Sammy Rimington


Samuel Rimington, is an English jazz reed player. He has been an active New Orleans jazz revivalist since the late 1950s.
File:BurkeRimmingtonWhite.jpg|right|thumb|Rimington, center, at jazz funeral for Danny Barker, New Orleans, 1994. He is flanked by clarinetists Chris Burke at left and Dr. Michael White at right.
Rimington played with Barry Martyn in 1959. He became a professional musician in 1960 when he joined the band of Ken Colyer. He stayed with Colyer until 1965 and then moved to the U.S. and worked with Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Rider Jazz Band and the December Band. He made some jazz fusion recordings early in the 1970s, but most of his work has been in the New Orleans jazz vein, playing with Louis Nelson, Big Jim Robinson, Chris Barber, Kid Thomas Valentine, and Captain John Handy. He has recorded extensively as a bandleader since the early 1960s. Rimington's main influences were George Lewis on clarinet and Captain John Handy on alto sax.
Since 1982, Rimington gave for many years a concert annually at Floda Church near the town Katrineholm, Sweden. In the beginning, he was invited by the priest Lars "Sumpen" Sundbom, who was himself a jazz musician. Rimington frequently recorded with, and was accompanied on tours by, the pianist Jon Marks.
In 2010, he undertook some gigs with Anders Johansson.

Discography

As leader

  • 1963 George Lewis Classics
  • 1973 New Orleans Music
  • 1977 Sammy Rimington and His New Orleans Quartet
  • 1986 Sammy Rimington in New Orleans 1986
  • 1986 Exciting Sax
  • 1988 Of Days That Have Gone By with Barry Martyn
  • 1994 New Orleans Christmas
  • 1995 Everybody's Talkin'
  • 1995 More Exciting Sax
  • 1995 On Tour With T. Jefferson
  • 1995 Watering the Roots with Big Bill Bissonnette
  • 1999 Reed My Lips
  • 2000 Live in-Store at the Louisiana Music Factory
  • 2002 Last Session at San Jacinto Hall
  • 2008 Visits New Orleans
  • 2015 ''Sammy Rimington Quintet''

As sideman

With Ken Colyer
With Captain John Handy
  • 1968 Very Handy!
  • 1965 All Aboard, Vol. 1
  • 1965 All Aboard, Vol. 2
With others