Tate Houston

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Tate Houston (* around 1920; † unknown) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( baritone saxophone , also tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Houston was a member of the Billy Eckstine Orchestra in the mid-1940s , with which the first recordings were made in early 1946 ("I Only Have Eyes for You"). In the following years he worked with Sir Charles Thompson , JC Heard , Hal Singer , Phil Hill , Big John Greer and Lucky Millinder . From 1950 he also played in Detroit with Wild Bill Moore , in the middle of the decade in Chicago with Wardell Gray and with James Moody ( Moody's Mood for Love ), from 1957 in New York with Maynard Ferguson , Curtis Fuller ( Bone & Bari , 1959), Milt Jackson , Ernestine Anderson , Nat Adderley , Yusef Lateef ( The Centaur and the Phoenix , 1960) and Sam Jones . In the first half of the 1960s he was still involved in recordings of Tadd Dameron ( The Magic Touch ), Edgar Battle and His Jazz Pioneers ( House Rent Party Music for a Harlem House Hop , 1964), Freddie McCoy and the Killer Joe Orchestra ( Killer Joe's International Discotheque , 1965) with. In the field of jazz he was involved in 31 recording sessions between 1946 and 1972, most recently with a new edition of McKinney's Cotton Pickers , a. a. with Tom Saunders .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With Melvin Lastie , King Curtis , George Stubbs , Cornell Dupree , Eric Gale , Chuck Rainey , Ray Lucas and Killer Joe Piro
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 21, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Houston, Tate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century