Al Aarons
Albert Aarons was an American jazz trumpeter.Biography
Aarons was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit. He began to gain attention as a trumpet player in 1956, and started working with jazz artist Yusef Lateef and pianist Barry Harris in the latter part of that decade in Detroit. After a period playing with jazz organist Wild Bill Davis, he played trumpet in the Count Basie Orchestra from 1961 to 1969.
In the 1970s, Aarons worked as a sideman for singers Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, and saxophonist Gene Ammons. He was also a contributor to jazz fusion, playing on School Days with Stanley Clarke, and appears with Snooky Young on the classic 1976 album Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live.Discography
As leader
- Al Aarons & the L.A. Jazz Caravan
As sideman
With Gene Ammons
With Count Basie
With Brass Fever
With Kenny Burrell
With Frank Capp
With Buddy Collette
With Ella Fitzgerald
With Benny Golson
With Eddie Harris
- How Can You Live Like That?
With Gene Harris
With Milt Jackson
With Carmen McRae
With Zoot Sims with the Benny Carter Orchestra
- Passion Flower: Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington - Al Aarons, Oscar Brashear, Bobby Bryant, Earl Gardner, J.J. Johnson, Grover Mitchell, Benny Powell, Britt Woodman, Marshal Royal, Frank Wess, Buddy Collette, Plas Johnson, Jimmy Rowles, John Collins, Andy Simpkins, Grady Tate, Benny Carter Hollywood, CA, August 14, 1979
With Frank Wess
With Gerald Wilson
