Benny Bailey
| Benny Bailey | |
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Dexter Gordon, left, with Bailey at the Village Vanguard, June 1977
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ernest Harold Bailey |
| Born |
August 13, 1925 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Died | April 14, 2005 (aged 79) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Genres | Jazz, bebop, hard bop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Trumpet, piano, flute |
| Years active | 1940s–? |
| Labels | Argo, Candid, Concord, MPS, Freedom, Enja, Ego Records, Gemini Records, Jazzcraft Records, TCB Records, Laika Records |
| Associated acts | Bull Moose Jackson, Scatman Crothers, The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, Quincy Jones, Tony Coe, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Redd |
Ernest Harold "Benny" Bailey (13 August 1925 – 14 April 2005) was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter.
Bailey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He had some training in piano and flute in his youth, but switched to trumpet, and concentrated on the instrument while at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He was influenced by his hometown colleague, Tadd Dameron, seven years his elder, and subsequently had a significant influence on other prominent Cleveland musicians including Bill Hardman, Bobby Few, Albert Ayler, Frank Wright and Bob Cunningham. Bailey also played with "Big T" Tony Lovano - Joe Lovano's father.
In the early 1940s he worked with Bull Moose Jackson and Scatman Crothers. He later worked with Dizzy Gillespie and toured with Lionel Hampton. During a European tour with Hampton he decided to stay in Europe and spend time in Sweden. This Swedish period saw him working with Harry Arnold's big band. He tended to prefer big bands over small groups and became associated with several big bands in Europe including the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band. Later he began to work with Quincy Jones and that led to a brief return to the United States in 1960. During this time, he was invited to the studio as part of Freddie Redd's sextet to record the Blue Note Records album Redd's Blues after meeting the pianist during a tour in Sweden, where Bailey had been residing at the time. Shortly thereafter, he returned to Europe first to Germany, and later to the Netherlands, where he would settle permanently.
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