James Spaulding
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James Spaulding (born July 30, 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana
) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.
After a period in the US Army he moved to Chicago
in 1957. There he joined the Sun Ra
Arkestra, making several recordings and remaining through 1959. He subsequently freelanced as a studio musician and occasionally led his own groups before returning to Indianapolis in 1961.
On relocating to New York City
in 1963, he recorded extensively for Blue Note Records
as a sideman.
He was also a member of the World Saxophone Quartet
for a time.
With Freddie Hubbard
With Bobby Hutcherson
With Lee Morgan
With David Murray
With Duke Pearson
With Sam Rivers
With Pharoah Sanders
With Wayne Shorter
With Sun Ra
With Stanley Turrentine
With Tyrone Washington
With Larry Young
- Although,James Spaulding has a daughter named Yolanda S. Spaulding who currently worked at George E Webican P.S.309 school.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
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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...
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James Spaulding (born July 30, 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.
After a period in the US Army he moved to Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
in 1957. There he joined the Sun Ra
Sun Ra
Sun Ra was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama...
Arkestra, making several recordings and remaining through 1959. He subsequently freelanced as a studio musician and occasionally led his own groups before returning to Indianapolis in 1961.
On relocating to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
in 1963, he recorded extensively for Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
as a sideman.
He was also a member of the World Saxophone Quartet
World Saxophone Quartet
The World Saxophone Quartet is a jazz ensemble founded in 1977, implementing elements of free funk and African jazz into their musical routines.-History:...
for a time.
As leader
- 1976: James Spaulding Plays the Legacy of Duke (StoryvilleStoryvilleStoryville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 through 1917. Locals usually simply referred to the area as The District.-History:...
) - 1988: Gotstabe a Better Way (Muse RecordsMuse RecordsMuse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s...
) - 1988: Brilliant Corners (Muse)
- 1991: Songs of Courage (Muse)
- 1993: Blues Nexus (Muse)
- 1996: Smile of the Snake (HighNote RecordsHighNote RecordsHighNote Records is an American record label based in New York City, specializing in jazz music.HighNote was founded by Joe Fields, who worked for Prestige Records as an executive in the 1960s and founded Muse Records in the 1970s. He co-founded HighNote and its sister label, Savant Records, in...
) - 1999: Brilliant Colors (32)
- 1999: Escapade (High Note)
- 2005: Round to It Vol. 2
As sideman
With Grant GreenGrant Green
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....
- SolidSolid (Grant Green album)Solid is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1964 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1979. The CD reissue included one bonus track.-Reception:...
(1964)
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...
- Hub-TonesHub-TonesHub-Tones is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded on October 10, 1962 and released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4115 and BST 84115. It features performances by Hubbard, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Reggie Workman and Clifford Jarvis...
(1962)
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...
- ComponentsComponents (album)Components is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The first side of the LP features compositions by Hutcherson, in a hard bop style, whilst the second side features Joe Chambers' compositions, more in the avant-garde style.-Tracklist:1....
(1965) - PatternsPatterns (album)Patterns is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Blue Note label. Although recorded in 1968, the album was not released until 1980...
(1968)
With Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...
- StandardsStandards (Lee Morgan album)Standards is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded on January 13, 1967 but not released until 1998 and features performances by Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams and Mickey Roker with...
(1967)
With David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)
David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
- Hope ScopeHope ScopeHope Scope is the fourteenth album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label and the fifth to feature his Octet. It was released in 1991 and features performances by Murray, Rasul Siddik, Hugh Ragin, Craig Harris, James Spaulding, Dave Burrell, Wilber Morris and Ralph...
- PicassoPicasso (album)Picasso is an album by the David Murray Octet released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1993 and features performances by Murray, Rasul Siddik, Hugh Ragin, Craig Harris, James Spaulding, Dave Burrell, Wilber Morris and Tani Tabbal.-Reception:...
(1993) - Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful DeadDark Star: The Music of the Grateful DeadDark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead is an album by the David Murray Octet released on the Astor Place label. It was released in 1996 and contains Murray's versions of compositions by the Grateful Dead...
(1996) - Octet Plays TraneOctet Plays TraneOctet Plays Trane is an album by the David Murray Octet released on the Justin Time label. Recorded in 1999 and released in 2000 the album and features performances by Murray, Rasul Siddick, Hugh Ragin, Craig Harris, James Spaulding, Ravi Best, D. D. Jackson, Mark Johnson and Jaribu Shahid...
(1999)
With Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic notes him as being a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a producer."-History:...
- Wahoo!Wahoo!Wahoo! is an album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson, featuring performances recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label in 1965.-Reception:...
(1964) - HoneybunsHoneybunsHoneybuns is the seventh album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances by Pearson's nonet recorded in 1965 and released on the Atlantic label in 1966.-Reception:...
