George Braith

George Braith (* as George Braithwaite on June 27, 1939 in New York City ) is an American jazz saxophonist ( alto, tenor and soprano saxophone and Stritch ) Soul Jazz.

George Braith, who followed Roland Kirk's idea of ​​playing two horns simultaneously, gained brief attention in the jazz scene, as he took in the early 1960s three albums for the jazz label Blue Note Records, Two Souls in One, Soul Stream, and Extension, which now on two CDs available ( "The Complete Blue Note Sessions "). Participating HEIs included the guitarist Grant Green, organist Billy Gardner and drummer Hugh Walker. Later Braits still worked with John Patton, otherwise he worked as a manager of a restaurant and creativity center Musart and then, after a stay in Europe, a jazz club. In the later years he made his way in New York in part as a street musician by.

Braith has its own instruments, such as a coupling of a soprano and alto saxophone, invented. Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe Braiths records work as a dedicated footnote in the Blue Note discography.