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Lew Soloff (born February 20, 1944 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 trumpeter, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
 and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
 from 1968 to 1973. Prior to this, he worked with Machito
Machito

Machito , born Francisco Ra?l Guti?rrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba, was an influential Latin jazz musician.Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz....
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
, Tony Scott
Tony Scott

Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an England film director. His films include Top Gun , Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide , Enemy of the State and Spy Game....
, and Tito Puente
Tito Puente

Tito Puente, Sr., , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music"....
. Since his stint with Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
, he has worked with Clark Terry
Clark Terry

Clark Terry , is an American swing music and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee....
, Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaría

Ram?n "Mongo" Santamar?a was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussion instrument. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others....
, Thad Jones
Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an United States jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader....
-Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff....
 Orchestra, the Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
 big band, Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an United States jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores....
, Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis , is an United States jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education....
, Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt

Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the most well-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 records in his lifetime....
, Spyro Gyra
Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an United States jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene....
, George Russell
George Russell

George Allen Russell is an United States jazz pianist, composer and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on Jazz rather than European music, in his 1953 book, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization....
, Stanley Turrentine
Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophone....
, Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
, Carla Bley
Carla Bley

Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
, Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson (musician)

Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument....
, Franco Ambrosetti
Franco Ambrosetti

Franco Ambrosetti is a Switzerland jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn and composer born in Lugano, Switzerland, perhaps most noteworthy for his many albums released on the jazz recording label Enja Records....
, Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
, Hiram Bullock
Hiram Bullock

Hiram Law Bullock was an United States jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S....
, Lou Marini
Lou Marini

Lou Marini, Jr. is an United States saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz, rock music, blues and soul music traditions....
, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Magic City Jazz Orchestra
Magic City Jazz Orchestra

The Magic City Jazz Orchestra is an United States jazz ensemble which was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the SuperJazz Big Band by Birmingham, Alabama jazz pianist and vocalist Ray Reach....
 (directed by pianist Ray Reach
Ray Reach

Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist and educator residing in Birmingham, Alabama, now serving as Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and President and CEO of Magic City Music Productions....
) and the Bohuslän Big Band
Bohuslän Big Band

The Bohusl?n Big Band is a modern jazz ensemble from Sweden which started as a military orchestra in the 19th century. They play original music as well as compositions by Lars Jansson, Maria Schneider , Frank Zappa and others....
.






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Lew Soloff (born February 20, 1944 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 trumpeter, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is a music College or university school of music located in Rochester, New York, United States. The Eastman School is the professional school of music associated with the University of Rochester....
 and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
 from 1968 to 1973. Prior to this, he worked with Machito
Machito

Machito , born Francisco Ra?l Guti?rrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba, was an influential Latin jazz musician.Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz....
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
, Tony Scott
Tony Scott

Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an England film director. His films include Top Gun , Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide , Enemy of the State and Spy Game....
, and Tito Puente
Tito Puente

Tito Puente, Sr., , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music"....
. Since his stint with Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
, he has worked with Clark Terry
Clark Terry

Clark Terry , is an American swing music and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee....
, Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaría

Ram?n "Mongo" Santamar?a was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussion instrument. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others....
, Thad Jones
Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an United States jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader....
-Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff....
 Orchestra, the Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
 big band, Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an United States jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores....
, Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis , is an United States jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education....
, Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt

Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the most well-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 records in his lifetime....
, Spyro Gyra
Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an United States jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene....
, George Russell
George Russell

George Allen Russell is an United States jazz pianist, composer and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on Jazz rather than European music, in his 1953 book, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization....
, Stanley Turrentine
Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophone....
, Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
, Carla Bley
Carla Bley

Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
, Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson (musician)

Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument....
, Franco Ambrosetti
Franco Ambrosetti

Franco Ambrosetti is a Switzerland jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn and composer born in Lugano, Switzerland, perhaps most noteworthy for his many albums released on the jazz recording label Enja Records....
, Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
, Hiram Bullock
Hiram Bullock

Hiram Law Bullock was an United States jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S....
, Lou Marini
Lou Marini

Lou Marini, Jr. is an United States saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz, rock music, blues and soul music traditions....
, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Magic City Jazz Orchestra
Magic City Jazz Orchestra

