Juini Booth

June Booth ( also Jooney, Jiunie or Joonie Booth, * February 12, 1948 in Buffalo (New York ) and Arthur Edward Booth) is an American jazz musician ( piano and cello Bass. ).

Booth had piano lessons at age eight and attended 1962/63 municipal music school in Buffalo. His music career began in the bands of Chuck Mangione 1964/65 and Art Blakey 1966 /67. He participated also on the ESP-Disk album Music from the Spheres of Sonny Simmons / Barbara Donald Quintet; after that he worked as a freelance musician and Others with Donald Byrd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Kenny Dorham, Tal Farlow, Shelly Manne, Thelonious Monk and Albert Ayler. In the 1970s he played in the groups of Gary Bartz (Urban Bush Music), Hamiet Bluiett, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Chico Freeman and Charles Tolliver. In 1984, he played in a trio of Steve Grossman; In the late 1980s he was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra ( Second Star to the Right ), 1999 worked at Charles Gayle's album Ancient of Days with.