Sammy Rimington

Samuel " Sammy" Rimington ( born April 29, 1942 in Paddock Wood, Kent ) is an English jazz musician (clarinet, saxophone, guitar, mandolin, flute), who has been involved in the late 1950s in the revival of New Orleans jazz.

Life and work

Rimington learned four years guitar and started playing in Jim Manings Climax band and the Paragon Jazz Band. The end of 1958 he belonged to the band of Dave Reynolds, and then to act on Pete Dyer, John Shilito and the New Teao band. He completed the end of 1959, Barry Martin on to play in May 1960, Ken Colyer. In 1961 he first visited New Orleans, where he returned in the summer of 1962. In Colyer, he was until 1965 a clarinetist in whose Skiffleband guitarist. In 1965 he went back to the U.S., where he led his own band, along with Captain John Handy and Kid Thomas Valentine, and where he performed with the Hall Brothers Band. In 1967 he returned to London, where he worked with Barry Martyn before he founded his own band. With his band Armada, jazz, rock and R & B merged, he was traveling in the early 1970s in Europe, and then to work with Mike Casimir, George Webb and Judith Durham. Then he toured in the U.S. with Duke Burrell 's Louisiana Shakers and the Legends of Jazz. In Europe, he performed in 1977 with Jabbo Smith and then with Chris Barber. Since the 1980s he led his own bands again. As a woodwind player, he accompanied by numerous traveling Americans like Thomas Jefferson, Alton Purnell or Sammy Lee.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Armarda (1971 )
• New Orleans Music ( 1973)
• New Orleans Christmas
• Exciting Sax
• On Tour with T. Jefferson
• Sammy Rimington Quartet and Doc Houlind
• Sammy Rimington Plays the Clarinet of George Lewis ( 1989)
• Louis Nelson 's New Orleans All Stars Live in Japan (1988 )
• Live in Switzerland (1983 )
• Hymns (2000)

Lexical entries

• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584- X.
• John Chilton: Who's Who of British Jazz. London 2004, ISBN 978-0826472342.