The Magic City Jazz Orchestra is an United States jazz ensemble which was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the SuperJazz Big Band by Birmingham, Alabama jazz pianist and vocalist Ray Reach....
 (directed by pianist Ray Reach
Ray Reach

Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist and educator residing in Birmingham, Alabama, now serving as Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and President and CEO of Magic City Music Productions....
) and the Bohuslän Big Band
Bohuslän Big Band

The Bohusl?n Big Band is a modern jazz ensemble from Sweden which started as a military orchestra in the 19th century. They play original music as well as compositions by Lars Jansson, Maria Schneider , Frank Zappa and others....
. He has also been a longtime member of the Manhattan Jazz Quintet
Manhattan Jazz Quintet

The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz musical ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on Drum kit, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on double bass....
. He has a cousin named Steve Soloff, his second cousin Evan Soloff, and other second cousin Brandon Soloff, they also play inturments.

He currently resides in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 with his wife Emily Mitchell Soloff, who has also been in numerous albums playing the harp.

Discography


As leader

  • Air on a G String, 2003 - Lew Soloff (trumpet, flugelhorn), Larry Willis
    Larry Willis

    Lawrence Elliott Willis is an United States jazz pianist and composer. He has performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion rock music rock Bop Bebop and Avant-Garde...
     (piano), Francois Moutin (bass), Victor Lewis (drums)
  • Rainbow Mountain, 2000 - Lew Soloff (trumpet), Lou Marini
    Lou Marini

    Lou Marini, Jr. is an United States saxophonist, arranger and composer. He is noted for his work in the jazz, rock music, blues and soul music traditions....
     (saxophones, flute), Joe Beck
    Joe Beck

    Joe Beck was an United States guitarist who had been notable in jazz for more than 30 years.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
     (guitar), Mark Egan
    Mark Egan

    See also Mark Egan .Mark Egan is an United States jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, perhaps best-known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980....
     (bass), Danny Gottlieb
    Danny Gottlieb

    Danny Gottlieb is a freelance drummer who has performed as part of the Pat Metheny Group and Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is also a member of the University of North Florida jazz faculty, where he teaches as a fulltime Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies Mini instructional clinics are available through the UNF website ...
     (drums). Also with special guests: Delmar Brown (synthesizers, vocal), Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Bullock

    Hiram Law Bullock was an United States jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S....
     (guitar), Will Lee
    Will Lee

    Will Lee was an American actor who was known to many for playing the store proprietor Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in 1969 until his death....
     (bass), Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums), Miles Evans (trumpet), Paul Shaffer
    Paul Shaffer

    Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, Order of Canada is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman....
     (Hammond B-3 organ)
  • With a Song In My Heart, 1999 Rob Mounsey
    Rob Mounsey

    Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns....
     (arranger), Lew Soloff (trumpet), Victor Lewis (drums), Emily Mitchell Soloff (harp), Mulgrew Miller
    Mulgrew Miller

    Mulgrew Miller is an United States jazz pianist born in 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi who performs in a number of jazz idioms....
     (piano), George Mraz
    George Mraz

    George Mraz is a jazz double bass and alto saxophone. He attended the Berklee College of Music in 1970. He can be heard on Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko and Bossas & Ballads - The Lost Sessions....
     (bass)
  • But Beautiful, 1993 - Lew Soloff (trumpet), Kenny Kirkland
    Kenny Kirkland

    Kenneth David ?Kenny? Kirkland was an American pianist/keyboardist. Considered by many to be one of the most important and influential pianists of his generation, he is most often associated with Sting , Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, and Kenny Garrett....
     (piano), Richard Davis
    Richard Davis

    Richard Davis is an United States double bass player who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1977. Originally from Chicago, he first became known in that city before establishing himself in New York City for twenty-three years....
     (bass), Elvin Jones
    Elvin Jones

    Elvin Ray Jones was one of the most influential Jazz drumming of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
     (drums)
  • Little Wing, 1991 - Lew Soloff (trumpet), Ray Anderson
    Ray Anderson (musician)

    Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument....
     (trombone), Gil Goldstein
    Gil Goldstein

