(1920-07-12)July 12, 1920 Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
May 15, 1974(1974-05-15) (aged 53) London, England
Genres
Jazz, swing, bebop
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Tenor saxophone
Years active
1938–1974
Labels
RCA Victor, Impulse!, Riviera, Black Lion
Formerly of
Sabby Lewis, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington
Musical artist
Paul Gonsalves ((1920-07-12)July 12, 1920 – (1974-05-15)May 15, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist[1] best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,"[2] a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s.[3]
^"Paul Gonsalves", Allaboutjazz.com. Archived September 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^Allmusic biography
^Larson, Thomas E. The History and Tradition of Jazz, p. 106. Google Books.
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rather than Ellington's big band, Gonsalves' performance highly impressed him: "It goes without saying that Gonsalves shows more sonic and harmonic imagination...
handing it to Gonsalves, experimenting with it in shorter performances before the Newport show, where Ellington is believed to have told Gonsalves to blow as...
played by tenor saxophonist PaulGonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves' 27-chorus marathon solo whipping...
the orchestra's appearance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, with PaulGonsalves running through 27 choruses of "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", Ellington's...
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October 14, 1957. "Where or When" — 4:02 (Richard Rodgers) Soloist is PaulGonsalves on tenor saxophone. Recorded on October 10, 1957. "Mood Indigo" —...
jazz pianist Horace Silver, Duke Ellington's saxophonist PaulGonsalves, Teófilo Chantre, Paul Pena, the Tavares brothers and singer Lura. Cape Verdean...
(His son Edward Ellington played in the band in the late 1970s. His son Paul Mercer Ellington took it over at a later date.) In the early 1980s, Ellington...
Edward G. Unknown Session Piano in the Foreground Paris Blues Featuring PaulGonsalves Midnight in Paris Studio Sessions, New York 1962 Afro-Bossa The Symphonic...
Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, PaulGonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became known with swing music during...
Edward G. Unknown Session Piano in the Foreground Paris Blues Featuring PaulGonsalves Midnight in Paris Studio Sessions, New York 1962 Afro-Bossa The Symphonic...
Edward G. Unknown Session Piano in the Foreground Paris Blues Featuring PaulGonsalves Midnight in Paris Studio Sessions, New York 1962 Afro-Bossa The Symphonic...
language and literature. He has two sisters, Carin Gonsalves, a physician in Philadelphia, and Dana Gonsalves, a commercial artist in New York City. He began...
Edward G. Unknown Session Piano in the Foreground Paris Blues Featuring PaulGonsalves Midnight in Paris Studio Sessions, New York 1962 Afro-Bossa The Symphonic...
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