Ray Abrams
Ray Abrams actually, Raymond Abramson (* 23. January 1920 in New York , NY ; † 6. July 1992 in Brooklyn ) was an American jazz - tenor saxophonist whose style the Bebop is attributable.
Live and act
Ray Abrams is the brother of drummer Lee Abrams . In 1944 he was involved in sessions of the bebop pioneers at Clark Monroe's Uptown House . He can be heard on record with Kenny Clarke and his 52nd Street Boys (1946). He then played in 1946 in the first big band of Dizzy Gillespie , the same year when Don Redman , with whom he went on a European tour; from 1947 to 1949 he worked for Andy Kirk . At the end of the 1940s he had his own band, the Ray Abrams Orchestra , which he had built up mainly together with the trumpeter Hank Dougherty . Together with singer Herb Lance he had a hit with Close Your Eyes in the R&B charts . With this formation he performed in the Savoy Ballroom . The resulting Ray Abrams Big Band continued to exist after the death of Ray Abrams.
In 1949 Abrams played again with Gillespie, in the same year he switched to the band of Hot Lips Page . In 1951 he worked for Paul Gayten , in 1952 he recorded with Bill Harris .
literature
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
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| SURNAME | Abrams, Ray |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abramson, Raymond (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz tenor saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1992 |
| Place of death | Brooklyn |