Jay Cameron
Jay Cameron (* 14. September 1928 in New York City ; † 21st March 2001 ) was an American jazz - saxophonist and baritone saxophonist of modern jazz .
Live and act
Jay Cameron learned the saxophone from 1940 and played in various bands from 1944, for example with Ike Carpenter from 1946 to 1947. From 1948 to 1955 he stayed in Europe, where he worked with Rex Stewart , Bill Coleman , Roy Haynes and Henri Renaud, among others and worked with his own formation, which included Bobby Jaspar , Barney Wilen and Jean-Louis Chautemps . Then he played in Boyd Bachmann's Big Band . From 1956 Cameron worked in the United States with Woody Herman (1956), Maynard Ferguson (1957-58), Slide Hampton (1960), Candido , Bill Barron , André Hodeir , Hal McKusick and with Les and Larry Elgart .
Selection discography
- Jay Cameron's International Sax Band: The Vogue Sessions (1955) with Jaspar, Wilen, Chautemps, Renaud, Benoît Quersin , André Reilles
- Roy Haynes Sextet: The 1954 Paris Sessions (Vogue, 1954) with Barney Wilen , Jimmy Gourley , Henri Renaud , Joe Benjamin
- Slide Hampton Octet: Two Sides of Slide (Fresh Sound), Jazz In Paris - Slide Hampton / Exodus (Emarcy) with George Coleman , Richard Williams
- Tony Ortega Octet: Jazz for Young Moderns (Bethlehem / Fresh Sound, 1958/59)
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazzlexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1993.
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
swell
- ↑ Jazz Link Enterprises: September Birthdays ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2012
- ↑ Boy Bachmann, band leader, born October 18, 1980 in Copenhagen (Denmark); † December 1, 1981 in Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cameron, Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz alto saxophonist and baritone saxophonist of modern jazz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2001 |