Kim Richmond

Kim Richmond (* 24. July 1940 in Champaign , Illinois ) is an American jazz - saxophonist , arranger and composer .

Live and act

Richmond played piano, clarinet, and saxophone in his youth; since 1956 he worked as a professional musician. He studied at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s , where he participated in Eric Dolphy's Big Band project in March 1963 , which appeared on Blue Note as The Illinois Concert . He then played in the Air Force Big Band, Airmen of Note , when he did his military service in Washington, DC from 1963 to 1967 . He then moved to California and played in the bands of Stan Kenton (1967), Clare Fischer (1968), Louie Bellson (1969–72), Lalo Schifrin (1979), Bob Florence (1979), Les Brown (1989), Bill Holman (1990) and Vinny Golia (1991). Since the 1960s, Richmond has also worked as an arranger, for Schifrin, Buddy Rich and Ernie Watts . Richmond took part in Eric Dolphy's concert with the University of Illinois Big Band in 1963 (appeared on the Blue Note album The Illinois Concert ). Since the late 1980s, Richmond recorded a number of albums under its own name; The big band album Passages was created in 1992 . With the Concert Jazz Orchestra he founded , he performed his own compositions in Southern California and otherwise works as a session musician, with Bob Florence and Joey Sellars , among others , as arranger and artistic director in the studios.

Discographic notes

• Looking in Looking Out (Nine Winds, 1988)
• Passages (Sea Breeze Records, 1992)
• Range (Nine Winds, 1994)
• Crossweave ( Origin , 2004)
• Live at Cafe Metropol (Origin, 2007)

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .