Jimmy Cleveland


James Milton Cleveland was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.
Cleveland worked with many other jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford and James Brown. He also recorded a sequence of albums for EmArcy/Mercury Records in the 1950s. He continued to make records with Zion Records later in his career.
Cleveland died August 23, 2008 in Lynwood, California at age 82.

Discography

As leader

with Julian Cannonball Adderley
With Gene Ammons
With Dorothy Ashby
With Art Blakey
With Brass Fever
with James Brown
With Ruth Brown
With Kenny Burrell
With Donald Byrd
with Clifford Coulter
With Hank Crawford
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
with Miles Davis:
With Teddy Edwards
with Gil Evans
With Art Farmer
With Maynard Ferguson
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Benny Golson
With Johnny Griffin
with Gigi Gryce:
With Chico Hamilton
With Milt Jackson
with Antonio Carlos Jobim:
With J. J. Johnson
With Quincy Jones
With Sam Jones
with Gene Krupa
with Melba Liston
With Mundell Lowe
With Junior Mance
With Gary McFarland
With Carmen McRae
With Charles Mingus
With Blue Mitchell
With the Modern Jazz Quartet
With Thelonious Monk
With Wes Montgomery
With James Moody
With Oliver Nelson
With Phineas Newborn, Jr.
With Joe Newman
With Duke Pearson
With Tony Perkins
with Oscar Peterson
with Oscar Pettiford
With Specs Powell
With Jerome Richardson
With Sonny Rollins
with Jimmy Rushing
with Lalo Schifrin
With Shirley Scott
with Jimmy Smith:
With Sonny Stitt
With Idrees Sulieman
with Billy Taylor
with Clark Terry:
with Lucky Thompson:
with Stanley Turrentine:
with Sarah Vaughan:
with Dinah Washington:
With Randy Weston
With Gerald Wilson
With Kai Winding
With Phil Woods