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Jay Cameron

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Jay Cameron
Born(1928-09-14)September 14, 1928
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 20, 2001(2001-03-20) (aged 72)
San Diego, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentsBass clarinet, baritone saxophone, clarinet

Jay Cameron (September 14, 1928 – March 20, 2001) was an American jazz reed musician who played the bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, and B-flat clarinet.

Career

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Cameron began as an alto saxophonist but later recorded with bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, and B-flat clarinet. His career began in the early 1940s in Hollywood with Isaac M. Carpenter's band, with whom he played until 1947.[1]

Cameron moved to Europe near the end of the decade and played with Rex Stewart, Bill Coleman, Roy Haynes and Henri Renaud in France and Italy; in the early 1950s Cameron gigged around Belgium, Germany, and Scandinavia. In 1955 he played steadily in Paris with a band that included Bobby Jaspar, Barney Wilen and Jean-Louis Chautemps. He returned to the United States in 1956, playing in the bands of Woody Herman (1956) and Slide Hampton (1960). He also worked with Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson (1957–58), Freddie Hubbard (1958), Candido Camero, Bill Barron, André Hodeir, Hal McKusick, and Les and Larry Elgart. He led the International Sax Band and the Third Herdsmen. In the late-1960s, Cameron toured with Paul Winter.

Personal life

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Cameron was born in New York City and died in San Diego.[2]

Discography

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As leader

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  • Jay Cameron's International Sax-Band (Swing, 1955)

As sideman

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With Slide Hampton

With others

Further reading

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  • Jay Cameron at Allmusic
  • Bill Moody, The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad. Includes a chapter on Cameron.

References

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  1. ^ "Jay Cameron: Sax Band, 1955 - JazzWax". www.jazzwax.com. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  2. ^ Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8.