Saints & Sinners was an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 sextet, founded by Red Richards

Red Richards

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 and Vic Dickenson

Vic Dickenson

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 in 1960. The group was initially an impromptu pickup ensemble, but soon became one of the highly regarded Dixieland jazz

Dixieland Jazz

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 ensembles of the 1960s. The group toured the U.S. and Canada and did two tours of Europe

Europe

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 in 1968 and 1969 before disbanding in 1970. Its members included Herman Autrey

Herman Autrey

Herman Autrey was an American jazz trumpeter.Autrey was born into a musical family, and began on alto horn before taking up trumpet as a teenager and gigging locally in Pittsburgh and Florida. After some time in Florida he worked in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City, where he...

, Buster Bailey

Buster Bailey

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, Rudy Powell

Rudy Powell

Rudy Powell was an American jazz reed player.Powell learned piano and violin while young, and then switched to clarinet and saxophone. In the late 1920s he played with June Clark, Gene Rodgers's Revellers, and Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kats...

, Buddy Tate, Truck Parham

Truck Parham

Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham was an American jazz double-bassist.Parham played professional sports early in his career; he was a boxer and played football with the Chicago Negro All Stars. He played drums before settling on bass, and studied under Walter Page...

, Barrett Deems

Barrett Deems

Barrett Deems was an American swing music jazz drummer born in Springfield, Illinois, probably best known for his work with jazz musicians Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong , Red Norvo, and Muggsy Spanier.Deems died of pneumonia in Chicago, in September 1998, at the age...

, George Foster, George Reed, and Dan Mastri.

Discography

• Saints & Sinners (1966)
• Saints & Sinners in Canada (1968)
• Saints & Sinners in Europe (Saba Records, 1969)