Kim Richmond

Kim Richmond ( born July 24, 1940 in Champaign, Illinois ) is an American jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and composer.

Richmond played in his youth, piano, clarinet and saxophone; Since 1956 he worked as a professional musician. He studied in the early 1960s at the University of Illinois, where he worked on Eric Dolphy's Big Band project in March 1963, released on Blue Note as The Illinois Concert. He then played in the Air Force Big Band, Airmen of note, when he from 1963 to 1967 in Washington DC his military service ableistete. He then moved to California and played in the bands of Stan Kenton (1967 ), Clare Fischer ( 1968), Louie Bellson ( 1969-72 ), Lalo Schifrin (1979 ), Bob Florence ( 1979), Les Brown ( 1989), Bill Holman (1990) and Vinny Golia (1991). Since the 1960s Richmond has also worked as an arranger, so for Schifrin, Buddy Rich and Ernie Watts. Richmond had 1963 Eric Dolphy concert with the big band of the University of Illinois ( released on the Blue Note album The Illinois Concert). Since the late 1980s, Richmond took a number of albums under his own name; In 1992, the big band album Passages. With the Concert Jazz Orchestra, which he founded, he led in Southern California at his own compositions and otherwise works as a session musician, with Bob Florence and Joey Sellars, as an arranger and artistic director at the studios.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Looking in Looking Out ( Nine Winds, 1988)
• Passages ( Sea Breeze Records, 1992)
• Range ( Nine Winds, 1994)
• Crossweave ( Origin, 2004)

Swell

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9

• Jazz saxophonist
• Composer (Jazz)
• Arranger
• Big Band Leader
• American musician
• Born in 1940
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