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Benny Powell (March 1, 1930 – June 26, 2010) was an American jazz trombonist. He played both standard (tenor) trombone and bass trombone.[1] [2]
Benny Powell
Benny Powell in 1962
Birth name Benjamin Gordon Powell Jr. Born 1 March 1930New Orleans , Louisiana Died 26 June 2010Manhattan Genres jazz Instrument(s ) Trombone Years active 1951-1994
Musical artist
Biography
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Born Benjamin Gordon Powell Jr in New Orleans, Louisiana, he first played professionally at the age of 14, and at 18 began playing with Lionel Hampton . In 1951 he left Hampton's band and began playing with Count Basie , in whose orchestra he would remain until 1963. Powell takes the trombone solo in the bridge of Basie's 1955 recording of "April in Paris ".[3]
After leaving Basie, he freelanced in New York City. From 1966 to 1970 he was a member of the Thad Jones -Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, playing on Monday nights at the Village Vanguard . Among other engagements, he played in the house band of the Merv Griffin Show Los Angeles, California , in 1970 Powell also relocated there. He did extensive work as a session musician , including with Abdullah Ibrahim , John Carter , and Randy Weston . Later in his career Powell worked as an educator, including as part of the Jazzmobile project. Having moved back to New York in the 1980s, he began teaching at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 1994.
He died in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 80, following back surgery.
Personal
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Powell married Evelyn Jackson at St Bernard Catholic Church in New York in 1958.[4]
Discography
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As leader
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As sideman
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With Pepper Adams
With Gene Ammons
With Count Basie
The Count! Clef , 1952 [1955])
Basie Jazz
Dance Session
Dance Session Album #2
Basie
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings Joe Williams
April in Paris Verve , 1956)
The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards
Metronome All-Stars 1956 Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams
Hall of Fame
Basie in London
One O'Clock Jump
Count Basie at Newport
The Atomic Mr. Basie Roulette , 1957) aka Basie and E=MC2
Basie Plays Hefti
Sing Along with Basie Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Basie One More Time
Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
Everyday I Have the Blues
Dance Along with Basie
String Along with Basie
Not Now, I'll Tell You When
The Count Basie Story
Kansas City Suite
The Legend
Back with Basie
Basie in Sweden
On My Way & Shoutin' Again!
This Time by Basie! Reprise , 1963)
More Hits of the 50's and 60's
With Donald Byrd
With Benny Carter
With John Carter
Castles of Ghana Gramavision , 1986)
Dance of the Love Ghosts (Gramavision, 1987)
Fields (Gramavision, 1988)
Shadows on a Wall [Gramavision, 1989)
With Buck Clayton
With Hank Crawford
With Dameronia
With Frank Foster
With Al Grey
With Eddie Harris
With Jimmy Heath
With Johnny Hodges
With J. J. Johnson
With Clifford Jordan
With Bobby Bland and B.B. King
with Melba Liston
With Herbie Mann
With Les McCann
With David Newman
With Joe Newman
With Chico O'Farrill
With Moacir Santos
With Frank Wess
With Randy Weston
With Gerald Wilson
References
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^ "Discography" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2012-12-31 .
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