Waters, Benjamin

Waters, Benjamin
▪ 1999

      American tenor saxophonist and arranger who played for seven years with Charlie Johnson's early Harlem jazz band in New York City. A journeyman sideman, he later played woodwinds with American jazz and blues bands fronted by Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Archey, and Roy Milton before moving (1952) to Paris and performing in Europe as a bandleader and soloist; after resettling in the U.S. in 1992, he continued to tour as a singer and alto saxophone soloist until shortly before his death (b. Jan. 23, 1902, Brighton, Md.—d. Aug. 11, 1998, Columbia, Md.).

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