Dick Hafer

Dick oats (actually John Richard oats; * May 29, 1927 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, † December 15, 2012 in La Costa Glen, California ) was an American tenor saxophonist of modern jazz.

Life and work

At the beginning of his musical career playing with Charlie Barnet in 1949 Dick Oats, then with Claude Thornhill in 1949-50, again in 1950-51 and Barnet in the Woody Herman band from late 1951 to 1955. With it, he toured in the spring of 1954 through Europe. After oats worked as a freelancer in New York City. There also came to work with Tex Beneke 1955, and Bobby Hackett 1957-58. He has played with Ruby Braff, Dick Collins, Urbie Green, Nat Pierce and Johnny Hartman a disk. He also worked as a musician in Broadwayhows.

In the 1990s, he put under his own name prior two albums, In a Sentimental Mood and Lester Young's tribute Prez impressions. The best-known recordings in which participated oats, are the albums The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by Charles Mingus, 1963 at Impulse! Records published.

Lexical entry

  • Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
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