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Joe Temperley
Joe Temperley (saxophones) was born in Scotland and first achieved prominence in the United Kingdom as a member of Humphrey Lyttelton's band from 1958 to 1965. He toured the United States with the band in 1959. In 1965, he came to New York City, where he performed and/or recorded with Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, the Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, and the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and Clark Terry, among many others. In October 1974 he toured and recorded with The Duke Ellington Orchestra as a replacement for Harry Carney. Mr. Temperley played in the Broadway show Sophisticated Ladies in the 1980s, and his film soundtrack credits include The Cotton Club, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, When Harry Met Sally, and Tune In Tomorrow, composed by Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Temperley is a mentor and a cofounder of the FIFE Youth Jazz Orchestra program in Scotland, which now enrolls 70 young musicians ages 7 to 17 playing in three full-size bands. Mr. Temperley has released several albums as a leader, including Nightingale (1991), Sunbeam and Thundercloud with pianist Dave McKenna (1996), With Every Breath (1998), and Double Duke (1999) with several fellow LCJO Members. He released two new recordings in September 2001. He is an original member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and serves on the faculty of the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, which opened in fall 2001. Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1992.
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Joe Temperley (Naxos Jazz: Double Duke
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by C. Michael Bailey
Happy Birthday, Maestro Ellington!. A perfect time for Joe Temperley’s Naxos Jazz debut: The 100th birthday of the grand maestro himself, Edward Kennedy Ellington. Temperley was an important figure in the late bands of the Duke having replaced the venerable Harry Carney after his 42 years (the longest of any single Duke band member) 1974. Temperley added the soprano sax to the arsenal of baritone and bass clarinet, two of the important underpinnings to the super Ellington sound. Double Duke ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Joe Temperley, who died in May at age 86, was a Scottish baritone saxophonist and occasional soprano saxophonist. As a teen, he played in Scotland's Tommy Sampson Orchestra and joined Humphrey Lyttelton's band in London in 1957. In 1965, he left the U.K. for the States, playing in the bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and others in the 1960s and '70s. In 1974, he subbed for Harry Carney in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which is saying ...
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Joe Temperley, 1929-2016
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Joe Temperley is dead at 86. In recent years, he was a mainstay of the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra. In the 1970s following the death of Harry Carney, his glorious baritone saxophone sound anchored the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Temperley was born on September 20, 1929 in Crowdenbeath, Scotland and moved to New York in 1965. Also a master of the bass clarinet, he worked with the big bands of Woody Herman, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, Clark Terry, Duke Pearson, Charles ...
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Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley at Knickerbocker (NYC) August 20/21
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Daryl Sherman
Pianist/vocalist Daryl Sherman and Joe Temperley on baritone and soprano sax reprise their special duo format on August 20, 21 (9:45pmר am) at Knickerbocker, 33 University Place and 9th St. 212-228-8490. Sherman's light bright singing (reminicent of Mildred Bailey and Blossom Dearie) along with her rollicky swinging piano make a perfect foil for Temperley, who continues to anchor the sax section of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. It takes a brave vocalist to share the spotlight with a baritone saxophonist as ...
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