Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018 He played on over 250 recordings and released more than twenty albums as a soloist. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.

Early years

Green was born in Mobile, Alabama. In 1947, he joined Gene Krupa's band.

Discography

As leader

  • Urbie Green Septet (Modern Jazz Series, New Faces - New Sounds) (10") (Blue Note, 1953)
  • A Cool Yuletide (10") (RCA/X, 1954)
  • Urbie Green and His Band (10") (Vanguard, 1955)
  • Urbie East Coast Jazz/6 (Bethlehem, 1955)
  • Blues and Other Shades of Green (ABC-Paramount, 1955)
  • All About Urbie Green and His Big Band (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
  • Jimmy McHugh in Hi-Fi (RCA Victor, 1958)
  • Let's Face the Music and Dance (RCA Victor, 1958)
  • The Best of New Broadway Show Hits - Urbie Green, His Trombone and Rhythm (RCA Victor, 1959)
  • The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green (Command, 1960)
  • The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green Vol. 2 (Command, 1962)
  • Urbie Green and His 6-Tet (Command, 1963)
  • Twenty-One Trombones (Project 3, 1967)
  • Twenty-One Trombones Vol. Two (Project 3, 1969)
  • Green Power (Project 3, 1971)
  • Bein' Green (Project 3, 1972)
  • Urbie Green's Big Beautiful Band (Project 3, 1974)
  • The Fox (CTI, 1977)
  • Señor Blues (CTI, 1977)
  • The Message (RCA 1986) (recorded 1959)
  • Just Friends (Live at EJ's, 1996) (recorded 1981)
  • Sea Jam Blues (Chiaroscuro, 1997) (recorded 1995)

As sideman

With Manny Albam

  • The Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1956)
  • The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor, 1956)
  • The Blues Is Everybody's Business (Coral, 1958)
  • Sophisticated Lady (Coral, 1958)
  • Jazz Goes to the Movies (Impulse!, 1963)

With The Count Basie Orchestra

  • This Time by Basie! (Reprise, 1963)
  • Ella and Basie! (Verve, 1963)
  • Basie Land (Verve, 1964)

With Tony Bennett

  • My Heart Sings (Columbia, 1961)
  • A Time, for Love (Columbia, 1966)
  • The Very Thought of You (Columbia, 1966)
  • Tony Makes It Happen! (Columbia, 1967)

With Buck Clayton

  • The Huckle-Buck and Robbins' Nest (Columbia, 1954)
  • How Hi the Fi (Columbia, 1954)
  • Jumpin' at the Woodside (Columbia, 1955)
  • Buck Clayton Jams Benny Goodman (Columbia, 1955)
  • All the Cats Join In (Columbia, 1956)
  • Swingin' Buck Clayton Jams (CBS, 1974)
  • A Buck Clayton Jam Session (Chiaroscuro, 1974)

With Quincy Jones

  • This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
  • The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (Mercury, 1959)
  • The Birth of a Band! (Mercury, 1959)
  • Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (Mercury, 1964)
  • Quincy's Got a Brand New Bag (Mercury, 1965)

With Mundell Lowe

  • Themes from Mr. Lucky, the Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (RCA Camden, 1960)
  • Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) (Charlie Parker, 1961)
  • Blues for a Stripper (Charlie Parker, 1962)

With Astrud Gilberto

  • The Shadow of Your Smile (Verve, 1965)
  • Beach Samba (Verve, 1967)
  • That Girl from Ipanema (Image, 1977)

With Woody Herman

  • At the Monterey Jazz Festival (Atlantic, 1960)
  • Hey! Heard the Herd? (Verve, 1963)
  • In Person Woody Herman and His '51 Herd Live in New Orleans (Giants of Jazz, 1979)
  • The Third Herd (Discovery, 1982)

With Antonio Carlos Jobim

  • Wave (A&M/CTI, 1967)
  • Stone Flower (CTI, 1970)
  • Jobim (MCA, 1973)

With J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding

  • Jay & Kai + 6 (Columbia, 1956)
  • Jay and Kai (Fontana, 1959)
  • J.J.'s Broadway (Verve, 1963)

With Enoch Light

  • Provocative Percussion Vol. 2 (Command, 1960)
  • Big Band Bossa Nova (Command, 1962)
  • My Musical Coloring Book (Command, 1963)
  • Film Fame Marvelous Movie Themes (Project 3, 1967)
  • Permissive Polyphonics (Project 3, 1970)
  • The Big Band Sound of the Thirties (Project 3, 1970)
  • Big Band Hits of the 30s & 40s (Project 3, 1971)
  • Big Hits of the 20s (Project 3, 1971)
  • Movie Hits! (Project 3, 1972)
  • The Brass Menagerie 1973 (Project 3, 1972)
  • The Big Band Hits of the 40s & 50s (Project 3, 1973)
  • The Disco Disque (Project 3, 1975)

With Van McCoy

  • Love Is the Answer (Avco, 1974)
  • Rhythms of the World (H&L, 1976)
  • The Real McCoy (H&L, 1976)
  • And His Magnificent Movie Machine (H&L, 1977)
  • My Favorite Fantasy (MCA, 1978)
  • Lonely Dancer (MCA, 1979)

With Hugo Montenegro

  • Ellington Fantasy (Vik, 1958)
  • Bongos and Brass (Time, 1960)
  • Arriba! (Time, 1960)
  • Overture, American Musical Theatre (Time, 1961)
  • Great Songs from Motion Pictures (Time, 1961)
  • Boogie Woogie + Bongos (Time, 1962)
  • The Great Hits of the 50's (Time, 1964)
  • Montenegro & Mayhem (Time, 1965)
  • Mira! (Mainstream, 1967)

With Jimmy Rushing

  • The Jazz Odyssey of Jimmy Rushing (Philips, 1957)
  • Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass (Columbia, 1958)
  • Five Feet of Soul (Colpix, 1963)

With others

  • Steve Allen, Jazz for Tonight (Coral, 1955)
  • Trigger Alpert, Trigger Happy! (Riverside, 1956)
  • LaVern Baker, LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith (Atlantic, 1958)
  • Sallie Blair, Squeeze Me (Bethlehem, 1957)
  • Teresa Brewer, Teresa Brewer and the Dixieland Band (Coral, 1959)
  • Ray Brown & Milt Jackson, Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (Verve, 1965)
  • Ruth Brown, Ruth Brown '65 (Mainstream, 1965)
  • Ruth Brown, Softly (Mainstream, 1972)
  • Ray Bryant, Madison Time (Columbia, 1960)
  • John Bunch, John's Bunch (Famous Door, 1975)
  • Vinnie Burke, The Vinnie Burke All-Stars (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
  • Ralph Burns, Where There's Burns There's Fire (Warwick, 1961)
  • Ralph Burns, Very Warm for Jazz (MCA, 1975)
  • Kenny Burrell, Blues - The Common Ground (Verve, 1968)
  • Kenny Burrell, Night Song (Verve, 1969)
  • Billy Butterfield, Thank You for a Lovely Evening (RCA Victor, 1958)
  • Bobby Byrne, The Jazzbone's Connected to the Trombone (Grand Award, 1959)
  • John Cacavas, Sound Spectrum for Orchestra (Murbo, 1963)
  • Charlie Calello, Calello Serenade (Midsong, 1979)
  • Cab Calloway, The Hi-De-Ho-Man (RCA, 1982)
  • Joe Carroll, Joe Carroll with the Ray Bryant Quintet (Epic, 1956)
  • Ron Carter, Parade (Milestone, 1979)
  • Jim Chapin, Profile of a Jazz Drummer (Classic Jazz, 1977)
  • Ray Charles, Genius + Soul = Jazz (Impulse!, 1961)
  • Ray Charles, At the Club (Philips, 1966)
  • Ray Charles Singers, Something Wonderful (Command, 1961)
  • Al Cohn, Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1961)
  • John Coates Jr., Our Love Is Here to Stay (Baybridge, 1982)
  • John Coates Jr., Pocono Friends Encore (Omni Sound, 1982)
  • Ray Conniff, S Wonderful! (Columbia, 1956)
  • Don Costa, Echoing Voices and Trombones (United Artists, 1960)
  • Miles Davis, Facets (CBS, 1967)
  • Rusty Dedrick, A Jazz Journey (Monmouth, 1965)
  • Johnny Desmond, Desmo Sings Desmond (Coral, 1957)
  • Paul Desmond, Summertime (A&M, 1969)
  • Eumir Deodato, Whirlwinds (MCA, 1974)
  • Eumir Deodato, First Cuckoo (MCA, 1975)
  • Vic Dickenson, Slidin' Swing (Jazztone, 1957)
  • Jean DuShon, Feeling Good (Cadet, 1965)
  • Charles Earland, Coming to You Live (Columbia, 1980)
  • Bill Evans, Symbiosis (MPS/BASF, 1974)
  • Gil Evans, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962)
  • Maynard Ferguson, The Blues Roar (Mainstream, 1964) [reissued as part of The Big F (Mainstream, 1974)]
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie, Ella and Basie! (Verve, 1963)
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald (Amiga, 1966)
  • Aretha Franklin, Soul '69 (Atlantic, 1969)
  • Aretha Franklin, Love All the Hurt Away (Arista, 1987)
  • The Free Design, Heaven/Earth (Project 3, 1969)
  • Barry Galbraith, Guitar and the Wind (Decca, 1958)
  • Terry Gibbs, Swingin' with Terry Gibbs and His Orchestra (EmArcy, 1956)
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Gillespiana (Verve, 1960)
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Perceptions (Verve, 1961)
  • Marty Gold, Swingin' West (RCA Victor, 1960)
  • Marty Gold, 24 Pieces of Gold (RCA Victor, 1962)
  • Benny Goodman, The Benny Goodman Story (Decca, 1955)
  • Buddy Greco, I Like It Swinging (Columbia, 1961)
  • Bobby Hackett, Bobby Hackett Sextet & Quintet (Storyville, 1999)
  • Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk in Hi Fi (RCA Victor, 1956)
  • Coleman Hawkins, Wrapped Tight (Impulse!, 1965)
  • Neal Hefti, Concert Miniatures (Vik, 1957)
  • Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin (Columbia, 1958)
  • Bobby Hutcherson, Conception: The Gift of Love (Columbia, 1979)
  • Fran Jeffries, Fran Jeffries Sings of Sex and the Single Girl (MGM, 1964)
  • Jonah Jones & Jack Teagarden, Double Exposure (Ember, 1962)
  • Beverly Kenney, Come Swing with Me (Roost, 1956)
  • Irene Kral, SteveIreneo! (United Artists, 1959)
  • Gene Krupa, Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Verve, 1959)
  • Gene Krupa, Percussion King (Verve, 1961)
  • Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton, Jazz Spectacular (Columbia, 1956)
  • Elliot Lawrence, Plays Tiny Kahn and Johnny Mandel Arrangements (Fantasy, 1956)
  • Elliot Lawrence, Big Band Modern (Jazztone, 1957)
  • Michel Legrand, Plays Richard Rodgers (Philips, 1963)
  • Sonny Lester, After Hours Middle East (Time, 1962)
  • Jon Lucien, Premonition (Columbia, 1976)
  • Richard Maltby, Many Sided Maltby (Sesac, 1958)
  • Richard Maltby, Ballads and Blues (Roulette, 1962)
  • The Manhattan Transfer, Pastiche (Atlantic, 1978)
  • Herbie Mann, Sultry Serenade (Riverside, 1957)
