Ray Codrington
Ray Codrington (* around 1940 in Dunn , North Carolina ) is an American jazz trumpeter (also flugelhorn , trombone , vocals ) and university professor.
Codrington grew up in Fayetteville and studied at Howard University . In the early 1960s he was a member of the JFK Quintet around Andrew White . From the middle of the decade he worked a. a. with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra (around Michael Mantler , Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy ), also with Eddie Harris (“ Freedom Jazz Dance ” 1965) and Larry Willis , and in the 1980s with Roland Hanna . In the field of film music he worked for Hugo Montenegro ; He can also be heard in the soundtrack of The Godfather: Part II . in his later years he was an adjunct professor at East Carolina University and continued to perform as a musician in the southeastern United States. He currently plays in the John Brown Quintet locally. In the field of jazz he was involved in twenty recording sessions between 1961 and 2009, most recently in 2010 with Nnenna Freelon .
Web links
- Ray Codrington at Allmusic (English)
- Ray Codrington at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ncpedia.org/jazz
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 25, 2014 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.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 21, 2014)
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| SURNAME | Codrington, Ray |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter (also flugelhorn, trombone, vocals) and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunn , North Carolina |