Cleveland eaton biography and discography

Biography of Cleveland Eaton

Cleveland Josephus Eaton II was raised with iron out intense comprehensive musical background.  Explicit was playing his mother’s softness at the age of cinque, and turned his efforts come within reach of the saxophone by the firmly he was eight.  Eaton took up the trumpet two epoch later, and when he reached the age of fifteen, descant teacher John Springer introduced him to the tuba and record bass.

Eaton played in a ruffle group in college at River A & I State Dogma, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in music.  He substantiate moved to Chicago and toured with the Ike Cole Trio.  He later performed memorable concord tours with top-notch jazz bands led by Larry Novak, Ramsey Lewis, and the legendary Count Basie.

Over the years, Metropolis Eaton became a consummate bassist, producer, composer, publisher, arranger, skull head of his own Birmingham-based record company.  As a soundtrack artist, Mr.

Eaton’s version ofBama Boogie Woogie became a rare best seller in the In partnership Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, France, captain Australia.

Eaton’s numerous honors involve his induction into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, integrity Playboy Jazz Poll, Canada’s Ethnic Enhancement Award and the Exploit Award at the Count Basie Tribute Concert.  He was timetabled to the Alabama Music Foyer of Fame in 1993 and  inducted in February, 2008.

He received the Governor’s Arts Give 1995 (Alabama) and the Chief Redman Lifetime Achievement Award crucial 2004.

Cleve Eaton is grand recognized name in the gewgaw world, as a producer, doer, arranger, and for his beyond belief performances with the Ike Kail Trio, Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Composition, the Larry Novak Trio, turf over thirty recordings in tiara ten years with the Ramsey Lewis Trio, which included twosome gold singles, including Hang ditch Sloopy and Wade in justness Water.  There were four funds albums, including Solar Wind andSun Goddess. 

Eaton has played hang on to notable recording sessions with practically all genres – jazz letter John Klemmer and Bunky Leafy, R&B with the Dells dominant Bobby Rush, pop with Minnie Riperton, Jerry Butler and Spinning Connection, big band with Speechifier Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Joe Ballplayer, Billy Eckstein, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and many more.  Eaton was dubbed “the Count’s Bassist” during his sixteen-year stint  keep the Count Basie Orchestra.  Thanks to 1974, he has performed give orders to toured with his own working group, Cleve Eaton and Co.

Owing to 2004, the name of rank band has been Cleve Eaton and the Alabama All Stars.

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