Joe Newman (trumpeter)


Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.
Newman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Dwight, and Louise Newman, a musical family, having his first music lessons from David Jones. He attended Alabama State College, where he joined the college band, became its leader, and took it on tour.
In 1941 he joined Lionel Hampton for two years, before signing with Count Basie, with whom he stayed for a total of thirteen years, interrupted by short breaks and a long period spent first with saxophonist Illinois Jacquet and then drummer J. C. Heard. During his second period with Basie, which lasted for about nine years, he made a number of small-group recordings as the leader. He also played on Benny Goodman's 1962 tour of the Soviet Union.
In 1961 Newman left the Basie band and helped to found Jazz Interactions, of which he became president in 1967. His wife, Rigmor Alfredsson Newman was the Executive Director. Jazz Interactions was a charitable organization which provided an information service, brought jazz master classes into schools and colleges, and later maintained its own Jazz Interaction Orchestra.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Newman toured internationally and recorded for various major record labels. He suffered a stroke in 1991, however, which seriously disabled him, and he died of complications from it in 1992.

Discography

As leader

With Manny Albam
With Lorez Alexandria
With Gene Ammons
With the Count Basie Orchestra
With Louis Bellson and Gene Krupa
With Bob Brookmeyer
With Ray Bryant
With Benny Carter
With Buck Clayton
  • The Huckle-Buck and Robbins' Nest
  • How Hi the Fi
  • Jumpin' at the Woodside
  • All the Cats Join In
  • Jam Session #1
  • Jam Session #2
With Arnett Cobb
With Al Cohn
With Hank Crawford
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
With Bo Diddley
With Dexter Gordon
With Freddie Green
With Al Grey
With Eddie Harris
With Coleman Hawkins
With Johnny Hodges
With Milt Jackson
With Illinois Jacquet
With Eddie Jefferson
;With Budd Johnson
With J. J. Johnson
With Etta Jones
With Quincy Jones
With Irene Kral
With Yusef Lateef
With Mundell Lowe
With Junior Mance
With Herbie Mann
With Jack McDuff
With Gary McFarland
With Jimmy McGriff
With Jay McShann
With the Modern Jazz Quartet
With James Moody
With Oliver Nelson
With David "Fathead" Newman
With Buddy Rich
With Jerome Richardson
With Shirley Scott
With Jimmy Smith
  • Hoochie Coochie Man
With Dakota Staton
With Sonny Stitt
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones
  • The Matadors Meet the Bull
  • I Keep Comin' Back!
  • The Champ
With Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill
  • Spanish Rice
With Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
With Frank Wess
  • Jazz for Playboys
With Larry Willis
  • A New Kind of Soul
With Kai Winding'