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Gigi Gryce
Gigi Gryce, later in life changing his name to Basheer Qusim, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator. While his performing career was relatively short, much of his work as a player, composer, and arranger was quite influential and well-recognized during his time. However, Gryce abruptly ended his jazz career in the 1960s. This, in addition to his nature as a private person, has resulted in little knowledge of Gryce today. Several of his compositions have been covered extensively and have become minor jazz standards. Gryce's compositional bent includes harmonic choices similar to those of contemporaries Benny Golson, Tadd Dameron and Horace Silver. Gryce's playing, arranging, and composing are most associated with the classic hard bop era. He was a well-educated composer and musician, and wrote some classical works as a student at the Boston Conservatory. As a jazz musician and composer he was influenced by the work of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. From Wikipedia (

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Social Call
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All the Things You Are (Master Take)
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Albums

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Modern Jazz Perspective

2025
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The Sessions

2010
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The Hap'nin's (feat. Richard Williams)

1960
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Essential Jazz Masters

2012
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When Farmer Met Gryce

1994
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Gigi Gryce And The Jazz Lab Quintet (Remastered 1991) (feat. Donald Byrd, Art Taylor, Wendell Marshall & Wade Legge)

1957
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The Very Best Of

2011
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The Rat Race Blues (Remastered 1991) (feat. Richard Williams)

1960
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Essential Jazz Masters

2010
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Saying Somethin'!

1960

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Well You Needn't, arr. Mike Kamuf - Score & Sound

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Boxer's Blues

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A Night At Tony's

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Minority - Gigi Gryce Quintet

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Blues In Bloom

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Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce - Evening in Casablanca

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Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane — OFF MINOR - Alternate Master (Monk / Trane, 1973) double vinyl LP

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Well You Needn't Thelonious Monk 1944 Alto Sax

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Monday Through Sunday

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Well You Needn't by Thelonious Monk/arr. Mark Taylor

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