Joseph Edward Filippelli (March 26, 1915 – August 17, 2001), known professionally as Flip Phillips, was an American

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tenor saxophone and clarinet player. He is best remembered for his work with Norman Granz's

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concerts from 1946 to 1957. Phillips recorded an album for Verve when he was in his 80s. He performed in a variety of genres, including mainstream jazz,

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, and

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Career

He was born in

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, United States. During the 1930s, Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo,

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, and Wingy Manone. He was a regular soloist for the

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band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with

. He retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again and performing into his 80s. He recorded extensively for

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in the 1940s and 1950s, including a 1949 album of small-group tracks under his leadership with Buddy Morrow,

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, Sonny Criss, Ray Brown, and Shelly Manne. He accompanied

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on her 1952 album ''Billie Holiday Sings''. He died in August 2001, in

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, at the age of 86.

Discography

As leader

* ''Flip Phillips Collates'' (

, 1952) * ''Flip Phillips Collates Vol. 2'' (Clef, 1953) * ''Flip Phillips Quartet'' ( Mercury, 1953) * ''Jumping Moods'' (Clef, 1954) * ''Rock with Flip'' (Clef, 1954) * ''

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'' (Clef, 1954) * ''Flip Phillips Quintet'' (Clef, 1955) * ''The Battle of the Saxes'' (American Recording Society, 1956) * ''Flip'' (Clef, 1956) * ''Flip Wails'' (Clef, 1956) * ''Swingin' with Flip Phillips and His Orchestra'' (1956) * ''Flip in Florida'' (Onyx, 1963) * ''Your Place or Mine?'' (Jump, 1963) * ''Flip Phillips Revisited'' (1965) * ''Phillips's Head'' (Choice, 1975) * ''John & Joe'' (

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, 1977) * ''Live at the Beowulf'' (1978) * ''Flipenstein'' ( Progressive, 1981) * ''The Claw: Live at the Floating Jazz Festival'' (Chiaroscuro, 1986) * ''A Sound Investment'' with Scott Hamilton (

Concord Jazz Concord Jazz is a record company and label founded in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, California. The label was named after the city in the East San Francisco Bay area, and the ...

, 1987) * ''A Real Swinger'' (Concord Jazz, 1988) * ''Try a Little Tenderness'' (Chiaroscuro, 1992) * ''Live at the 1993 Floating Jazz Festival'' (Chiaroscuro, 1993) * ''Spanish Eyes'' (

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, 1997) * ''John & Joe Revisited'' (Chiaroscuro, 1999) * ''Swing Is the Thing!'' ( Verve, 2000) * ''Celebrates His 80th Birthday at the March of Jazz 1995'' ( Arbors, 2003) * ''Live at the Beowulf: Arbors Historical Series, Vol. 5'' (Arbors, 2004)

As sideman

With Johnny Hodges * '' In a Tender Mood'' (Norgran, 1952 955 With Gene Krupa and

Buddy Rich Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time. Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, ...

* ''

The Drum Battle ''The Drum Battle – Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at JATP'' (later issued as ''The Original Drum Battle!'') is a 1960 live album by drummers Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, recorded at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall in 1952. Recepti ...

'' (Verve, 1952 960 With

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* ''

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'' (

, 1954)

External links

References

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