Patience Higgins is a New York-based jazz saxophonist, flutist, and multi-reed musician. He also plays clarinet, oboe, and English horn. He has performed with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Barry Harris, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Scott, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paquito D’Rivera, Cleo Laine, and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet. Higgins has a history as a Broadway musician. He is a music educator and teaches at the New York Jazz Workshop Music School. Higgins has toured with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestras.

In 1998 he was featured artist playing saxophone and flute for double Grammy Award-winning recording Dee Dee Bridgewater's Dear Ella.

Higgins along with the Sugar Hill Quartet were the house band for the Lenox Lounge, and regular Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub in Harlem. His 1998 album 'Live in Harlem' documents Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub.

Career Higgins has also performed with the Duke Ellington Band under the direction of Mercer Ellington, and Paul Ellington. He has been a member of the Duke Ellington Band for over twenty years. He has toured and recorded with Frank Foster, Rodney Kendrick, Yoko Ono, Cleo Laine and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet, Vanessa Rubin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Pointer Sisters, Don Byron, Hamiett Bluiett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Nicolas Payton, David Murray, Aretha Franklin, Savion Glover, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Sam Rivers, Charles Tolliver, Sam and Dave, Bobby Watson & Tailor Made, Archie Shepp, Wilson Pickett, Barry Harris, Muhal Richard Abrams, Stevie Wonder, Paquito D’Rivera, James Zollar, Bobby Short, Chip White, Wilson Pickett, Joey DeFrancesco, Kiane Zawadi, Eli Fountain, Leopaldo Fleming.

Discography

Album appearances Year Album Artist Instrument(s) 2018 The Atomic Bomb Blues The Dave Taylor Octet / Dave Taylor Oboe, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor), Soloist 2017 Splendor in the Grass/The Manchurian Candidate [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] David Amram Saxophone 2017 Run- 'N Fly Run- 'N Fly Saxophone 2015All My TomorrowsSteve Cromity Guest Artist, Flute, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor) 2015 Building Up the Kingdom M. Roger HollandClarinet2013 Golden AgeMister Fred Oboe 2012Thoughts on God Eric Person Clarinet, Sax (Tenor), Soloist 2010 A Second ChanceDorothy Leigh Clarinet (Bass), Flute, Sax (Baritone) 2010 The Tinderbox Musical Sax (Baritone) 2010 What Is Love? Queen Esther Sax (Tenor) 2009More DedicationsChip White Alto, Flute, Sax (Soprano) 2008 Me, Marsalis & Monk Whitney Marchelle Main Personnel, Sax (Soprano) 2007 Down for You Darby Dizard Clarinet 2005Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 7 Sax (Alto) 2005 Underneath a Brooklyn MoonJ.C. Hopkins Biggish Band Main Personnel, Sax (Tenor), Soloist 2004 I'm Not a Sometime ThingCarol Mennie Main Personnel, Reeds, Saxophone 2004 Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington Jabbo Ware Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) 2003 Avenue Q Flute, Clarinet, Sax (Alto) 2003 Organized! Swingadelic Sax (Alto), Group Member 2002 Blueblack Hamiet Bluiett Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) 2001 Aftermath Mike Longo / Mike Longo & the New York State of the Art Jazz Band Reeds 2001 Lifeline Suzanne Couch Sax (Tenor) 2001 A Great Day in C'Ville: Jazz from the Piedmont Sax (Baritone) 2000 Boogie Boo! Swingadelic Sax (Baritone) 1999 ITheorcolus Flute, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto) 1998 3 A.M.Rich Shemaria Flute (Alto), Sax (Baritone) 1998 Libation for the Baritone Saxophone Nation Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group / Hamiet Bluiett Sax (Baritone), Composer 1998 Live in HarlemPatience Higgins Primary Artist, Sax (Tenor) 1998 PotpourriDMP Big Band Multi Instruments 1998 Swingin' with Legends Angela DeNiro Flute, Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) 1997 DMP Big Band Salutes Duke Ellington DMP Big Band Sax (Tenor), Group Member 1997 Dear Ella Dee Dee Bridgewater Sax (Baritone) 1997 He Leadeth MeCissy Houston Sax (Baritone) 1997 Live at the Knitting Factory Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group Sax (Baritone) 1997 No Way to Treat a Lady Flute, Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Oboe, Sax (Tenor) 1997 Waves of Peace Nancie Banks Flute, Saxophone 1995 Carved in Stone DMP Big Band Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone 1995 Heritage Is James Jabbo Ware & the Me We & Them Orchestra Clarinet, Sax (Baritone) 1995 Last Chance for Common Sense Rodney Kendrick Clarinet (Bass), Horn (English), Sax (Baritone) 1995New York Rock [Original Cast] Yoko OnoFlute, Saxophone 1995One Line, Two Views Muhal Richard Abrams tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion, voice 1995 South of the Border David Murray Saxophone, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Soloist 1994 Live at the Village Vanguard Hamiet Bluiett Composer 1994 Bert's Blues Nancie Banks OrchestraSax (Tenor) 1994 Remembering Billy Strayhorn Errol ParkerSax (Bass) 1994 Solitude Cleo Laine Sax (Alto) 1993 Dance, World, DanceRodney Kendrick Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) 1993 Family Talk Muhal Richard Abrams Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Horn (English), Sax (Tenor), Horn 1993 Pieces of Woo: The Other SideBernie Worrell Clarinet 1993Tailor Made Bobby Watson Clarinet, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor) 1992 Help Is Coming Chuck Metcalf Octet Featuring Patience Higgins Sax (Tenor), Flute 1992 David Murray Big Band David Murray Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor) 1991 Blu Blu Blu Muhal Richard Abrams Flute, Clarinet, Sax (Baritone) 1991 Errol Parker Tentet Errol Parker Sax (Baritone) 1990 Where Were You? Joey DeFrancesco Sax (Tenor) 1989 Music Is My Mistress Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Sax (Tenor) 1989 The Hearinga Suite Muhal Richard Abrams / The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Tenor) 1989 Music Masters Jazz Sampler Sax (Tenor) 1986 Country Girl Amina Claudine Myers Flute, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto) 1983 Rejoicing with the Light Muhal Richard Abrams / The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra Clarinet, Clarinet (Alto), Sax (Baritone)1982 Colours Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan Flute, Sax (Baritone) 1979 Attica Blues Big Band Archie Shepp Main Personnel, Flute, Saxophone, Wind 1976 The Runaways [Original Soundtrack] Original Broadway Cast Flute, Saxophone, Improvisation, Primary Artist

Movie Soundtracks The Cotton Club School Daze Awakenings Soul to Soul Baby Boy

Theater Credits AVE Q, DREAMGIRLS THE WIZ AIN’T MISBHEVIN’ BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR BLACK & BLUE RUNAWAYS HAIR SOPHISTICATED LADIES JELLY’S LAST JAM 5 GUYS NAMED MOE CHICAGO

Jazz Festivals NORTH SEA PORI MONTREAUX JVC NANCY WILLASAU VIENNE BERLIN PLAY BOY MONTEREY NEWPORT GLASKOW COPENHAGEN MONTREAL JAZZ HERITAGE in New Orleans. CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTIVAL (in New York City)

References

External links Duke Ellington & his orchestra - Take the 'A' train (live in Berlin 1969) Lenox Lounge, Sugar Hill Quartet, Patience Higgins, Dave Gibson, George Caldwell, Andy Mc Cloud, Marcus Percianni, Harlem N.Y. Patience Higgins Sugar Hill Quartet Live @ Lenox Lounge Playlists featuring Patience Higgins