Joseph Rupert Benjamin (November 4, 1919 – January 26, 1974) was an American
jazz
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bassist.
Born in
Atlantic City
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, New Jersey, Benjamin played with many jazz musicians in a variety of idioms. Early in his career he played in the
big band
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Duke Ellington
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Hank Garland
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Louis Armstrong
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Jo Jones
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Gary Burton
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Traditionalism Revisited
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "While these ...
The Swinger
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Duke Ellington
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Dizzy Gillespie
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The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953
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With Barry Harris
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Preminado
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Gerry Mulligan
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Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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Background
In 1941 there was a strike against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which Duke Ellington ...
Rendezvous with Rex
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Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass
''Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass'' is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.
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With
Buddy Tate
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Biography
Tate was born in Sherman, Texas, United States, and first played the alto saxophone. According to the website All A ...
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Swinging Like Tate
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Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duk ...
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Color Changes
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Sam Price
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Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
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Swingin' Easy
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On the second chorus of " All of Me" Vaughan bops in "a quite extraordinary fashion, covering more than two octaves" (from the sleeve notes). " Pennies from Heav ...
Kai Winding
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Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Music ...