Jimmy Ford

This name may lead in lots of stylistic directions in the music business, jazz discographers alone acknowledging the existence of at least four differing people named Jimmy Ford and/or Jim Ford and James Ford. The locale for trumpeter Jimmy Ford was Chicago, the Windy City’s name also a practical dual, like trumpet and flügelhorn, as it pertains time to go over Ford’s put in place hometown musical background. First, however, it’s important to mention that isn’t the trumpeter called Jimmy Ford, also acknowledged quite frequently as Adam Ford, who has in electrical blues bands around the Houston music picture. The Chicago Jimmy Ford was a bandleader and a brass section member. Actually, his Jimmy Ford & the Professionals, later evolving in to the Mob, was something of the model with regards to what was occasionally known as a “golf club band.” From the mid-’60s, a number of the players who eventually type the hit smooth rock clothing Chicago had been toiling as sidemen for Ford. Chicago’s Robert Lamm explains Jimmy Ford & the Professionals among the “knockout golf club bands which usually experienced three horns, a tempo section, and a man down front performing…They worked university times, they worked teenager clubs, big night clubs. That’s what we should wanted to perform.” “We” included amazing guitarist Terry Kath, ultimately to blossom as Chicago’s greatest free-form soloist. Ford’s band worked well for quite some time as the backup device on Dick Clark’s Caravan of Celebrities. To be able to conclude on an identical note of misunderstandings to the start, Ford’s later clothing the Mob shouldn’t be puzzled with R&B saxophonist Arnett Cobb’s back-up combo from the same name, which occasionally presented the trumpeter Wayne Ford, previously referred to as to who he’s and who he’s not.