Harold Ousley
{{short description|American jazz musician}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Harold Ousley
| birth_name = Harold Lomax Ousley
| birth_date = January 23, 1929
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = August 13, 2015 (aged 86)
| death_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| genre = Jazz
| instruments = Flute, tenor saxophone
}}
Harold Lomax Ousley (January 23, 1929 – August 13, 2015) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p7271/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Harold Ousley|author=Alex Henderson |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}{{cite web|title=Jazz Musician Harold Ousley Passes Away|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Jazz-Musician-Harold-Ousley-Passes-Away-20150814|website=BWW MusicWorld.com|accessdate=10 September 2016|date=14 August 2015}}
Background
Born in Chicago, Ousley began playing in the late-1940s and 1950s. He accompanied Billie Holiday and recorded with Dinah Washington. He played as a sideman with Gene Ammons in the 1950s and with Jack McDuff and George Benson in the 1960s. He released his first record as a leader in 1961. In the 1970s, he played with Lionel Hampton and Count Basie in addition to releasing further material as a leader. After 1977, he did not release another album under his own name until Grit-Grittin' Feelin' (2000). Ousley died on August 13, 2015, in Brooklyn.
Discography
=As leader=
- Tenor Sax (Bethlehem, 1961)
- The Kid! (Cobblestone, 1972)
- The People's Groove (Muse, 1977)
- Sweet Double Hipness (Muse, 1980)
- That's When We Thought of Love (J's Way Records, 1986)
- Grit-Grittin' Feelin' (Delmark, 2000)
=As sideman=
With Jack McDuff
- Walk On By (Prestige, 1966)
- Hallelujah Time! (Prestige, 1963–1966 [1967])
- Soul Circle (Prestige, 1964–1966 [1968])
- I Got a Woman (Prestige, 1964–1966 [1969])
- Steppin' Out (Prestige, 1961–1966 [1969])
References
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External links
- [http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/harold-ousley/476030 Harold Ousley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019215132/http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/harold-ousley/476030 |date=2012-10-19 }} at Artistdirect.com
- [http://soul-sides.com/2004/11/youve-got-it-harold-ousley-forget-it.html The Kid album review at Soul-sides.com]
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Category:Jazz musicians from Chicago
Category:American jazz tenor saxophonists
Category:American male saxophonists
Category:American jazz flautists
Category:Jazz-blues saxophonists
Category:Hard bop saxophonists
Category:Latin jazz saxophonists
Category:Soul-jazz saxophonists
Category:Cobblestone Records artists
Category:American male jazz musicians