Jimmy Rowles
Jimmy Rowles was born in Spokane, Washington, United States on August 19th, 1918 and is the Pianist. At the age of 77, Jimmy Rowles biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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James George Hunter (August 19, 1918 – May 28, 1996), also known as Jimmy Rowles, was an American jazz pianist, singer, and composer.
He experimented with swing and hip jazz as a bandleader and accompanist.
Music career
Rowles was born in Spokane, Washington, United States, and attended Gonzaga University in that city. He joined Lester Young's company in 1942, moving to Los Angeles. He has performed with Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Tony Bennett, and others as a studio musician.
Female singers lauded Rowles as an accompanist. Sarah Vaughan appeared on Sarah Vaughan's with the Jimmy Rowles Quintet in 1972, and she accompanied Carmen McRae on her 1972 live album The Great American Songbook. Rowles was described by McRae as "the guy every girl singer in her right mind would like to work with."
He starred alongside Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee in the 1950s and 1960s. Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist surpassed him in the 1980s. He appeared at the Mocambo nightclub in Hollywood in late 1956 and then went on to perform with Fitzgerald in the 1960s before joining Ella in 1981 for almost three years. Rowles appeared in 1982 on Fitzgerald's final collaboration with Nelson Riddle, The Best Is Yet to Come. Written with Johnny Mercer, his song "Baby, Don't You Quit Now" was released in 1989 on her last album All That Jazz.
Rowles met Diana Krall in Los Angeles in 1983, just after she graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He aided her in her role as a singer and encouraged her to include singing to her repertoire. He accompanied jazz singer Jeri Brown on A Timeless Place in 1994, the first album on record containing only his own compositions.
Rowles' best known work is "The Peacocks," it was released on Stan Getz' album in 1975 and later by Gary Foster, John McLaughlin, Esperanza Spalding, Bill Evans, and other artists. Norma Winstone, a singer, wrote lyrics for the project and recorded it under the name "A Timeless Place." In Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnight, "The Peacocks" is performed.
Rowles' 1958 composition "502 Blues" received a lot of attention from Wayne Shorter's 1966 recording. "502 Blues" was later included in the Real Book, a series of jazz sheet music widely used by students and professionals when playing jam sessions and casual gigs.
Rowles' piano work was often on the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–1971).
In Los Angeles, the 14th of September was declared "Jimmie Rowles Day" on September 14th.
Rowles died in 1996 of heart arrest in Burbank, California, at the age of 77. Stacy was born on September 11, 1955, 1950 – October 30, 2009, and flugelhornist. Gary Lee's son Gary performed guitar with Eric Burdon and Arthur Lee's band Love.