Harold Ousley

Although Harold Ousley isn’t a large name within the jazz world and it has only documented sporadically like a leader, the hard bop/soul-jazz musician has backed some main jazz artists over time. Ousley (who’s mainly a tenor saxophonist but offers performed the flute as another instrument) was created in Chicago on January 23, 1929, and was raised within the Windy Town, where he started playing expertly in the past due ’40s. Support vocalists is one of is own advantages — he was using Billie Vacation at one stage, and the past due ’50s discovered him support fellow Chicago indigenous Dinah Washington. Ousley also used Gene Ammons (another Chicagoan) within the ’50s, and in the ’60s he was used like a sideman on albums by Jack port McDuff and George Benson. It had been also through the ’60s that Ousley began recording like a innovator; Tenor Sax arrived on Bethlehem in 1961, and he documented some albums for Muse within the ’70s (ten years that discovered him playing within the rings of Lionel Hampton and Count number Basie). However when the Compact disc era found its way to the past due ’80s, non-e of Ousley’s albums had been still on the net. Ousley had simply switched 71 when, in January 2000, he finally came back to the studio room as a innovator and documented Grit-Gittin’ Feelin’ for Delmark.