Leonard Gaskin

Leonard Gaskin ( born August 25, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, † January 24, 2009 ) was an American jazz bassist.

Life and work

Gaskin played at the beginning of his career, in addition to the bass and piano and worked in the Jazz Club Monroe's in Harlem with musicians like Duke Jordan, Max Roach and others, was also involved in the sessions at Minton 's Playhouse, which should contribute to the emergence of bebop. He worked with Dizzy Gillespie in 1944, then with Eddie South, Charlie Shavers, Don Byas and with Charlie Parker from 1945 to 1946 and again 1950. Moreover, he also took plates with more traditional musicians such as Ruby Braff, Bud Freeman repeatedly, Rex Stewart 1959, Cootie Williams, Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner and on. In 1953 he was involved in the recording with Miles Davis, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, published in 1956 as Miles Davis and Horns. Even with Stan Getz and JJ Johnson took Gaskin on.

Emerged addition to a Dixieland album with the orchestra of Eddie Condon 1961 two albums under his own name.

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