Wilton Gaynair

Wilton " Bogey " Gaynair ( born January 11, 1927 in Kingston, † 13 February 1995) was a Jamaican jazz musician whose main instrument was the tenor saxophone.

Gaynair was formed on the Alpha Boys School in Kingston, where Joe Harriott, Harold McNair and Don Drummond were his classmates. He played in the clubs of Kingston as a sideman in front of visitors as George Shearing and Carmen McRae before emigrating to Europe. In Germany he found most of the work and settled there. He first played in the quintet of George Maycock. Since 1964 he was a longtime member of the orchestra of Kurt Edelhagen. As a bandleader he took (on Africa Calling, among other things, with Shake Keane and Jeff Clyne ) during stays in England his first records in 1959 ( Blue Bogey ) and 1960. With the jazz-rock group Third Eye followed 1977 LP; with the case involved Ali Haurand and with Allan Botschinsky and Bob van den Broeck was born in 1982 another album under his own name, Alpharian.

Gaynair also played with Gil Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Shirley Bassey, Manhattan Transfer, Horace Parlan, Bob Brookmeyer and Mel Lewis. A stroke he suffered in September 1983 during a concert, meant that he could no longer work as a saxophonist.

His son Gregory Gaynair is active as a pianist.