Herbie Lewis was an American

United States

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 hard bop

Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...

 double bassist.

He played or recorded with many prominent jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musicians, including Cannonball Adderley, Stanley Turrentine

Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family...

, Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...

, Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

, Harold Land

Harold Land

Harold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to...

, Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...

, Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

, and McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...

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Herbie recorded his last CD Just a Lucky So and So with the Eminence

Eminence

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 Portable Upright Bass.

Herbie Lewis founded the Jazz Studies program at New College of California

New College of California

New College of California was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President, Father John Leary. After 37 years, it ceased operations in early 2008....

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Lewis died of cancer on May 18, 2007.

As Sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

• Great Love Themes
  Great Love Themes
  Great Love Themes is an album recorded in April, 1966 by jazz saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley. It was released on the Capitol label featuring performances of Broadway show tunes by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Lewis and Roy McCurdy...
  
  (1966, Capitol)
• Money in the Pocket
  Money in the Pocket
  Money in the Pocket is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at The Club in Chicago in 1966, but not released on the Capitol label until 2005, featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Lewis and Roy McCurdy...
  
  (1966 - released 2005, Capitol)

With Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

• High Blues Pressure
  High Blues Pressure
  High Blues Pressure is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his second release on the Atlantic label and features performances by Hubbard, James Spaulding, Bennie Maupin, Herbie Lewis, Roman "Dog" Broadus, Weldon Irvine, Kenny Barron, Freddie Waits, Louis Hayes, Howard Johnson, and Kiane...
  
  (1967, Atlantic)
• Above & Beyond
  Above & Beyond (album)
  Above & Beyond is a live album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard recorded on June 17, 1982, at San Francisco's Keystone Korner and released on the Metropolitan label in 1999...
  
  (1982 - released 1999, Metropolitan)

With Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...

• Stick-Up!
  Stick-Up!
  Stick-Up! is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Blue Note label in 1966. The album is Hutcherson's first without drummer Joe Chambers...
  
  (1966, Blue Note)
• Now! (1969, Blue Note)
• Solo / Quartet
  Solo / Quartet
  Solo / Quartet is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1981 and 1982 and released on the Contemporary label.-Reception:...
  
  (Contemporary, 1982)

With Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...

• Let Freedom Ring
  Let Freedom Ring
  Let Freedom Ring is an album by jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1962 and released on Blue Note.McLean wrote three of the four compositions. "Melody for Melonae" is dedicated to his daughter , and appeared as "Melanie" on Matador, a later recording that he made with Kenny Dorham...
  
  (1962, Blue Note)
• Consequence
  Consequence (album)
  Consequence is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1965 but not released until 1979 as part of a Mosaic Records box set and finally released on the Blue Note label in 2005.-Reception:...
  
  (1965 - released 1979, Blue Note)

With Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers , is an American jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....

• A New Conception
  A New Conception
  A New Conception is the third album by American saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label. The album features Rivers' interpretation of seven jazz standard's.-Reception:...
  
  (1966, Blue Note)

With Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

• California Meeting: Live on Broadway
  California Meeting: Live on Broadway
  California Meeting: Live on Broadway is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1985 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
  
  (Soul Note, 1985)

With Stanley Turrentine

Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family...

• That's Where It's At
  That's Where It's At
  That's Where It's At is a Jazz album by Stanley Turrentine recorded by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records. It features the first collaborations between Stanley Turrentine and pianist Les McCann who would only reunite one more time in 1984 for two tracks on Turrentine's record Straight Ahead...
  
  (1962, Blue Note)

With McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...

• Tender Moments
  Tender Moments
  Tender Moments is the eighth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his second released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in December 1967 and features performances by Tyner with Lee Morgan, Julian Priester, Bob Northern, Howard Johnson, James Spaulding, Bennie Maupin, Herbie Lewis, and Joe...
  
  (1967, Blue Note)
• Time for Tyner
  Time for Tyner
  Time for Tyner is the ninth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his third released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in May 1968 and features performances by Tyner with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits.-Reception:...
  
  (1968, Blue Note)
• Expansions
  Expansions (album)
  Expansions is the tenth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his fourth released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in August 1968 and features performances by Tyner with Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits...
  
  (1968, Blue Note)
• Asante
  Asante (album)
  Asante is an album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in 1970 and features performances by Tyner with Andrew White, Ted Dunbar, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Mtume and Songai Sandra Smith providing vocals on two tracks...
  
  (1970, Blue Note)

With Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

 & Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...

• Left Alone '86
  Left Alone '86
  Left Alone '86 is an album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron and saxophonist Jackie McLean released on the Japanese Paddle Wheel label in 1986. The album is a sequel to Waldron's 1959 recording Left Alone which McLean played on the title track.-Reception:...
  
  (1986, Paddle Wheel)

External links

• Herbie Lewis Dies at 66 Obituary from JazzPolice.com.
• Video of Herbie Lewis from 2003