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Lex Humphries
Date de naissance 22.8.1936 à New York City, NY, Etats-Unis d Amérique
Date de décès 11.7.1994 à New York City, NY, Etats-Unis d Amérique
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Lex Humphries (August 22, 1936 July 11, 1994) was a jazz drummer. He worked with two musicians known for mixing world music with jazz: Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef. As a member of Sun Ra's "Arkestra" he appeared in the film Space Is the Place.[1]
Humphries played on the Giant Steps sessions with John Coltrane. The renditions he and Cedar Walton recorded with Coltrane were released as alternative tracks in 1974. He was also the first drummer in the Jazztet, appearing on their first album, Meet the Jazztet, in 1960.
Discography
As sideman
With Donald Byrd
- Fuego (1959)
- Byrd in Flight (1960)
- At the Half Note Cafe (1963)
- A New Perspective (1963)
With John Coltrane
- Alternate Takes
- The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
With Art Farmer and Benny Golson
- Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve, 1959)
- Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (Verve, 1959)
With Yusef Lateef
- The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (Riverside, 1960)
- The Centaur and the Phoenix (Riverside, 1960)
- Eastern Sounds (Prestige, 1961)
- Jazz 'Round the World (Impulse!, 1963)
With Wes Montgomery
- So Much Guitar (1961)
With Duke Pearson
- Profile (1959)
- Tender Feelin's (1959)
- Angel Eyes (1961)
- Dedication! (1961)
With Sonny Red
- Images (Jazzland, 1962)
With Sonny Stitt
- Rearin' Back (Argo, 1962)
With Sun Ra
- Space Is the Place (1973)
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack) (1993)
With McCoy Tyner
- Nights of Ballads & Blues (1963)
With Doug Watkins
- Soulnik (New Jazz, 1960)
References
Sun Ra (discography) | |
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Sun Ra | |
Members of the Arkestra | John Gilmore · Julian Priester · Pat Patrick · Victor Sproles · Marshall Allen · Ronnie Boykins · James Spaulding · Clifford Jarvis · Lex Humphries · June Tyson · Ahmed Abdullah |
Chicago Studio Albums | Jazz by Sun Ra · Super-Sonic Jazz · Sound of Joy · Visits Planet Earth · The Nubians of Plutonia · Jazz in Silhouette · Sound Sun Pleasure!! · Interstellar Low Ways · Fate In A Pleasant Mood · Holiday For Soul Dance · Angels and Demons at Play · We Travel the Space Ways |
New York Studio Albums | The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra · Bad and Beautiful · Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow · Secrets of the Sun · When Sun Comes Out · Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy · When Angels Speak of Love · Other Planes of There · The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One · The Magic City · The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two · Strange Strings · Monorails and Satellites · Atlantis |
Philadelphia Studio Albums | Space Is The Place · Space Is the Place (soundtrack) · Deep Purple · Visions · Lanquidity · Blue Delight · Purple Night |
Live Albums | Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold · Live in Egypt 1 · Nidhamu · Horizon · Live In Montreux · Sunrise in Different Dimensions |
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