George Coleman
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The George Coleman Quintet, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | George Edward Coleman |
| Born |
March 8, 1935 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, hard bop, post-bop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1950s–present |
| Labels | Evidence, Telarc, Theresa, Smoke Sessions |
| Associated acts | Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, Max Roach, Slide Hampton, Lionel Hampton, Ahmad Jamal, Joey DeFrancesco, Chet Baker |
| Website | www |
George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master for 2015.
Coleman was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was taught how to play the alto saxophone in his teens by his older brother Lucian Adams, inspired (like many jazz musicians of his generation) by Charlie Parker. Among his schoolmates were Harold Mabern, Booker Little, Frank Strozier, Hank Crawford, and Charles Lloyd. After working with Ray Charles, Coleman started working with B.B. King in 1953, at which point he switched to tenor saxophone. In 1956 Coleman moved to Chicago, along with Booker Little, where he worked with Gene Ammons and Johnny Griffin before joining Max Roach's quintet 1958–1959. Coleman recorded with organist Jimmy Smith's Houseparty (1957), with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, and Donald Bailey. Moving to New York City with Max Roach in that year, he went on to play with Slide Hampton (1959–1962), Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, and Wild Bill Davis (1962), before joining Miles Davis's quintet in 1963–1964.
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