    Gil Goldstein is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.He began studying accordion at age 5, but later moved on to cello and piano....
     (piano, synthesizers, accordion), Pete Levin (organ, synthesizers, vocoder), Mark Egan
    Mark Egan

    See also Mark Egan .Mark Egan is an United States jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, perhaps best-known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980....
     (bass), Kenwood Dennard (drums), Manolo Badrena
    Manolo Badrena

    Manolo Badrena is a first-call percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976-1977. He has made contributions to over 100 recordings that span jazz, world music, pop music, and Latin music....
     (percussion). Produced by Steve Swallow
    Steve Swallow

    Steve Swallow is a jazz bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.As a child, Swallow studied piano and trumpet before turning to the double bass at age 14....
     and Lew Soloff.
  • My Romance, 1989 - Lew Soloff (trumpet), Mark Egan
    Mark Egan

    See also Mark Egan .Mark Egan is an United States jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, perhaps best-known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980....
     (bass), Janis Siegel (vocal), Danny Gottlieb
    Danny Gottlieb

    Danny Gottlieb is a freelance drummer who has performed as part of the Pat Metheny Group and Mahavishnu Orchestra. He is also a member of the University of North Florida jazz faculty, where he teaches as a fulltime Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies Mini instructional clinics are available through the UNF website ...
     (drums), Pete Levin (synthesizers), Airto Moreira
    Airto Moreira

    Airto Moreira is a Brazilian Jazz drummer, percussionist and musician. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer....
     (percussion), Gil Goldstein
    Gil Goldstein

    Gil Goldstein is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.He began studying accordion at age 5, but later moved on to cello and piano....
     (piano, synthesizers), Emily Michell Soloff (harp)
  • Yesterdays, 1986 - Lew Soloff (trumpet), Mike Stern
    Mike Stern

    Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. A major player on the scene since his breakthrough days with Miles Davis' comeback band, circa 1981, Stern's sideman credits include work with such jazz icons as saxophonists Stan Getz and Joe Henderson, bassist Jaco Pastorius, guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Martino, trumpeters Tom Harrell, Arturo Sand...
     (guitar), Charnett Moffett
    Charnett Moffett

    Charnett Moffett is an United States jazz musician who plays piccolo bass, double bass and bass guitar.Moffett's given name was created as a combination of that of his father and that of Ornette Coleman ....
     (bass), Elvin Jones
    Elvin Jones

    Elvin Ray Jones was one of the most influential Jazz drumming of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
     (drums)
  • Hanalei Bay, 1983 Lew Soloff (trumpet, flugelhorn), Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     (electric piano), Pete Levin (synthesizer), Hiram Bullock
    Hiram Bullock

    Hiram Law Bullock was an United States jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S....
     (guitar), Adam Nussbaum
    Adam Nussbaum

    Adam Nussbaum grew up in Norwalk , Connecticut and started to play drums at age 12 after studying piano for 5 years, also playing bass and saxophone as a teenager....
     (drums), Kenwood Dennard (drums), Manolo Badrena
    Manolo Badrena

    Manolo Badrena is a first-call percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976-1977. He has made contributions to over 100 recordings that span jazz, world music, pop music, and Latin music....
     (percussion)


As sideman

  • Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, A Love Supreme, 2005
  • Carla Bley
    Carla Bley

    Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
    , Looking For America, 2003
  • Cold Feet
    Cold Feet

    Cold Feet is a United Kingdom comedy drama television series produced by Granada Television for ITV. It was created by Mike Bullen, who also wrote most of the episodes, and produced by Christine Langan, Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson....
    , Cold Feet plays Jazz Feet, 2003
  • Bob Belden
    Bob Belden

    James Robert Belden is an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader and producer. He is noted for his Grammy Award winning jazz orchestral recording titled The Black Dahlia....
    , Black Dahlia
    Black Dahlia

    Elizabeth Short was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California....
    , 2001
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
     Orchestra, Live At Umbria Jazz Vol. 1 & 2, 2001
  • Manhattan Jazz Quintet
    Manhattan Jazz Quintet

