Jay Cameron
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Jay Cameron (September 14, 1928 – March 20, 2001) was an American jazz reed musician who played the baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and B-flat clarinet.
Jay Cameron (September 14, 1928 – March 20, 2001) was an American jazz reed musician who played the baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and B-flat clarinet.
Career
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. He became best known for his work on baritone saxophone, which was his primary instrument for over 50 years. 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.
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