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Grover Mitchell

Grover Curry Mitchell (March 17, 1930 in Whatley, Alabama – August 6, 2003 in New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader.

Biography

He was born in Alabama, but his parents moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was eight. It was in Pittsburgh that he became interested in jazz.

He began on trombone in his teens after initially desiring to learn trumpet. However, his arms were considered long, so the school trained him in trombone as they needed trombonists more than trumpeters. In adulthood he worked with the United States Marines band, Lionel Hampton, and Duke Ellington. He became best known for his association with Count Basie, which began in 1962. He was lead trombone for Basie by 1970, but after that he took time off. He founded his own band in 1978 which he continued to lead even after returning to Basie's Orchestra in 1980. From 1995 until his death, he served as director of the Count Basie Orchestra. In that capacity he won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album twice.

Mitchell was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 2008.

Discography

As leader

Live at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

Count Plays Duke performed by the Count Basie Orchestra

As sideman

With Gene Ammons

Free Again (Prestige, 1971)

With Count Basie

On My Way & Shoutin' Again! (Verve, 1962)

This Time by Basie! (Reprise, 1963)

More Hits of the 50's and 60's (Verve, 1963)

Pop Goes the Basie (Reprise, 1965)

Basie Meets Bond (United Artists, 1966)

Live at the Sands (Before Frank) (Reprise, 1966 [1998])

Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, 1966) with Frank Sinatra

Basie's Beatle Bag (Verve, 1966)

Broadway Basie's...Way (Command, 1966)

Hollywood...Basie's Way (Command, 1967)

Basie's Beat (Verve, 1967)

Basie's in the Bag (Brunswick, 1967)

The Happiest Millionaire (Coliseum, 1967)

Half a Sixpence (Dot, 1967)

The Board of Directors (Dot, 1967) with The Mills Brothers

Manufacturers of Soul (Brunswick, 1968) with Jackie Wilson

The Board of Directors Annual Report (Dot, 1968) with The Mills Brothers

Basie Straight Ahead (Dot, 1968)

How About This (Paramount, 1968) with Kay Starr

Standing Ovation (Dot, 1969)

Basic Basie (MPS, 1969)

Basie on the Beatles (Happy Tiger, 1969)

High Voltage (MPS, 1970)

Me and You (Pablo, 1983)

With Eddie Harris

How Can You Live Like That? (Atlantic, 1976)

With Oliver Nelson

Skull Session (Flying Dutchman, 1975)

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