    The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz musical ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on Drum kit, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on double bass....
    , I Got Rhythm, 2001
  • Teo Macero
    Teo Macero

    Teo Macero , born Attilio Joseph Macero, was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years, and most notably produced the Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue, which at #12, is the highest-ranked jazz album on Rolling Stone Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of A...
    , Impressions of Miles Davis, 2001
  • Ray Anderson
    Ray Anderson (musician)

    Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument....
    , Don't Mow Your Lawn, 1999
  • Trumpet Legacy — Various Artists featuring Lew Soloff, Nicholas Payton
    Nicholas Payton

    Nicholas Payton is a Neo-bop jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.The son of double bass and sousaphone Walter Payton , he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father....
    , Tom Harrell
    Tom Harrell

    Tom Harrell is a renowned United States post-bop jazz trumpeter and composer....
     and Eddie Henderson (Musician)
    Eddie Henderson (musician)

    Eddie Henderson is a jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player....
    , 1998
  • Carla Bley
    Carla Bley

    Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
    , Big Band Goes To Church, 1996
  • Giovanni Hidalgo
    Giovanni Hidalgo

    Giovanni Hidalgo "Ma?enguito" is an educator and Percussion instrument associated with Latin jazz....
    , Time Shifter, 1996
  • Rob Mounsey
    Rob Mounsey

    Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns....
    's Flying Monkey Orchestra, Mango Theory, 1995
  • Flying Monkey Orchestra, Back In The Pool, 1995
  • Various Artists, Jazz At Lincoln Center — They Came to Swing, 1994
  • Ray Anderson's Pocket Brass, Where Home Is, 1994
  • Giovanni Hidalgo
    Giovanni Hidalgo

    Giovanni Hidalgo "Ma?enguito" is an educator and Percussion instrument associated with Latin jazz....
    , Worldwide, 1993
  • Daniel Schnyder, Mythology, 1992
  • Manhattan Jazz Quintet
    Manhattan Jazz Quintet

    The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz musical ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on Drum kit, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on double bass....
    , Manteca, 1992
  • Charlie Musselwhite
    Charlie Musselwhite

    Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
    , Signature, 1991
  • Teresa Brewer
    Teresa Brewer

    Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
    , Memories of Louis, 1991
  • Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull

    Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
    , Blazing Away 1990
  • Hilton Ruiz
    Hilton Ruiz

    Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player.Ruiz began playing piano at the age of eight, and gigged with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Newman when he was young....
    , Strut, 1988
  • Hilton Ruiz
    Hilton Ruiz

    Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player.Ruiz began playing piano at the age of eight, and gigged with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Newman when he was young....
    , Something Grand, 1986
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , L.A. Is My Lady
    L.A. Is My Lady

    L.A. Is My Lady is a 1984 album by Frank Sinatra, featuring arrangements by Quincy Jones. It was the last solo album that Sinatra recorded....
    , 1984
  • Michael Franks
    Michael Franks

    Michael Franks is a smooth jazz singer and songwriter from the United States. He has recorded with a Who's Who of artists, such as Patti Austin, Brenda Russell, Art Garfunkel, and David Sanborn....
    , Tiger In The Rain, 1979
  • Various Artists, The Atlantic Family Live in Montreaux, 1977
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

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    , Priestess, 1977
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans

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    , Orchestra Plays The Music of Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

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    , 1974
  • Barry Miles
    Barry Miles

    Barry Miles is a United Kingdom author. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the International Times....
    , Barry Miles, 1970
  • Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
    , Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
    Blood, Sweat & Tears 3

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    , 1970 Grammy Award for Album of the Year
    Grammy Award for Album of the Year

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  • Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
     Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears (album)

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    , 1969


See also

  • List of trumpeters
    List of trumpeters

    This article lists notable musicians who have played the trumpet, cornet or flugelhorn....
  • 20th century brass instrumentalists
    20th century brass instrumentalists

    20th century brass instrumentalists include: * Trumpet ** William Adam ** Nat Adderley** Herb Alpert** Maurice Andr?** Louis Armstrong...
  • List of jazz trumpeters
    List of jazz trumpeters

    This is an alphabetical list of jazz trumpeters for whom Wikipedia has articles....


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