Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld had a long and varied career, changing his tenor sound gradually with the times and adapting to many different musical situations. He moved from Canada to the U.S. in the late '20s and, although originally an altoist, he switched to tenor after hearing Coleman Hawkins. While with Bunny Berigan during 1937-1938, Auld sounded like a dead ringer for Charlie Barnet. After spending a year with Artie Shaw in 1939 (including leading the band briefly after Shaw ran away to Mexico), Auld sounded much closer to Lester Young when he joined Benny Goodman. With B.G., Auld was a major asset, jamming with a version of Goodman's Sextet that also included Cootie Williams and Charlie Christian. He was back with Shaw in 1942, and then led his own big band (1943-1946), an excellent transitional unit between swing and bop that at various times included such young modernists as Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, and Freddie Webster; Sarah Vaughan also guested on a couple of his recordings. After the band's breakup, Auld led some smaller groups that tended to be bop-oriented. He was with Count Basie's octet in 1950 and then freelanced for the remainder of his career, maintaining a lower profile but traveling frequently overseas and not losing his enthusiasm for jazz. Some may remember that, in 1977, he had a small acting role as a bandleader and played Robert De Niro's tenor solos in the otherwise forgettable Liza Minelli movie New York, New York.
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Discography
5 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Saxophone Masters 1951-1962
Lounge - Released by Stardust Records on May 1, 2013
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Swing Big Bands, Georgie Auld
Jazz - Released by SendDigital on Dec 1, 2016
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Georgie Auld Plays For Melancholy Babies
Jazz - Released by Blue Pie Records USA on Jan 1, 1959
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Jazz Masters, Vol. 10
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Blue Pie Records USA on Dec 3, 2020
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Let's Jump
Jazz - Released by nagel heyer records on Oct 5, 2018
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