George Barrow (September 25, 1921 – March 20, 2013Jazz legend George Barrow is dead at 91 Daily News. Retrieved 24 October 2023.) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and baritone.
Career Self-taught on the saxophone, flute, and clarinet, by the mid-1950s, he was playing in different line-ups led by Charles Mingus,Jenkins, Todd S. (2006) I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus, p. 34. Greenwood Publishing Group At Google Books. Retrieved 23 June 2013. including the Quintet (with Eddie Bert, Mal Waldron and Max Roach) before going on to join line-ups led by Ernie Wilkins, including the Ernie Wilkins-Kenny Clarke Septet and the Ernie Wilkins Orchestra, as well as with Oliver Nelson, notably on the classic album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, although he did not take solos on the album.
Discography
As leader The Amram-Barrow Quartet – with David Amram
As sideman With Kenny Clarke and Ernie Wilkins Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins (Savoy, 1955) With Charles Mingus The Moods of Mingus (Savoy, 1955)Savoy 15000 series Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 23 June 2013. Mingus at the Bohemia (Debut, 1955)Charles Mingus Catalog Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 23 June 2013. The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (Debut, 1955)
With Teddy Charles The Teddy Charles Tentet (Atlantic, 1956) Word from Bird (Atlantic, 1957)
With The Three Playmates The Three Playmates (Savoy, 1957)Savoy Records discography Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Trane Whistle (Prestige, 1960)
With Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse, 1961)
With Gene Ammons Soul Summit Vol. 2 (Prestige, 1962) Late Hour Special (Prestige, 1964) Velvet Soul (Prestige, 1964)
With Jimmy Forrest Soul Street (New Jazz, 1962)
With Etta Jones From the Heart (Prestige, 1962)
With Jimmy Smith Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (Verve, 1962)
With Clark Terry Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American (Moodsville, 1962)
With Frank Wess Southern Comfort (Prestige, 1962)
With Bill Dixon Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (Savoy, 1964)
With Bobby Timmons Got to Get It! (Milestone, 1967)
With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM, 1968)
With Melvin Van Peebles Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (A&M, 1971) With Jimmy Owens Headin' Home (A&M/Horizon, 1978)
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