Happy Birthday George Coleman. 84.

[Hardbopjazz]

One of the greats of all time on the tenor.

 

[Justin V]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Coleman!  

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

!!!

[EKE BBB]

Happy b-day, Mr. Coleman!

(embarrassingly I was not aware that he is still with us!) 

[Shrdlu]

An excellent tenor.

It was said that there was pressure to get him out of Miles's group and get Wayne Shorter in, but he played magnificently on the "My Funny Valentine" and "Four And More" albums (both from a live engagement), and Herbie Hancock picked him for the "Maiden Voyage" date, when, presumably, he could have had Wayne; George plays wonderfully on that, too.

[Gheorghe]

wonderful musician.

Sure as most of you I first heard him on the Miles album "Antibes 1963" and was lucky to see him live early in 1979 with his then working unit with Hilton Ruiz, Ray Drummond and Billy Higgins. This was shortly after he had recorded his fantastic album "Amsterdam at Dark".

A remarkable later recording of him is "4 Generations of Miles" with Mike Stern, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb I think from 2002.

Edited March 11, 2019 by Gheorghe

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Happy birthday George.

I have seen him play many times and loved it. I wish his semi-retirement included a short trip to Boston every now & then but alas, he limits himself to the Smoke Jazz Club these days.

I really should head down there the next time he books a gig.

[Roundsound]

He is on a Joey D concert CD.   He played fantastic.   I also caught him a few years ago with Eric Alexander's group (Harold Mabern etc) and it was very exciting to see him up close.

[Scott Dolan]

LOVE me some George! 

His stint with Miles is some of the most sneaky great tenor I’ve ever heard.