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Urbie Green
Urbie Green at the Village Jazz Lounge in Walt Disney World (photo by Laura Kolb)
Urbie Green at the Village Jazz Lounge in Walt Disney World (photo by Laura Kolb)
Background information
Birth nameUrban Clifford Green
Born(1926-08-08)August 8, 1926
Mobile, Alabama
DiedDecember 31, 2018(2018-12-31) (aged 92)
Hellertown, Pennsylvania
GenresJazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentTrombone
LabelsVanguard, Bethlehem, Paramount, Command

Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle.[1] He played on over 250 recordings and released more than two dozen albums as a soloist. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.

Early years

Born in Mobile, Alabama, Green was taught the piano as a child by his mother. He learned jazz and popular tunes from the beginning. He started to play trombone, which both older brothers played, when he was about 12. Although he listened to trombonists Tommy Dorsey, J. C. Higginbotham, Jack Jenney, Jack Teagarden and Trummy Young, he has said he was more influenced by the styles of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His style was also influenced by the vocals of Perry Como and Louis Armstrong.

Career

When Green was fifteen his father died and he began his music career, first with the Tommy Reynolds in California, then with Bob Strong, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. At Auburn High School he was member of The Auburn Knights Orchestra. In 1947 he joined Gene Krupa's band and three years later, with his brother Jack, became a member of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd

In 1953 he moved to New York City and a year later was voted New Star trombonist in the International Critics Poll at Down Beat magazine. During the 1950s and 1960s he toured with Benny Goodman and led the Tommy Dorsey orchestra after Dorsey's death in 1956. He worked with record producer Enoch Light on the albums The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green and 21 Trombones. Green spent his later life with his second wife Kathy, a jazz singer, at their home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania.

In 1995 Green was elected into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He continued playing live at the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival every September into the last years of his life.

Green's obituary was published in the Pocono Record.[2]

Discography

As leader

  • 1953 New Faces, New Sounds (Blue Note)
  • 1954 Urbie Green Septet (Blue Note)
  • 1954 Urbie Green and His Band (Vanguard)
  • 1954 A Cool Yuletide (X)
  • 1955 Blues and Other Shades of Green (ABC-Paramount)
  • 1955 The Melodic Tones of Urbie Green (Bethlehem)
  • 1955 East Coast Jazz, Volume 6 (Bethlehem)
  • 1955 The Lyrical Language of Urbie Green(Bethlehem)
  • 1955 The Melodic Tones of Urbie Green (Vanguard)
  • 1955 Blues and Other Shades of Green (Paramount)
  • 1956 All About Urbie Green and His Big Band (ABC-Paramount)
  • 1957 Urbie Green Octet / Slidin' Swing (Jazztone)
  • 1957 Let's Face the Music and Dance (RCA)
  • 1958 Best of New Broadway Show Hits (RCA)
  • 1960 The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green (Command)
  • 1961 The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green Volume 2 (Command)
  • 1963 Urbie Green and His 6-Tet(Command)
  • 1967 21 Trombones (Project 3)
  • 1971 Green Power(Project 3)
  • 1972 Bein' Green(Project 3)
  • 1973 Old Time Modern (RCA)
  • 1973 21 Trombones Volume 2 (Project 3)
  • 1974 Urbie Green's Big Beautiful Band(Project 3)
  • 1976 The Fox(CTI)
  • 1977 Señor Blues (CTI)
  • 1978 Live at Rick's Cafe American(Flying Fish)
  • 1981 Just Friends (EJ)
  • 1995 Sea Jam Blues (Chiaroscuro)

As sideman

With Manny Albam

With Steve Allen

With Trigger Alpert

With The Count Basie Orchestra

With Ruth Brown

With Ray Bryant

With Kenny Burrell

With Ron Carter

With Buck Clayton

With Al Cohn

With Ray Conniff

With Paul Desmond

With Bill Evans

With Gil Evans

With Art Farmer

With Maynard Ferguson

With Aretha Franklin

With Dizzy Gillespie

With Johnny Griffin

With Coleman Hawkins

With Billie Holiday

With Bobby Hutcherson

With Milt Jackson

With Antonio Carlos Jobim

With J. J. Johnson

With Quincy Jones

With Irene Kral

With Mundell Lowe

With Herbie Mann

With Carmen McRae

With Gil Mellé

With Blue Mitchell

With Wes Montgomery

With Mark Murphy

  • Rah! (Riverside, 1961)

With Oliver Nelson

With Joe Newman

With Chico O'Farrill

With Glenn Osser

  • In My Merry Oldsmobile (DaJon, 1964)

With Henri Rene

With Lalo Schifrin

With Shirley Scott

With Frank Sinatra

With Jimmy Smith

With Sonny Stitt

With Stanley Turrentine

With Walter Wanderley

With Dinah Washington

With Joe Wilder

With Kai Winding

With Steve Lawrence

With Benny Goodman

References

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott. "Urbie Green". AllMusic. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  2. ^ "Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green". Pocono Record. January 5, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
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