Larry Ridley

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"Larry" Ridley (born September 3, 1937 in Indianapolis as Laurence Howard Ridley ) is an American jazz bassist and music teacher.

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Larry Ridley was a professional musician during his high school years, then studied at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and at New York University . He completed his studies with a "Bachelor of Science" in music education, finally with a doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and then worked as a (now emeritus) professor of music at Rutgers University . During his apprenticeship at Rutgers, Ridley created a graduate program in jazz performance. He continues to teach jazz bass playing at the Manhattan School of Music .

Ridley only recorded a few sessions under his own name; He became known primarily as a sideman in the 1960s on tours and recordings of musicians such as Wes Montgomery , Hank Mobley , Freddie Hubbard , Slide Hampton , Thelonious Monk , Horace Silver , Dizzy Gillespie , Benny Goodman , Chet Baker , Dinah Washington , Coleman Hawkins , Duke Ellington , Sonny Rollins , Lee Morgan , Gerald Wilson , Clark Terry , Randy Weston and George Wein ’s Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars . In the 1970s he worked with Al Cohn , in the 1980s he was involved in the last recordings of Chet Baker and the band Dameronia (1989).

Ridley was chairman of the “Jazz Panel” of the National Endowment for the Arts Program (NEA) and was national coordinator of the “Jazz Artists in Schools” program for the organization from 1978 to 1982. He works as “Jazz Artist in Residence ” in the Harlem facility within the New York Public Library , the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He set up a series whose compositions are performed by himself and his Jazz Legacy Ensemble .

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SURNAME Ridley, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridley, Laurence Howard Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz bassist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis