Jay Cameron
Jay Cameron (September 14, 1928 – March 20, 2001) was an American jazz reed musician who played the bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, and B-flat clarinet.
Jay Cameron | |
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| Born | September 14, 1928 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 20, 2001 (aged 72) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | Bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, clarinet |
Career
Cameron began as an alto saxophonist but later recorded with bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, and B-flat clarinet. His career began in the early 1940s in Hollywood with Isaac M. Carpenter's band, with whom he played until 1947.[1]
Cameron moved to Europe near the end of the decade and played with Rex Stewart, Bill Coleman, Roy Haynes and Henri Renaud in France and Italy; in the early 1950s Cameron gigged around Belgium, Germany, and Scandinavia. In 1955 he played steadily in Paris with a band that included Bobby Jaspar, Barney Wilen and Jean-Louis Chautemps. He returned to the United States in 1956, playing in the bands of Woody Herman (1956) and Slide Hampton (1960). He also worked with Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson (1957–58), Freddie Hubbard (1958), Candido Camero, Bill Barron, André Hodeir, Hal McKusick, and Les and Larry Elgart. He led the International Sax Band and the Third Herdsmen. In the late-1960s, Cameron toured with Paul Winter.
Personal life
Cameron was born in New York City and died in San Diego.[2]
Discography
As leader
- Jay Cameron's International Sax-Band (Swing, 1955)
As sideman
With Slide Hampton
- Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (Strand, 1961)
- Sister Salvation (Atlantic, 1960)
- Somethin' Sanctified (Atlantic, 1961)
- Two Sides of Slide (Charlie Parker, 1961)
- Jazz with a Twist (Atlantic, 1962)
- Drum Suite (Epic, 1962)
- Exodus (Philips, 1962)
- Explosion! The Sound of Slide Hampton (Atlantic, 1962)
With others
- Bill Barron, Modern Windows (Savoy, 1962)
- Cándido Camero, Conga Soul (Roulette, 1962)
- Maynard Ferguson, A Message from Newport (Roulette, 1960)
- Dodo Greene, Ain't What You Do (Time, 1959)
- Roy Haynes, Roy Haynes Modern Group (Swing, 1955)
- Woody Herman, Blues Groove (Capitol, 1956)
- Andre Hodeir, American Jazzmen Play Andre Hodeir's Essais (Savoy, 1957)
- Hal McKusick, Cross Section-Saxes (Decca, 1958)
- Hal McKusick, Now's the Time (Decca, 1995)
- Anthony Ortega, Jazz for Young Moderns (and Old Buzzards, Too) (Bethlehem, 1959)
- Anthony Ortega, Earth Dance (Fresh Sound, 2001)
- Herb Pomeroy & Maynard Ferguson, Trumpets Out Front (Vogue, 1971)
- Paul Winter, New Jazz On Campus (Columbia, 1963)
- Paul Winter, Jazz Meets the Folk Song (Columbia, 1964)
- Paul Winter/Bola Sete & Vince Guaraldi, Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual (Koch, 2001)
Further reading
- Jay Cameron at Allmusic
- Bill Moody, The Jazz Exiles:American Musicians Abroad. Includes a chapter on Cameron.
References
- "Jay Cameron: Sax Band, 1955 - JazzWax". www.jazzwax.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8.