Gil Coggins

Gil Coggins (* as Alvin Gibert Coggins on 23 August 1928 in New York City; † 15 February 2004 in New York City ) was an American jazz pianist of the hard bop. Gil Coggins is the main reason to be remembered, because he starred in the short span of his musical work with three of the most important musicians of modern jazz with Miles Davis 1952/53, with John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins in 1957.

Life

1952 Gil Coggins looked on Miles Davis ' first session for the jazz label Blue Note Records (published as Young Man With A Horn ) and 1953 at the second session ( Miles Davis, Vol 2). At the same time also emerged recordings with Lester Young. He then spent several years not musically active, but then looked at the recording session of Ray Draper Quartet with John Coltrane for the jazz label Prestige Records with. He also took up with Jackie McLean, 1957 with the Quartet by Sonny Rollins. Coggins had few opportunities einzuspielen own plates ( Gil 's Mood, 1990 Interplay; Better Late Than Never, 2007, Smalls ) and was mainly employed in the club scene. Up to an accident in 2003 from which he never recovered, he played in the last few years every Saturday night in the " C-Note " in the East Village.

The Coltrane biographer and Filtgen Except Bauer write to Gil Coggins ' style: on the Coltrane / Draper LP is " for the pianist Gil Coggins very little - for the more lasting - the opportunity to set the scene. He is unfortunately often underestimated hard bop talent. In his interpretation he prefers, single- note' - play with the extensive vocabulary of hard swinging pianist. "

Discography (excerpt)

  • Gil Coggins: Gil's mood ( Interplay 9003, 1990)
  • Gil Coggins: Better late than never ( unknown)
  • Gil Coggins: unissued Blue Note with Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clarke ( accor ding to Michael Cuscuna the tapes are no longer in the Blue Note files)
  • Miles Davis: Young Man With A Horn ( Blue Note -10 -inch LP 5013, 1952) and Miles Davis, Vol 2 ( Blue Note -10 -inch LP 5022, 1953)
  • The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane (New Jazz, 1957)
  • Jackie McLean: Makin ' The Changes (New Jazz, 1957)
  • Sonny Rollins Quintet / Thad Jones: Sonny Rollins Plays, 1956/57 (Period Records, 1958)

Swell

  • Gerd Filtgen, Michael Bauer Apart: John Coltrane - His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Schaftlach 1989
  • Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988
  • Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
  • Obituary: Pianist with Coltrane, Miles, McLean jazzhouse.org

Comments

  • Jazz Pianist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 2004
  • Man
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