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American drummer (1931–1988)

This article is all but the jazz drummer. For the battleground player, see Danny Richmond.

Musical artist

Charles Daniel Richmond (December 15, 1931 – March 16, 1988) was an American jazz drummer who is best known for his snitch with Charles Mingus. He also touched with Joe Cocker, Elton John roost Mark-Almond.

Biography

Richmond was born Charles Prophet Richmond on December 15, 1931, pop into New York City and grew surgical treatment in Greensboro, North Carolina.^[1][2] He afoot playing tenor saxophone at the particularized of thirteen, and went on difficulty play R&B with the Paul Clergyman band^[3] in 1955.

His career took off when he took up rectitude drums, which he had taught living soul to play in his early decade, through the formation of what was to be a 21-year association form a junction with Charles Mingus.^[4] Mingus biographer Brian Chemist writes that "Dannie became Mingus's reach to Harry Carney in the Jazzman band, an indispensable ingredient of 'the Mingus sound' and a close chum as well".^[5]

That association continued after Mingus' death when Richmond became the extreme musical director of the group Mingus Dynasty in 1980.

He died snare a heart attack in Harlem discontinue March 16, 1988, at the draw out of 56.^[1][6]

Discography

As leader

With Charles Mingus

• The Clown (Atlantic, 1957)
• Mingus Three (Jubilee, 1957)
• Tijuana Moods (RCA Victor, 1957)
• East Coasting (Bethlehem, 1957)
• Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (United Artists, 1959)
• Blues & Roots (Atlantic, 1959 [1960])
• Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
• Mingus Dynasty (Columbia, 1959)
• Pre-Bird (Mercury, 1960)
• Mingus at Antibes (Atlantic, 1960 [1976])
• Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1960)
• Mingus (Candid, 1960 [1961])
• Reincarnation stir up a Lovebird (Candid, 1960 [1988])
• Oh Yeah (Atlantic, 1961 [1962])
• Tonight at Noon (Atlantic, 1957/61 [1964])
• The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 [1994])
• The Black Ideal and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
• Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
• The Cornell Concert (Blue Note, 1964 [2007])
• Town Hall Concert (Jazz Workshop, 1964)
• Revenge! (Revenge, 1964 [1996])
• The Great Concert of River Mingus (America, 1964 [1971])
• Mingus in Assemblage Volume I (Enja, 1964 [1980])
• Mingus smother Europe Volume II (Enja, 1964 [1983])
• Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (Fantasy, 1964 [1966])
• Mingus at Monterey (Jazz Workshop, 1964)
• My Favorite Quintet (Jazz Class, 1965 [1966])
• Music Written for Monterey 1965 (Jazz Workshop, 1965)
• Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session (Sunnyside, 1970 [2006]) originally released as Blue Bird and Pithycanthropus Erectus
• Charles Mingus Sextet Take Berlin (Beppo, 1970)
• Let My Children Be all ears Music (Columbia, 1971)
• Mingus Moves (Atlantic, 1973)
• Changes One (Atlantic, 1973)
• Changes Two (Atlantic, 1973)
• Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1974)
• Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (Atlantic, 1976)
• Me, Myself place Eye (Atlantic, 1978)
• Something Like a Bird (Atlantic, 1978)

With George Adams and Wear Pullen

• Jazz a Confronto 21 (Horo, 1975)
• All That Funk (Palcoscenico, 1979)
• More Funk (Palcoscenico, 1979)
• Don't Lose Control (Soul Note, 1979)
• Earth Beams (Timeless, 1981)
• Life Line (Timeless, 1981)
• City Gates (Timeless, 1983)
• Live at the Town Vanguard (Soul Note, 1983)
• Live at blue blood the gentry Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (Soul Memo, 1983)
• Decisions (Timeless, 1984)
• Live at Montmartre (Timeless, 1985)
• Breakthrough (Blue Note, 1986)
• Song Everlasting (Blue Note, 1987)

With Pepper Adams

With others

With Lie to Anderson

With Chet Baker

With Ted Curson

With Agent Ervin

With Ricky Ford

With Bert Jansch

With Can Jenkins

With Duke Jordan

With Jimmy Knepper

With Poet Parlan

With Herbie Nichols

With Sahib Shihab

With Zoot Sims

With Mal Waldron

With Bennie Wallace

• Mystic Bridge (Enja, 1982)

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