(1965) - Prairie DogPrairie Dog (album)Prairie Dog is the eighth album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson, and his second for the Atlantic label, recorded in 1966.-Reception:...
(1966) - Sweet Honey BeeSweet Honey BeeSweet Honey Bee is an album by the American jazz pianist and composer Duke Pearson, that was released on the Blue Note label in 1967.-Reception:...
(1966)
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....
- Dimensions & ExtensionsDimensions & ExtensionsDimensions & Extensions is an album by American saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded in 1967 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1986. The album was originally scheduled for issue in 1967 but was held back from release until 1975 when the tracks appeared as part of the Double LP set Involution...
(1967)
With Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award–winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on...
- KarmaKarma (Pharoah Sanders album)Karma is a 1969 jazz recording by the American tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.-Background:The social and political upheavals of the 1960s have been cited as a major factor in the emergence of a new stylistic trend in jazz, with a very different emphasis to previous sub-genres such as swing,...
(1969)
With Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
- The SoothsayerThe Soothsayer- Track listing :All compositions by Wayne Shorter except as indicated.# "Lost" - 7:20# "Angola" - 4:56# "The Big Push" - 8:23# "The Soothsayer" - 9:40# "Lady Day" - 5:36# "Valse Triste" - 7:45# "Angola" [Alternate Take] - 6:41- Personnel :...
(1965) - The All Seeing EyeThe All Seeing EyeThe All Seeing Eye is a jazz album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter recorded on October 15, 1965 and released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4219 and BST 84219. The album features performances by Shorter with Freddie Hubbard, Grachan Moncur III, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe...
(1965) - SchizophreniaSchizophrenia (Wayne Shorter album)-Track listing:# "Tom Thumb" – 6:16# "Go" – 5:42# "Schizophrenia" – 6:50# "Kryptonite" – 6:29# "Miyako" – 5:00# "Playground" – 6:20-Personnel:*Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone*Curtis Fuller – trombone*James Spaulding – flute, alto saxophone...
(1967)
With Sun Ra
Sun Ra
Sun Ra was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama...
- Visits Planet Earth (1957–1958)
- The Nubians of PlutoniaThe Nubians of PlutoniaThe Nubians of Plutonia is an album recorded by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra c.1958 - 1959 and released c.1966 on his own Saturn label. Originally released in a blank sleeve under the title Lady With The Stockings, the album had gained its current title, and sleeve by Richard Pedreguera, by...
(1958) - Jazz in SilhouetteJazz in SilhouetteJazz in Silhouette is a jazz album by Sun Ra and His Arkestra. Recorded on March 6, 1959 and released May of the same year. The album was recorded in Chicago during a session that also included the whole of Sound Sun Pleasure!! and Interstellar Low Ways from the album of the same name...
(1959) - Sound Sun Pleasure!!Sound Sun Pleasure!!Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959 , it wasn't released until 1970 on Sun Ra's Saturn label...
(1959) - Purple NightPurple NightPurple Night is a jazz album by free jazz pioneer Sun Ra.The album was the second in a short-term recording deal with major label A&M Records, who had a "Modern Masters Jazz Series" imprint going at the time...
(1990)
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...
- The Return of the Prodigal SonThe Return of the Prodigal Son (album)The Return of the Prodigal Son is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson featuring McCoy Tyner-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...
(1967) - The Spoiler (1966)
With Tyrone Washington
Tyrone Washington (musician)
Tyrone Washington is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.He is known best for his 1967 debut album for Blue Note Records.-As Leader:*1967: Natural Essence...
- Natural EssenceNatural EssenceNatural Essence is the debut album by American saxophonist Tyrone Washington featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
(1967)
With Larry Young
Larry Young
Larry Young may refer to:* Larry Young , jazz organist* Larry Young , baseball umpire* Larry Young , Olympic racewalker* Larry Young , author of Astronauts in Trouble and publisher, AiT/Planet Lar...
- Of Love And PeaceOf Love And PeaceOf Love And Peace is an album by jazz organist Larry Young, released on the Blue Note label. This album shows a firmer move on Young's part into the realms of free jazz.The album is Young's third for Blue Note records, following on from Unity...
(1966)
- Although,James Spaulding has a daughter named Yolanda S. Spaulding who currently worked at George E Webican P.S.309 school.
- John SpauldingJohn Spaulding (artist)John A. Spaulding was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was born in Lockefield Gardens, the city of Indianapolis' first public housing project. He was the youngest of five children. He attended Indianapolis Public Schools 24 and 26 and attended Arsenal Technical High School. He was a self-taught...
, James Spaulding's brother, John, a sculptor who worked heavily with brass instruments.