| Genres: |
Jazz
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| Descriptive "tags": |
jazz • cool • classic rock • hard bop • under 2000 listeners • baritone-sax
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
15 November 1920, Sealy, Texas, USA, d. 23 June 2000, Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Raised in California as an adopted child, Richardson began playing alto saxophone in local bands in his early teens. In 1941 he was briefly with the Jimmie Lunceford band, then, after military service in the navy’s pre-flight school orchestra during World War II (led by Marshal Royal), he played in bands headed by Lionel Hampton and Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines. In 1953 he relocated to New York City, working at Minton’s Playhouse with his own group. His own recording sessions for New Jazz Records saw him playing tenor, flute and baritone. The same decade he worked with such leading swing and bop musicians as Lucky Millinder, Kenny Burrell, Gerry Mulligan and Oscar Pettiford. In 1959, he began an association with Quincy Jones, including a nine-month stint with the musical show Free And Easy, and also accompanied several leading song stylists. In 1965,...
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