HOWARD MCGHEE

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

MILES LOOKING LIKE OMG LOL

THEN HE’S LIKE FORGET IT!!!

I’LL JUST PLAY PIANO WHATEVER… LOL!!!

MCGHEE WAS FYAH ON THE HORN.

I NEVER HEARD SOMEBODY SO SMOOTH.

MILES CLEARLY GOT THAT MUTED SOUND IDEA FROM OUR L.A. AKH!

Bass – Ron Carter Drums – Walter Bolden Flute – Roland Alexander Piano – Tommy Flanagan Tenor Saxophone – Roland Alexander Trombone – Bennie Green
Trumpet – H̲o̲w̲a̲r̲d̲ ̲M̲c̲G̲h̲e̲e̲

Although like most J musicians he did do some time in the rotten apple

MONK, MCGHEE, ROY ELRIDGE AND PROMOTER TEDDY HILL OUTSIDE MINTON’S – BE-BOP, BABY!!!

SHORT BIO FROM HOWARD’S EULOGY IN THE L.A. TIMES – JULY 20, 1987

Howard McGhee, one of the first jazz trumpeters to create the be-bop sound on the West Coast, died Friday in New York City. He was 69.

Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918, McGhee, who acquired the off-beat moniker “Maggie,” first achieved prominence in the early 1940s in Detroit as a member of Lionel Hampton’s band, where he became known as a dazzling soloist.

But he achieved his widest fame as a member of the legendary be-bop band of Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie, which arrived in Los Angeles in 1945. He later recorded with Parker and his own groups on Dial records. He was especially noted for solos marked by a clear sound and a jauntily swinging rhythm. The best-known of his recordings is a 1948 Blue Note album, “Boperation”

After a decade of obscurity, McGhee re-emerged in the 1960s in New York, where he made his home, working with J. J. Johnson and Sonny Stitt. He returned to recording and made what critics consider some of his best records. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he led a big band noted for a lively sound and a driving rhythm.

Jazz critic Nat Hentoff cited him as “a unique example of a jazzman who has spanned several stylistic eras, adapting himself to each while retaining an intensely personal tone and conception.”

I don’t know if it’s the song or him but this takes me right back to JACKSON’S SKWAYUH!!!

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Totally out of context but….

I went to the beach this morning and well uh Yayee-Yayee!!! LOL!!! 🙂