Ernie Farrow
Ernie Farrow ( born November 13, 1928 in Huntington, West Virginia; † July 14, 1969 in Detroit ) was an American jazz bassist, also a pianist and drummer.
Ernie Farrow grew up in Detroit and was the half-brother of Alice Coltrane, who instilled in her the Jazz. He began his musical career as a pianist, he switched to bass as the main instrument. In 1954, he worked at Terry Gibbs, then at Stan Getz, Yusef Lateef (The Centaur and the Phoenix, Eastern Sounds, 1961), Barry Harris ( Stay Right With It, 1961) and entered with its own trio in 1958 at the Detroit Jazz Club Blue Bird Inn on; in its International Jazz Quartet played Joe Henderson, Sonny Red, Hugh Lawson and Oliver Jackson. In 1960 he was a member of New York in a trio of Red Garland. In 1964, he returned to Detroit and founded a quintet and the ten-member big band Big Sound; in addition, he worked as a sideman for Jack Brokensha and Harold McKinney. In 1969 he joined again at the Bluebird Inn on its own quintet. He drowned in July 1969 in a swimming pool accident.
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- All Music
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
- Franya J. Berkman: Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
- Jazz bassist
- Jazz Pianist
- American musician
- Born in 1928
- Died in 1969
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