeles and first released on Mingus' own Jazz Workshop label in 1966.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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New Bottle Old Wine

New Bottle Old Wine is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1958 by Evans with an orchestra.

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New Life (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra album)

New Life (Dedicated to Max Gordon) is a 1976 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the A&M/Horizon Records label.

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New Sounds by Pete Rugolo

New Sounds by Pete Rugolo is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Pete Rugolo, featuring unreleased performances recorded in 1954 and 1955 for Columbia Records and released on the budget Harmony label in 1957.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newport '61

Newport '61 is a live album by Quincy Jones, recorded on July 3, 1961 at the Newport Jazz Festival.

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Nica's Tempo

Nica's Tempo is an album by Gigi Gryce recorded in 1955.

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Nine Flags

Nine Flags is an album by Cuban composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Oscar Pettiford

Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer.

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Oscar Pettiford (album)

Oscar Pettiford (also released as Oscar Pettiford Modern Quintet) is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in 1954 and first issued on the Bethlehem label as a 10-inch LP.

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Pete Rugolo

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Phil Woods

Philip Wells "Phil" Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.

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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album)

Quiet Nights is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, and his fourth album collaboration with Gil Evans, released in 1964 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2106 and CS 8906 in stereo.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits

Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits is an album by American conductor, arranger and producer Quincy Jones of songs that had recently been hits for other jazz artists which was released on the Mercury label in 1963.

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Quincy Plays for Pussycats

Quincy Plays for Pussycats is an album by Quincy Jones featuring sessions recorded between 1959 and 1965 which was released on the Mercury label.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry. "." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved on 2009-02-01. "The year of his birth has been widely given as 1936, but his birth certificate gives 1935 and confirms Ronald, not Roland." – December 5, 1977) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments.

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Randy Weston

Randy Weston (born April 6, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz pianist and composer of Jamaican parentage.

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Rights of Swing

Rights of Swing is the sole album led by saxophonist Phil Woods featuring performances recorded in early 1961 and originally released on the Candid label.

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Roll 'Em Bags

Roll 'Em Bags is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded in 1949 and 1956 and released on the Savoy label.

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Rugolomania

Rugolomania is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Pete Rugolo, featuring performances recorded in 1954 and 1955 and released on the Columbia label.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Short Hills, New Jersey

Short Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Millburn Township, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Song of the New World

Song of the New World is a 1973 album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, his fourth to be released on the Milestone label.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Suite for Pops

Suite for Pops is a 1975 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the A&M Horizon label.

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Swamp Seed

Swamp Seed is the fifth album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1963 originally released on the Riverside 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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Tanjah (album)

Tanjah is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in May 1973 in New York City and originally released on the Polydor label.

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Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists.".

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The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2

The Africa/Brass Sessions, Vol.

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The Birth of a Band!

The Birth of a Band! is an album led by composer, conductor and arranger Quincy Jones released on the Mercury label featuring performances with Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Harry Edison, and Phil Woods.

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The Body & the Soul

The Body & the Soul is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in 1963 as his second and last release on the Impulse! label.

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The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones

The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones is an album led by composer, conductor and arranger Quincy Jones released on the Mercury label.

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The Herbie Mann String Album

The Herbie Mann String Album is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded for the Atlantic label and released in 1967.

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The Individualism of Gil Evans

The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964.

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The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (album)

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra is a 1968 album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra recorded over a period of six months with Michael Mantler as composer, leader and producer.

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The Jazz Modes

The Jazz Modes is an album by horn player Julius Watkins and saxophonist Charlie Rouse recorded in 1957 and 1958 and released on the Atlantic label.

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The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album)

The Magic Touch is a 1962 album by jazz pianist and arranger Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra, released on Riverside Records.

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The Many Facets of David Newman

The Many Facets of David Newman is an album by saxophonist David Newman featuring performances recorded in 1968 for the Atlantic label.

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The Most Happy Fella (album)

The Most Happy Fella is an album by The Jazz Modes led by horn player Julius Watkins and saxophonist Charlie Rouse recorded in 1957 and released on the Atlantic label.

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The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet

The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in late 1953 and first issued on the Debut label as a 10-inch LP.

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The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford which was recorded in 1956 and first issued on the ABC-Paramount label.

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The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two

The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two (also referred to as O.P.'s Jazz Men) is an album by bassist/cellist and composer Oscar Pettiford that was recorded in 1957 and first issued on the ABC-Paramount label.

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The Quintessence

The Quintessence is an album recorded by Quincy Jones and his orchestra.

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The Quota

The Quota is the third album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1961 originally released on the Riverside label.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is an album by jazz Pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1954 on the Prestige label, catalogue 7075.

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Today's Man (album)

Today's Man is an album by saxophonist Charles McPherson which was recorded in 1973 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath album)

Triple Threat is the fourth album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1962 originally released on the Riverside label.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Uhuru Afrika

Uhuru Afrika (subtitled/translated as Freedom Africa) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)

Warren Smith (born May 14, 1934) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, known as a contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East).

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References

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

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