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Trumpeters · b. 1943

Jimmy Owens

American jazz trumpeter, composer, lecturer, and educator

Born: 9 December 1943
New York City
Country: United States
Record labels: Columbia Records
Discography: 4 albums

Biography

Jimmy Owens is a jazz musician who plays trumpet. Jimmy Owens was born on 9 December 1943 in New York City. The music is usually filed under jazz and Afrobeat. Record labels: Columbia Records. The discography here lists 4 albums, from “No Escaping It” (1970) to “The Monk Project” (2012). Honours include NEA Jazz Masters.

Jimmy Owens (born December 9, 1943) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Herbie Mann, among many others. Since 1969, he has led his own group, Jimmy Owens Plus.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

No Escaping It 1970

Jimmy Owens 1976

Peaceful Walking 2007

The Monk Project 2012

Also plays on

Albums where Jimmy Owens is credited as a sideman

1965	I’m Tryin’ to Get Home — Donald Byrd	trumpet
1965	Dig These Blues — Hank Crawford	trumpet
1966	Today! — Herbie Mann	trumpet
1966	Our Mann Flute — Herbie Mann	brass
1966	New Mann at Newport — Herbie Mann	brass
1967	The Herbie Mann String Album — Herbie Mann	trumpet, brass
1967	Impressions of the Middle East — Herbie Mann	trumpet, flugelhorn
1967	Moody and the Brass Figures — James Moody	brass
1967	Heavy!!! — Booker Ervin	brass
1968	Giblet Gravy — George Benson	flugelhorn, trumpet
1968	The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream — Joe Zawinul	trumpet
1968	The Way Ahead — Archie Shepp	trumpet
1968	Born Free — Milt Jackson	trumpet
1968	Blues: The Common Ground — Kenny Burrell	trumpet
1968	Plug Me In — Eddie Harris	trumpet
1968	I Believe to My Soul — Junior Mance	trumpet
1968	Bigger & Better — David “Fathead” Newman	trumpet
1969	Yusef Lateef’s Detroit Latitude 42° 30′ Longitude 83° — Yusef Lateef	trumpet
1969	Laws' Cause — Hubert Laws	brass
1970	Louis Armstrong and His Friends — Louis Armstrong	flugelhorn, trumpet
1970	For Losers — Archie Shepp	trumpet
1970	Soul Fountain — Clifford Jordan	brass
1970	Comment — Les McCann	trumpet
1971	Zawinul — Joe Zawinul	trumpet
1973	Spectrum — Billy Cobham	flugelhorn, trumpet
1973	Superstition — Shirley Scott	trumpet
1974	Kwanza — Archie Shepp	trumpet
1978	Inner Conflicts — Billy Cobham	flugelhorn, trumpet
1978	Innocence — Kenny Barron	trumpet
1978	Concrete Jungle — David “Fathead” Newman	trumpet