Birth name Jimmy Cleveland Name Jimmy Cleveland Instruments trombone Role Musician | Years active 1951-2008 Genres Bebop, Hard bop | |
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Born May 3, 1926Wartrace, Tennessee, United States ( 1926-05-03 ) Labels Emarcy RecordsVerve Records Albums The Trombones - Inc, 3 Bones And A Quill, Miles Ahead, Lucky Thompson Meets Os, Maynard Ferguson And His B | ||
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James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.
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Cleveland worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford and James Brown. He also recorded a sequence of albums for EmArcy/Mercury Records in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued to make records with Zion Records later in his career.
Cleveland died August 23, 2008 in Lynwood, California at age 82.
As leader
As sideman
with Julian Cannonball Adderley
With Gene Ammons
With Dorothy Ashby
With Art Blakey
With Brass Fever
with James Brown: