Gene Quill

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Gene Quill

Gene Quill (actually Daniel Eugene Quill , * 15. December 1927 in Atlantic City , † 8. December 1988 ) was an American jazz - saxophonist and clarinetist . He played with Phil Woods, among others .

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Gene Quill became a professional musician at the age of thirteen and worked first with Jerry Wald , Art Mooney , Buddy DeFranco , and later with Claude Thornhill , Gene Krupa , Dan Terry and Quincy Jones ( This Is How I Feel About Jazz ). In 1957 he played on an album by John Coltrane and led a formation with Phil Woods called Phil and Quill , in which they performed with various accompanying musicians in New York nightclubs. In 1957 he worked on the album A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper . After that he worked atJohnny Richards and Nat Pierce . In the early 1960s he played in the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band and toured Europe with his band, after which he played as a freelance musician in New York. From 1966 Quill also had his own quartet. He has also made records with Mundell Lowe , Jimmy Knepper , Quincy Jones, Manny Albam , Bill Potts , Michel Legrand and Billie Holiday . Finally he had to break off his career due to illness.

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  1. according to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
  2. The Epic album was a three-track anthology by Quill, plus recordings by Jimmy Cleveland, Seldon Powell and Conte Candoli .