Junior Collins
American jazz musician
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Birth name | Addison Collins Jr. |
Born | April 17, 1927 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. |
Died | March 14, 1976 (aged 49) |
Genres | Jazz |
Instruments | French horn |
Musical artist
Addison Collins Jr. (April 17, 1927 – March 14, 1976) was an American French horn player.
Background
Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Collins was a member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Force band,[1] and Claude Thornhill's orchestra.[2] He later played with Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and the nonet featured on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool.[3]
References
- ^ Grudens, Richard Chattanooga Choo Choo: The Life and Times of the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Celebrity Profiles Publishing, 2004 ISBN 9781575792774
- ^ Kirchner, Bill The Oxford Companion to Jazz Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-518359-7
- ^ "The Birth of the Cool" Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine by Jeff Sultanof (Jazz.com Archived 2015-10-21 at the Wayback Machine)
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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
- Discography
- Timeline of members, 1938–1942
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- "American Patrol"
- "Anvil Chorus"
- "At Last"
- "Blueberry Hill"
- "Caribbean Clipper"
- "Crosstown"
- "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)"
- "Here We Go Again"
- "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem"
- "I Know Why (And So Do You)"
- "It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake like That)"
- "Jukebox Saturday Night"
- "Little Brown Jug"
- "Moonlight Becomes You"
- "Moonlight Serenade"
- "The Nearness of You"
- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"
- "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
- "Perfidia"
- "St. Louis Blues"
- "Serenade in Blue"
- "Skylark"
- "Sunrise Serenade"
- "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover"
- Chicago Jazz Classics (1943)
- Up Swing (1944)
- Smoke Rings (1944)
- Glenn Miller (1945)
- Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II (1947)
- Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954)
- The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
- The Glenn Miller Carnegie Hall Concert (1958)
- Pure Gold (1975)
- In the Digital Mood (1983)
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- List of songs written by Glenn Miller
- Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
- The Glenn Miller Story (Decca) (1954)
- Glenn Miller Orchestra (1956–present)
- Glenn Miller Time
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