Paul Jeffrey
Paul Jeffrey ( born April 8, 1933, New York City ) is an American tenor saxophonist and arranger of modern jazz.
Paul Jeffrey worked from the late 1950s and into the 1960s with various rhythm and blues singers like BB King, Wynonie Harris and Big Maybelle. In 1958 he played at Illinois Jacquet, during the 1960s with Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, Count Basie and Sadik Hakim. He is best known for his collaboration with the Thelonious Monk Quartet from 1970 to 1972. In 1974 he led a Monk concert at the Newport Jazz Festival. Also on the last known footage of Monk in 1975, he worked with. Jeffrey also worked as an arranger and musician for several albums by Charles Mingus, such as Cumbia & Jazz Fusion.
Jeffrey taught Jazz Studies at Rutgers University; for a long time, he is responsible as a professor at Duke University for the jazz program. He is also the founder and musical director of the North Carolina International Jazz Festival. His playing on the tenor is influenced by Sonny Rollins.