Larry Ridley

" Larry " Ridley ( born September 3, 1937 in Indianapolis as Laurence Howard Ridley ) is an American jazz bassist and music educator.

Life and work

Larry Ridley worked as a professional musician during his high school years, then studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and New York University. He completed his studies with the " Bachelor of Science" in music education, and finally his doctorate at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore from and then worked as a (now emeritus ) Professor of Music at Rutgers University. During his apprenticeship at Rutgers Ridley created a graduate program for the " Jazz Performance." He also teaches jazz bass playing at the Manhattan School of Music.

Ridley took a few sessions on under his own name; He was known primarily as a sideman in the 1960s, touring and recording musicians such as Wes Montgomery, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Dinah Washington, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Gerald Wilson, Clark Terry, Randy Weston and George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars. In the 1970s he worked with Al Cohn, in the 1980s, he was at last recordings by Chet Baker and the band Dameronia (1989 ) involved.

Ridley was Chairman of the "Jazz Panel" from the National Endowment for the Arts program ( NEA) and was for the Organization national coordinator of the "Jazz Artists in Schools" program from 1978 until 1982. Ridley works as "Jazz Artist in Residence" in the Harlem facility within the New York Public Library, the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He set up a series, whose compositions have been performed by him and his Jazz Legacy Ensemble.

Discography

As a leader

Sideman

  • Al Cohn: Play It Now! ( Xanadu, 1975)
  • Red Garland Trio: The Nearness of You ( Prestige, OJC, 1961)
  • Dexter Gordon: The Panther ( Prestige Records, 1970)
  • Stéphane Grappelli / Joe Venuti: Venupelli Blues ( Affinity, 1969)
  • Roy Haynes: Cracklin ' ( OJC, 1963)
  • Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits ( Blue Note ) Hub Cap ( Blue Note, 1961)
  • Jackie McLean; Destination ... Out! ( Blue Note, 1963)
  • Hank Mobley: Dippin ' ( Blue Note, 1965)
  • Lee Morgan: Cornbread ( Blue Note, 1965)
  • Horace Silver: The Jody Grint ( Blue Note, 1966)
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