  • Herbie Mann, Salute to the Flute (Epic, 1957)
  • Marky Markowitz, Mark's Vibes (Famous Door, 1976)
  • Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Marilyn & Billy (Columbia, 1978)
  • Jackie Mclean, Monuments (RCA 1979)
  • Gil Melle, The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions (Blue Note, 1953)
  • Bette Midler, Thighs and Whispers (Atlantic, 1979)
  • Blue Mitchell, Smooth as the Wind (Riverside, 1961)
  • Wes Montgomery, Movin' Wes (Verve, 1964)
  • Sam Most, Sam Most Quartet Plus Two (Debut, 1958)
  • Tony Mottola, Tony Mottola and the Brass Menagerie (Project 3, 1974)
  • Mark Murphy, Rah! (Riverside, 1961)
  • Herbie Mann, Salute to the Flute (Epic, 1957)
  • Herbie Mann, Sultry Serenade (Riverside, 1958)
  • Gerry Mulligan, Mulligan in the Main (Phontastic, 1992)
  • Oliver Nelson, Impressions of Phaedra (United Artists Jazz, 1962)
  • Oliver Nelson, Afro/American Sketches (Prestige, 1962)
  • Oliver Nelson, Full Nelson (Verve, 1963)
  • Joe Newman, I'm Still Swinging (RCA Victor, 1955)
  • Joe Newman, Salute to Satch (RCA Victor, 1956)
  • Red Norvo, Urbie Green, Dave McKenna, Live at Rick's Cafe Americain (Flying Fish, 1979)
  • Chico O'Farrill, Nine Flags (Impulse!, 1966)
  • Charlie Parker, Bird with the Herd 1951 (Alamac, 1972)
  • Peaches & Herb, Peaches & Herb (MCA, 1977)
  • Tony Perkins, From My Heart (RCA Victor, 1958)
  • Nick Perito, Blazing Latin Brass (United Artists, 1960)
  • Esther Phillips, Performance (Kudu, 1974)
  • Jimmy Ponder, All Things Beautiful (LRC 1978)
  • Jimmy Ponder, Los Grandes Del Jazz 28 (Sarpe, 1980)
  • Della Reese, Melancholy Baby (Jubilee, 1957)
  • Irene Reid, It's Only the Beginning (MGM, 1963)
  • Irene Reid, Room for One More (Verve, 1965)
  • Joe Reisman, Door of Dreams (RCA Victor, 1957)
  • Joe Reisman, Party Night at Joe's (RCA Victor, 1958)
  • Henri Rene, Compulsion to Swing (RCA Victor, 1959)
  • Frank Rosolino, North Sea Jazz Sessions Vol. 2 (Jazz World, 1992)
  • Lillian Roth, I'll Cry Tomorrow (Philips, 1957)
  • David Ruffin, Who I Am (Motown, 1975)
  • Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson, The Spirit of '67 (ABC Impulse!, 1972)
  • Lalo Schifrin, New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)
  • Lalo Schifrin, Towering Toccata (CTI, 1977)
  • Shirley Scott, Great Scott!! ( (Impulse!, 1964)
  • Doc Severinsen, The Big Band's Back in Town (Command, 1962)
  • Phil Silvers, Phil Silvers and Swinging Brass (Columbia, 1957)
  • Charlie Shavers & Sam Taylor Cole Porter Swings Easy in Stereo (Soundcraft, 1961)
  • Zoot Sims, On the Trail (Pausa, 1978)
  • Frank Sinatra, L.A. Is My Lady (Qwest, 1984)
  • George Siravo, Rodgers & Hart Percussion & Strings (Time, 1960)
  • Jimmy Smith, Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (Verve, 1962)
  • Jimmy Smith, The Cat (Verve, 1964)
  • Marvin Stamm, Machinations (Verve, 1968)
  • Sonny Stitt, The Matadors Meet the Bull (Roulette, 1965)
  • Sonny Stitt, I Keep Comin' Back! (Roulette, 1966)
  • Kirby Stone, Frank Loesser's Broadway Hit Guys & Dolls Like Today (Columbia, 1962)
  • Sylvia Syms, The Fabulous Sylvia Syms (20th Century Fox, 1964)
  • Grady Tate, Windmills of My Mind (Skye, 1968)
  • Billy Taylor, Right Here, Right Now! (Capitol, 1963)
  • Clark Terry & Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Costa: Memorial Concert (Colpix, 1963)
  • Clark Terry, What Makes Sammy Swing! (20th Century Fox, 1964)
  • Stanley Turrentine, Nightwings (Fantasy, 1977)
  • Stanley Turrentine, West Side Highway (Fantasy, 1978)
  • Charlie Ventura, Chazz '77 (Famous Door, 1977)
  • Walter Wanderley, Rain Forest (Verve, 1966)
  • Dinah Washington, The Swingin' Miss "D" (EmArcy, 1957)
  • Dinah Washington, Newport '58 (Mercury, 1972)
  • Frances Wayne, The Warm Sound: Frances Wayne (Atlantic, 1957)
  • Frank Wess, The Award Winner (Mainstream, 1964)
  • Joe Wilder, The Pretty Sound (Columbia, 1959)
  • Julie Wilson, Love (Dolphin, 1956)
  • Kai Winding, Dirty Dog (Verve, 1966)
  • Kai Winding, More Brass (Verve, 1966)
  • Kai Winding, Carl Fontana, & Trummy Young, Oleo (Pausa, 1978)
  • Lee Wiley, West of the Moon (RCA Victor, 1957)
  • George Williams, Put On Your Dancing Shoes (United Artists, 1960)
  • Jimmy Witherspoon, At the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia, 1975)
  • Zulema, Z-licious (London, 1978)

References

  • Official site
  • Urbie Green at the Trombone Page of the World
  • A Tribute to Urbie Green
  • Biography at Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
  • Biography at WindSong Press
  • Profile at Verve Music
  • Official website of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
  • Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green