Osie Johnson
American jazz musician
James "Osie" Johnson (January 11, 1923, in Washington, D.C. – February 10, 1966, in New York City) was a jazz drummer, arranger and singer.[1]
Johnson studied at Armstrong Highschool where he was classmates with Leo Parker and Frank Wess.[1] He first worked with Sabby Lewis and then, after service in the United States Navy, freelanced for a time in Chicago. From 1951 to 1953, he was a member of Earl Hines's band.[2]
He can be heard on albums by Paul Gonsalves, Zoot Sims, and Mose Allison and is the drummer on Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife". (Some sources list Don Lamond as the drummer on "Mack the Knife") and on Ray Conniff's first album 'S Wonderful!. He recorded the album A Bit of the Blues as a singer and had arranged at a "hit" for singer Dinah Washington. His final recordings as a singer were on a J. J. Johnson album, now compiled as a collection called Goodies.
In 1957, Johnson appeared with Thelonious Monk and Ahmed Abdul-Malik on The Sound of Jazz.[3]
Johnson died from kidney failure in 1966, at the age of 43.[1]
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Bob Brookmeyer
With Jimmy Cleveland
With Al Cohn
With Coleman Hawkins
With Johnny Hodges
With Hank Jones
With Quincy Jones
With Howard McGhee
With Joe Newman
With Oscar Pettiford
With Jimmy Raney
With Ben Webster
With others
- Manny Albam, The Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1956) with Ernie Wilkins
- Mose Allison, I Don't Worry About a Thing (Atlantic, 1962)
- Harry Belafonte, Belafonte Sings the Blues (RCA Victor, 1959)
- Charles Brown, Boss of the Blues (Mainstream, 1963)
- Charles Brown, Ballads My Way (Mainstream, 1965)
- Clifford Brown, The Beginning and the End (Columbia, 1973)
- Ray Bryant, Ray Bryant Trio (Epic, 1956)
- Kenny Burrell, Bluesin' Around (Columbia, 1983)
- Ralph Burns and Leonard Feather, Winter Sequence (MGM, 1954)
- Arnett Cobb, Smooth Sailing (Prestige, 1959)
- Freddy Cole, Waiter, Ask the Man to Play the Blues (Dot, 1964)
- Bobby Darin, That's All (Atco, 1959)
- Jean DuShon, Feeling Good (Cadet, 1965)
- Art Farmer, Last Night When We Were Young (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
- Aretha Franklin, Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo (Columbia, 1961)
- Curtis Fuller, Cabin in the Sky (Impulse!, 1962)
- Bennie Green, Bennie Green Blows His Horn (Prestige, 1955)
- Freddie Green, Mr. Rhythm (RCA Victor, 1955)
- Urbie Green, All About Urbie Green and His Big Band (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
- Tiny Grimes, Callin' the Blues with J. C. Higginbotham (Prestige, 1958)
- Gigi Gryce, Gigi Gryce (MetroJazz, 1958)
- Lionel Hampton, You Better Know It!!! (Impulse!, 1965)
- Johnny Hartman, All of Me: The Debonair Mr. Hartman (Bethlehem, 1957)
- Johnny Hartman, The Voice That Is! (Impulse!, 1964)
- Tramaine Hawkins, To a Higher Place (Columbia, 1994)
- Claude Hopkins, Yes Indeed! with Buddy Tate and Emmett Berry (Swingville, 1960)
- Lena Horne, Lena on the Blue Side (RCA Victor, 1962)
- Langston Hughes, Weary Blues (MGM, 1958)
- Illinois Jacquet, The Kid and the Brute with Ben Webster (Clef, 1955)
- Budd Johnson, French Cookin' (Argo, 1963)
- J. J. Johnson, Goodies (RCA, 1965)
- Mundell Lowe, Porgy & Bess (RCA Camden, 1958)
- Junior Mance, The Soul of Hollywood (Jazzland, 1962)
- Gary McFarland, The Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" (Verve, 1962)
- Carmen McRae, Carmen McRae (Bethlehem, 1954)
- Helen Merrill, Helen Merrill (EmArcy, 1954)
- Helen Merrill, The Artistry of Helen Merrill (Mainstream, 1965)
- Joe Mooney, Lush Life (Atlantic, 1958)
- Phineas Newborn, Jr., Phineas Newborn, Jr. Plays Harold Arlen's Music from Jamaica (RCA Victor, 1957)
- Bud Powell, Blues for Bud (Columbia, 1958)
- Della Reese, Melancholy Baby (Jubilee, 1957)
- Irene Reid, Room for One More (Verve, 1965)
- George Russell, The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor, 1957)
- Pee Wee Russell, Swingin' with Pee Wee with Buck Clayton (Swingville, 1960)
- A. K. Salim, Stable Mates (Savoy, 1957)
- Shirley Scott, Great Scott!! (Impulse!, 1964)
- Zoot Sims, Zoot! (Riverside, 1956)
- Hal Singer, Blue Stompin' (Prestige, 1959) with Charlie Shavers
- Sonny Stitt, Broadway Soul (Colpix, 1965)
- Sylvia Syms, Sylvia Is! (Prestige, 1965)
- Buddy Tate, Tate's Date (Swingville, 1960)
- Billy Taylor, Kwamina (Mercury, 1961)
- Frank Wess, Southern Comfort (Prestige, 1962)
- Joe Wilder, The Pretty Sound (Columbia, 1959)
- Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi (RCA Victor, 1958)
- Joe Williams, Me and the Blues (RCA Victor, 1964)
- Kai Winding, Dance to the City Beat (Columbia, 1959)
- Phil Woods, Rights of Swing (Candid, 1961)
- Eddie Jefferson, The Jazz Singer (Evidence, 1959)
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