June Booth
Juni Booth (also Jooney , Jiunie or Joonie Booth , born February 12, 1948 in Buffalo (New York) as Arthur Edward Booth ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass piano and cello ).
Booth had piano lessons at the age of eight and attended the municipal music school in Buffalo in 1962/63. His musical career began in the bands of Chuck Mangione in 1964/65 and Art Blakey in 1966/67. He also worked on the ESP disk album Music from the Spheres by the Sonny Simmons / Barbara Donald Quintet; afterwards he worked as a freelance musician a. a. with Donald Byrd , Abdullah Ibrahim , Kenny Dorham , Tal Farlow , Shelly Manne , Thelonious Monk and Albert Ayler . In the 1970s he played in the groups of Gary Bartz ( Urban Bush Music ), Hamiet Bluiett , Freddie Hubbard , McCoy Tyner , Elvin Jones , Chico Freeman and Charles Tolliver . In 1984 he played in the trio of Steve Grossman ; In the late 1980s he was a member of Sun Ra Arkestra ( Second Star to the Right ), and in 1999 he worked on Charles Gayle's album Ancient of Days . With İlhan Erşahin and Jochen Rückert he recorded the album Peace Now (2008) in the trio I Led Three Lives .
literature
- 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 .
- Barry Kernfeld The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . Oxford University Press 2003; ISBN 1-56159-284-6
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| SURNAME | Booth, June |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Booth, Jooney; Booth, Jiunie; Booth, Joonie; Booth, Arthur Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo (New York) |