# Jimmy Owens has emphasized in both his performances a deep understanding of the blues as well as emotional projection on ballads: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/12/08/jimmy-owens-has-emphasized-in-both-his-performances-a-deep-understanding-of-the-blues-as-well-as-emotional-projection-on-ballads-video/
- Published: 2018-12-08T19:45:20+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**09.12. – Happy Birthday !!! Legendary Jazz artist JIMMY OWENS (trumpet, flugelhorn)
has over forty-five years of experience as a Jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger,
lecturer, and music education consultant.**

His experience covers a wide range of international musical achievement, which includes
extensive work as a studio musician, soloist, bandleader, and composer of orchestral
compositions, movie scores, and ballets. 

Jimmy is one of the few trumpeters of his generation who played as a sideman with
such extraordinary Jazz leaders as Lionel Hampton, Hank Crawford, Charles Mingus,
Max Roach, Duke Ellington, Billy Taylor, and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, among
others. As a result, his musical and personal recollections are unique. He can share
personal recollections of being a sideman in some of the most exciting bands in 
the history of Jazz music. His anecdotes are priceless: playing with Cootie Williams,
Sweets Edison, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie in an historic concert at Yale where
Eubie Blake and Paul Robeson were in the audience; sitting in with Miles Davis at
the age of fifteen, and many others.

Throughout his long career, Jimmy has consistently emphasized in both his performances
and recordings a deep understanding of the blues as well as beautiful and articulate
emotional projection on ballads. As a reviewer stated in All About Jazz regarding
Jimmy’s performance on One More: The Summary – Music of Thad Jones, Vol 2 (2006),
an all-star recording on which Jimmy appeared – “Jimmy Owens … proves that he’s 
better than ever, whether employing a breathy, vocal quality (Little Pixie), a smooth
flugelhorn sound (Three in One), or brilliant and elliptical Jones-like melodic 
ideas (Rejoice).” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScGnmuSIhU

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