Sammy Rimington

Sammy Rimington (center), at a jazz funeral in New Orleans (1994) with Chris Burke (left) and Dr. Michael White (right).

Samuel "Sammy" Rimington (born April 29, 1942 in Paddock Wood , Kent ) is an English jazz musician ( clarinet , saxophone , guitar , mandolin , flute ) who has been involved in the revival of New Orleans jazz since the late 1950s .

Live and act

Rimington learned guitar for four years and initially played in Jim Maning's Climax Band and the Paragon Jazz Band. At the end of 1958 he was part of Dave Reynolds' band, and then worked for Pete Dyers, John Shilito and the New Teao Band. In late 1959 he joined Barry Martin to play with Ken Colyer from May 1960 . In 1961 he visited New Orleans for the first time , where he returned in the summer of 1962. With Colyer he was clarinetist until 1965, in his skiffle band guitarist. In 1965 he went back to the USA, where he led his own band, together with Captain John Handy and Kid Thomas Valentine , and where he performed with the Hall Brothers Band. In 1967 he returned to London, where he worked with Barry Martyn before forming his own band. With his band Armada , which merged jazz, rock and R&B, he toured Europe in the early 1970s, then worked with Mike Casimir, Doc Houlind , George Webb and Judith Durham . Then he toured the US with Duke Burrell's Louisiana Shakers and the Legends of Jazz . In Europe he performed in 1977 with Jabbo Smith and then with Chris Barber . Since the 1980s he has led his own bands again (with Colin T. Dawson, among others ) . As a woodwind player, he accompanied numerous Americans traveling through such as Thomas Jefferson , Alton Purnell and Sammy Lee.

Discographic notes

• Armarda (1971)
• New Orleans Music (1973)
• New Orleans Christmas
• Exciting Sax
• On Tour with T. Jefferson
• Sammy Rimington Quartet and Doc Houlind
• Jazz At Quines (1978)
• Sammy Rimington Plays the Clarinet of George Lewis (1989)
• Louis Nelson's New Orleans All Stars Live in Japan (1988)
• Live in Switzerland (1983)
• Hymns (2000)

Lexical entries

• Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
• John Chilton : Who's Who of British Jazz. London 2004, ISBN 978-0826472342 .

Web links

Commons : Sammy Rimington  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence with extensive discography
• Sammy Rimington at Allmusic (English)