Joe Gordon (musician) Gordon. He recorded as a bandleader for two sessions, and appeared on one recording with Thelonious Monk. He died in a house fire on November 4, 1963. With Art Blakey With Donald Byrd With Dizzy Gillespie With Barney Kessel With Harold Land With Shelly Manne With Thelonious Monk With Herb Pomeroy With Horace Silver With Jimmy Woods With Various Artists Joe Gordon (musician) Joseph Henry Gordon (May 15, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts – November 4, 1963, in Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz trumpeter. His first professional gigs were in Boston in 1947; he played with Georgie Auld, Charlie
Louis Smith (musician) Louis Smith (musician) After graduating from Tennessee State University he attended graduate school at the University of Michigan. While studying at the University of Michigan, he played with visiting musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thad Jones and Billy Mitchell, before going on to play with Sonny Stitt, Count Basie and Al McKibbon, Cannonball Adderley, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Kenny Dorham and Zoot Sims. Smith decided to forego being a full-time musician to take a job a director of Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School. There he recorded two albums for Blue Note. The