PERSPICUOUS harpist, pianist, organist, bandleader and versatile composer whose output includes the ethereal masterpiece, Ptah, the El Daoud (personnel: Coltrane, piano, harp; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Ben Riley, drums [recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills,(Born 27 August 1937, Detroit, United States)
Pianist, organist, composer, arranger, his salutary majesty of the big band and swing whose orchestra for 50 years, beginning in 1935, becomes a conservatoire for the distinguished graduating array of instrumentalists and singers of the age including, particularly, tenor saxophonist Lester Young, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry Edison and singers Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams and Jimmy Rushing(Born 21 August 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey, US)
(Count Basie and Orchestra, “One O’clock jump” [Reveille with Beverley film, 1943])
