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PAUL E. WEST. Musician, Bassist, Conductor, Administrator, Educator. E-mail. The official Paul E. West Web site.
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Paul E. West - Jazz Bassist - Conducter. BIOGRAPHY. Musician, Bassist, Conductor, Administrator, Educator. Paul E. West born January 28, 1934 NYC. EDUCATION. High School of Music and Art NYC. Wagner College Staten Island; BA Music. Studied violin with Albert Polnarioff (father of Paul Nero) from age 6 to age 18.
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- The Standards, Revisited
- Growing Up in Harlem
- Lee Morgan’s Murder
- Finally A Wagner Graduate
West has accompanied a pantheon of jazz luminaries. There were the singers: Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Betty Carter, and Abbey Lincoln. There were the pianists: Randy Weston, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, and Erroll Garner. And there were the band leaders: Lester Young, Milt Jackson, and Max Roach. Jazz singers in particular wa...
This fall, West has been in demand on bandstands around the New York metropolitan area, riding the wave following the release of the Mike Longo Trio’s album, Only Time Will Tell. Longo and West go back to the early 1960s, when they played at the Playboy Club on East 59th Street. In September, Longo and West performed as a duo at Mezzrow in Greenwic...
West’s appreciation of music started young — both at home and at the church his father led in Harlem. His father, the Reverend Paul West ’25, who was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, spent much of his youth in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. He moved to New York, and later enrolled at Wagner, where he studied religion. After the senior We...
During his stint at Jazzmobile, West reconnected with Lee Morgan, the youthful trumpeter. It wasn’t pretty at first, when he came across Morgan in an alleyway, strung out on heroin. But Morgan soon found love, with a woman named Helen Moore, and recovered. West hired him for teaching and performance gigs with Jazzmobile as Morgan once again found h...
After retiring from Henry Street in 2000, West again focused on his Wagner diploma. Over the years, he’d cobbled together credits from City College of New York, Pace University, and Orange County Community College, with the lion’s share of his credits from Wagner. What he lacked was enough credits in his major — music education. “I was possessed wi...
Profile: American jazz double bass player, born 28 January 1934 in New York City, USA. Sites: paulwestjazz.com. Aliases: Paul Robbins And The Hit Boys, Peter West (2) In Groups: Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Morgan=Kelly Septet, Roland Hanna Trio, The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band, The Mike Longo Trio. Variations:
Paul West, bass. Album: Whisper Sweet. 5:15. Last played Monday, October 07 2019 at 01:41 AM. Richard Rodgers. Where Or When. Lorenz Hart.
May 19, 2022 · This show will stream live on the Museum and Jazz Foundation Facebook page and the Museum Youtube. For more info, click here». A star bassist ever since his stint with the 1950s Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Paul West today brings a formidable trio of living jazz legends to the museum stage.
