Ernie Farrow

Ernie Farrow (* 13. November 1928 in Huntington , West Virginia ; † 14. July 1969 in Detroit ) was an American jazz - bassist , also a pianist and drummer.

Ernie Farrow grew up in Detroit and was the half-brother of Alice Coltrane , who introduced her to jazz. He began his musical career as a pianist, then switched to the bass as the main instrument. In 1954 he worked with Terry Gibbs , then with Stan Getz , Yusef Lateef ( The Centaur and the Phoenix, Eastern Sounds , 1961), Barry Harris ( Stay Right With It , 1961) and performed with his own trio in 1958 at the Detroit jazz club Blue Bird Inn on; Joe Henderson , Sonny Red , Hugh Lawson and Oliver Jackson played in his International Jazz Quartet . In 1960 he was a member of the Red Garland trio in New York. In 1964 he returned to Detroit and founded a quintet and the ten-piece big band Big Sound ; he also worked as a sideman for Jack Brokensha and Harold McKinney . In 1969 he appeared again at the Blue Bird Inn with his own quintet. He drowned in a swimming pool accident in July 1969.

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• All music
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
• Franya J. Berkman: Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane