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I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!


Jerome Richardson


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King Together Again. He played with Charles Mingus Lionel Hampton the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and later with Earl Hines' small band. Discography


As leader
1958: Midnight Oil (New Jazz with Jimmy Cleveland Hank Jones Kenny Burrell Joe Benjamin Charlie Persip)
1959: Roamin' with Richardson (New Jazz with Richard Wyands George Tucker Charlie Persip)
1967: Groove Merchant (Verve with Grady Tate Ernest Hayes Chuck Rainey Snooky Young Joe Newman Warren Smith Eric Gale
1996: Jazz Station Runaway (TCB with Russell Malone George Mraz Lewis Nash David Hazeltine)


As sideman
1955: Kenny Clarke: Bohemia After Dark
1955: Nat Adderley: That's Nat
1955: Sarah Vaughan: In the Land of Hi-Fi'(Mercury)
1956: Cannonball Adderley: In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley
1956: Kenny Burrell: All Night Long (Prestige)
1957: Phineas Newborn Jr.

He played with Charles Mingus Lionel Hampton the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and later with Earl Hines' small band. Richardson was born in Oakland California and died in Englewood New Jersey. Jerome Richardson (December 25 1920 – June 23 2000) was an American jazz musician tenor saxophonist and flute player who also played alto sax baritone sax clarinet and piccolo.

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