Bill Ramsay

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Bill Ramsay , also Rams Ramsay , actually William George Ramsay (born January 12, 1929 in Centralia (Washington) ) is an American jazz musician (alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), arranger and big band leader who is active in the Seattle music scene .

Life

Ramsay played alto saxophone with Buddy Morrow in the early 1960s ; after that he worked a. a. with Maynard Ferguson , Ray McKinley , Benny Goodman and (shortly before Basie's death in 1984) in the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra . Ramsay has toured with Les Brown , Frank Wess / Sweets Edison , Grover Mitchell , Dennis Mackrel and Frank Capp orchestras throughout his career .

In the 1980s, Ramsay founded his own big band , which performed on Sundays at Seattle's Parnall's Jazz Club . In 1997 he was honored with induction into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame of the Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle . Since 1995 he has also been a member of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra . With Milton Edwin Kleeb (* 1919) he is co-leader of a ten-piece band, the Ramsay-Kleeb Big Band , which plays the repertoire of Miles Davis , Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan . In the field of jazz he was involved in 41 recording sessions between 1999 and 2010, apart from the aforementioned with Mel Tormé , Bud Shank ( The Lost Cathedral , 1991), Jay Thomas , Gene Harris , Edmonia Jarrett , Pete Christlieb and Phil Kelly.

Discographic notes

  • Pete Christlieb & the Bill Ramsay / Milt Kleeb Band: Red Kellys Heroes (CAR, 1997)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 14, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Ramsay, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramsay, rams; Ramsay, William George (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), arranger and big band leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Centralia (Washington)