makpjazz57 Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Hi, A friend is asking me to identify the trumpet player on Milt Jackson's LP, Opus De Funk, Prestige '54, with Jimmy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Horace Silver and Henry Boozier on trumpet (is this Miles Davis)? Ashamed to say I do not have this recording. Obviously "Henry Boozier" is a pseudonym for someone who was, perhaps, under contract to another record label? Thanks! Marla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Not true at all. Henry Boozier was a real trumpeter. Made several sessions in the 1950s and early 1960s and worked in blues bands - B. B. King's for one. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makpjazz57 Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Thank you, Mike! Sorry for the assumption. Would Henry Boozier's recording be out of print? Marla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 There are no sessions as a leader, sorry if my wording misled you about that. The Milt Jackson album on Prestige is on OJC 125. A later Milt Jackson album (Vibrations) is Atlantic 1417, but I don't think it's in print. Ditto for a 1961 live record by the Al Grey/Billy Mitchell Sextet on Argo 689. No idea whether early items by Charlie Singleton, Paul Williams, or Gatemouth Brown have made it onto European "complete" sets. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 (edited) The Collectables guys bothered to put Vibrations on CD together with The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson - I should have bought it for Boozier alone. The Ballad album is with strings arranged by Quincy Jones, but very well done. It can be ordered from oldies.com for $ 12.97 plus shipping. There may be a lot of trumpet players technically more assured, but he had a beautiful, round, fat tone in the Freddie Webster tradition, especially in the lower range. I doubt that he solos on the R&B sessions he is on. Edited November 16, 2004 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 The Al Grey was reissued on US and Japanese LP, but may be hard to find. Those Al Grey Argo/Cadet LPs would make a verrrrry nice Mosaic ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Of the four sides recorded at the 1954 Charlie Singleton session for Sunset, only one title was issued as a single - Freddie Redd and Jimmy Cobb were in that band. Michael Frohne's recent Freddie Redd disco does not show any reissues. The four Paul Williams sides from 1952 originally on Norgran were reissued on a Swedish LP Saxophonograph BP-500. (Richie Powell and Sam Jones were in that band - the wealth of great jazzmen doing time in R&B bands in the 1940's and 1950's remains amazing.) The Gatemouth Brown 1956 Peacock sides should be available - I heard two of them many years ago but don't remember any trumpet solos - would have been unusual for a blues side at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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