Dannie Richmond


Charles Daniel Richmond was an American jazz drummer who is best known for his work with Charles Mingus. He also worked with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond.

Life and career

Richmond was born Charles Daniel Richmond on December 15, 1931, in New York City and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He started playing tenor saxophone at the age of thirteen, and went on to play R&B with the Paul Williams band in 1955.
His career took off when he took up the drums, which he had taught himself to play in his early twenties, through the formation of what was to be a 21-year association with Charles Mingus. Mingus biographer Brian Priestley writes that "Dannie became Mingus's equivalent to Harry Carney in the Ellington band, an indispensable ingredient of 'the Mingus sound' and a close friend as well". That association continued after Mingus' death when Richmond became the first musical director of the group Mingus Dynasty in 1980.

Death

He died of a heart attack in Harlem on March 16, 1988, at the age of 56.

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Charles Mingus

The Clown Mingus Three Tijuana Moods East Coasting Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland Blues & Roots Mingus Ah Um Mingus Dynasty Pre-Bird Mingus at Antibes Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Mingus Reincarnation of a Lovebird Oh Yeah Tonight at Noon The Complete Town Hall Concert The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus The Cornell Concert Town Hall Concert Revenge! The Great Concert of Charles Mingus Mingus in Europe Volume I Mingus in Europe Volume II Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop Mingus at Monterey My Favorite Quintet Music Written for Monterey 1965 Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session originally released as Blue Bird and Pithycanthropus ErectusCharles Mingus Sextet In Berlin Let My Children Hear Music Mingus Moves Changes One Changes Two Mingus at Carnegie Hall Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Me, Myself an Eye
  • ''Something Like a Bird''

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With Pepper Adams

With others

With Ray Anderson
With Chet Baker
With Ted Curson
With Booker Ervin
With Ricky Ford
With Bert Jansch
With John Jenkins
With Duke Jordan
With Jimmy Knepper
With Horace Parlan
With Herbie Nichols
With Sahib Shihab
With Zoot SimsDown Home
With Mal Waldron
With Bennie Wallace
  • ''Mystic Bridge''