Charlie Fowlkes – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Charlie Fowlkes was a jazz musician who played saxophone. Charlie Fowlkes was born on 16 February 1916 in Brooklyn and died on 9 February 1980 in Dallas. The music is usually filed under jazz and big band music.

Charles Baker Fowlkes (February 16, 1916 – February 9, 1980) was an American baritone saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra for over 25 years.

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Albums where Charlie Fowlkes is credited as a sideman

1955	Telefunken Blues — Kenny Clarke	baritone saxophone
1955	Osie's Oasis — Osie Johnson	baritone saxophone
1958	The Atomic Mr. Basie — Count Basie Orchestra + Neal Hefti Arrangements	baritone saxophone, reeds
1958	Basie Plays Hefti — Count Basie	baritone saxophone
1959	Welcome to the Club — Nat King Cole	baritone saxophone
1959	Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings / Tony Bennett Sings — Basie / Bennett	baritone saxophone
1959	No Count Sarah — Sarah Vaughan	baritone saxophone, saxophone
1959	Sings Ballads of the Sad Cafe — Chris Connor	baritone saxophone
1960	I Gotta Right to Swing — Sammy Davis Jr.	reeds
1961	Genius + Soul = Jazz — Ray Charles	baritone saxophone
1961	First Time! The Count Meets the Duke — Duke Ellington and Count Basie	baritone saxophone
1961	I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face — Tony Bennett, Al Tornello	baritone saxophone
1961	Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan — Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan	woodwind, saxophone
1963	Ella and Basie! — Ella Fitzgerald & The Count Basie Orchestra	baritone saxophone
1964	It Might as Well Be Swing — Frank Sinatra, Count Basie And His Orchestra	reeds
1965	A Man and His Music — Frank Sinatra	reeds
1965	Basie Picks the Winners — Count Basie	saxophone
1965	Big Band Scene '65 — Count Basie & Maynard Ferguson	reeds
1965	Sammy Davis & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour — Sammy Davis Jr. & Count Basie	baritone saxophone
1966	Arthur Prysock / Count Basie — Arthur Prysock / Count Basie	reeds
1968	The Board of Directors Annual Report — Count Basie & The Mills Brothers	baritone saxophone
1972	Count Basie + Voices — Count Basie	woodwind, baritone saxophone, saxophone
1974	Part of the Search — Yusef Lateef	baritone saxophone
1976	Regeneration — Stanley Cowell	vocals, electric bass guitar
1982	A Classy Pair — Ella Fitzgerald & The Count Basie Orchestra	tenor saxophone
1989	Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra — Tony Bennett with The Count Basie Orchestra	baritone saxophone
1989	One O'Clock Jump — Count Basie	bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
1989	Basie Boogie — Count Basie	baritone saxophone, flute
1990	Tony Bennett in Concert With Count Basie — Tony Bennett	baritone saxophone
1990	Masterpieces of Sarah Vaughan — Sarah Vaughan	baritone saxophone