Bill Ramsay
Bill Ramsay (also Rams Ramsay, actually William George Ramsay, born January 12, 1929 in Centralia ( Washington)) is an American jazz musician ( alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), arranger and big band leader who is active in the music scene of Seattle.
Life and work
Ramsay played in the early 1960s alto saxophone with Buddy Morrow; thereafter he worked among others with Maynard Ferguson, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman and ( shortly before Basie's death in 1984 ) in the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Ramsay toured throughout his career further in the orchestras of Les Brown, Frank Wess / Sweets Edison, Grover Mitchell, Dennis Mackrel and Frank Capp.
In the 1980s, Ramsay started his own big band, she in Seattle Parnall 's Jazz Club occurred on Sundays. In 1997 he was honored with induction into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame of the Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle. Since 1995 he also is a member of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. With Milton Edwin Kleeb ( born 1919 ), he is co-leader of a ten -piece band, the Ramsay - Kleeb Big Band, playing the repertoire of Miles Davis, Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan. In the field of jazz, he was involved 1999-2010 to 41 recording sessions, except Mentioned with Mel Tormé, Bud Shank ( The Lost Cathedral, 1991), Jay Thomas, Gene Harris, Edmonia Jarrett, Pete Christlieb and Phil Kelly.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Pete Christlieb & the Bill Ramsay / Milt Kleeb Band: Red Kelly's Heroes ( CAR, 1997)