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Prince Robinson (* 7. Juni 1902 in Portsmouth (Virginia), Virginia; † 23. Juli 1960 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz - Tenorsaxophonist und Klarinettist des Swing.
19. Mai 2012 · Prince Robinson, born Glendale, California in 1953, died Berlin Germany 2011. This track is taken from a collection of jazz standards recorded in the last years of his life. He also produced a...
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Prince Robinson (June 7, 1902 – July 23, 1960) was an American jazz reed player. He was known for soloing on both tenor saxophone and clarinet in the same recording.
- Personal and Musical Background
- Quickly Building A Reputation
- With Ellington
- Growing Fame with Mckinney
- Hawkins’s Ascent and McKinney’s Decline
- The Swing Era
- With Armstrong
- Final Years
Little is known about Prince Robinson’s family or upbringing. “Meet the Members of the Red Allen Band,” written by Thurman and Mary Grove for Record Changermagazine in April 1954, provides the lengthiest direct quotes from him. Yet Robinson doesn’t discuss his background other than mentioning his birthplace of Portsmouth, Virginia. Public documents...
By 1924, Robinson was playing with cornetist June Clark and making his first records with a group called the Seminole Syncopators on Okeh. Robinson shows himself to be an energetic but sympathetic ensemble member. On “Blue Grass Blues,” his clarinet obbligato gives a wide berth to Harry Cooper’s trumpet, mostly sticking to rhythmic figures that acc...
Duke Ellington was another Robinson admirer and was eager to hire him. Stewart describes how “[Ellington] and Elmer Snowden carried on a tug-of-war over the services of Prince Robinson, who was about the best clarinet and tenor sax man in the city.” Stewart’s description alludes to Robinson outpacing Hawkins as a multi-instrumentalist. Doubling at ...
Exactly when or why Robinson joined McKinney’s Cotton Pickers is uncertain. In his bio-discography McKinney’s Music, John Chilton says Robinson joined right after arranger/saxophonist Don Redman in the summer of 1927. But ship records confirm the Abbey band and Robinson didn’t get back to New York until October of 1927. According to research into G...
History is rarely partitioned into neat junctures, but at some point, Hawkins definitively outpaced Robinson among their peers. For reed player Eddie Barefield, it came down to one night: I remember times back in the years with the Cotton Pickers when Prince Robinson was the featured tenor player…and everybody was beginning to say then, “well, he’s...
Robinson seems to have stayed with the declining McKinney band until it broke up in Boston in 1935. He joined vocalist Blanche Calloway while recording on the side with others. This spare recording period still illustrates Robinson’s versatility. On record with Calloway, he gets two charging tenor solos on “Louisiana Liza” and a more laid-back but ...
After Eldridge, Robinson joined Louis Armstrong at the height of his popular appeal. On record, Robinson starts with Armstrong in one of the few small groups the great artist waxed from this period. “Ev’rything’s Been Done Before” has some brightly shaped and downright lovely clarinet before and behind the vocal. Smoky tenor obbligatos color “Do Yo...
Robinson left Armstrong after four years “because of the impossible travel difficulties during the war [and then] jobbed about New York playing clubs like Café Societyand in pit bands for musicals.” Robinson’s period as a freelancer is surprisingly well-documented but sadly under-recorded. He played with Benny Morton at Café Society Downtown in the...
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Prince Robinson. American jazz saxophonist (tenor) and clarinetist. Born : June 07 (or possibly February 07), 1902 in Portsmouth, Virginia. Died : July 23, 1960 in New York City. He played with : Lilian Jones' Jazz Hounds (first worked), Quentin Redd's Band, Lionel Howard's Musical Aces, Elmer Snowden, June Clark .
21. Apr. 2016 · A pop renaissance man of unmatched talent, Prince was obsessed with ownership of his work—and why shouldn’t he have been?
