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((Short description|American jazz trumpeter))
((Use mdy dates|date=October 2015))
((More citations needed|date=January 2015))
((Infobox musical artist
| name                = Howard McGhee
| image               = Howard_McGhee_1976.jpg
| image_size          = 250
| landscape           = yes
| caption             = Rochester, New York, 1976
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = ((birth date|1918|3|6))
| birth_place         = [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]], Oklahoma, U.S.
| death_date          = ((death date and age|mf=yes|1987|7|17|1918|3|6))
| death_place         = New York City, New York
| genre               = [[Jazz]]
| occupation          = Musician
| instrument          = Trumpet
| years_active        = 
| label               = [[Dial Records (1946)|Dial]]
| associated_acts     = [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk]], [[Count Basie]]
))

'''Howard McGhee''' (March 6, 1918 – July 17, 1987)<ref name="Obit"/> was one of the first American [[bebop]] jazz trumpeters, with [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Fats Navarro]] and [[Idrees Sulieman]]. He was known for his fast fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger bebop trumpeters such as [[Fats Navarro]].

==Biography==
Howard McGhee was born in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], United States, and raised in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]].<ref name="AMG">((Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/howard-mcghee-mn0000276917/biography|title=Howard McGhee &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=July 29, 2021))</ref> 

During his career, he played in bands led by [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk]], [[Count Basie]] and [[Charlie Barnet]]. He was in a club listening to the radio when he first heard [[Charlie Parker]] and was one of the earliest adopters of the new style, a fact that was disapproved by older musicians like [[Kid Ory]].((Citation needed|date=January 2015))
[[File:Thelonious Monk and Howard McGhee, Minton's Playhouse , Sept 1947 (Gottlieb 10248).jpg|thumb|left|230px|[[Thelonious Monk]] and Howard McGhee, [[Minton's Playhouse]], c. September 1947]]

In 1946–1947, some record sessions for the new label [[Dial Records (1946)|Dial]] were organized in Hollywood, with Charlie Parker and McGhee. The first was held on July 29, 1946. The musicians were Charlie Parker, Howard McGhee, Jimmy Bunn, Bob Kesterson, and [[Roy Porter (drummer)|Roy Porter]]. With Parker's health near to collapse, he played "Max is Making Wax", "[[Lover Man]]", and "[[The Gypsy (song)|The Gypsy]]".<ref name="Owens">((cite book | last = Owens | first = Thomas | title = Bebop | url = https://archive.org/details/bebopmusicitspla00owen_905 | url-access = limited | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Los Angeles Berkeley | year = 1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bebopmusicitspla00owen_905/page/n124 108] | isbn = 978-0-19-510651-0 ))</ref>

McGhee continued to work as a [[sideman]] with Parker.<ref name="AMG"/> He played on titles such as "Relaxin' at Camarillo", "Cheers", "Carvin the Bird" and "Stupendous". Around this time, McGhee was a leading musician in the Los Angeles bebop scene, participating in many concerts, recording, and even managing a night club for a period.<ref name="Owens" /> His stay in California ended because of racial prejudice, particularly vicious towards McGhee as half of a mixed-race couple.<ref>((cite book | last = Barron | first = Stephanie | title = Reading California : art, image, and identity, 1900-2000 | url = https://archive.org/details/readingcaliforni00step | url-access = registration | publisher = Los Angeles County Museum of Art University of California Press | location = Los Angeles Berkeley | year = 2000 | isbn = 0520227670 ))</ref>

Drug problems sidelined McGhee for much of the 1950s, but he resurfaced in the 1960s, appearing in many [[George Wein]] productions.<ref name="AMG"/> His career sputtered again in the mid-1960s and he did not record again until 1976.<ref name="AMG"/> He led one of three big jazz bands trying to succeed in New York in the late 1960s. While the band did not survive, a recording was released in the mid-1970s.

He taught music through the 1970s, both in classrooms and at his apartment in midtown Manhattan and instructed musicians like [[Charlie Rouse]] in music theory.((Citation needed|date=January 2015)) He was as much an accomplished composer-arranger as he was a performer.

McGhee died on July 17, 1987, at the age of 69, a memorial service was held for him on July 24, 1987.<ref name="Obit">((Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/18/obituaries/howard-mcghee-69-is-dead-a-trumpeter-and-composer.html|title=Howard McGhee, 69, Is Dead; A Trumpeter and Composer|last=Palmer|first=Robert|date=1987-07-18|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2017-08-23|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331))</ref>

==Discography==
[[File:Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Hill, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06231).jpg|thumb|right|240px|(From left) [[Thelonious Monk]], Howard McGhee, [[Roy Eldridge]], [[Teddy Hill]], Minton's Playhouse, New York City, c. September 1947]]

===As leader/co-leader===
* 1946–47 ''Trumpet at Tempo'' ([[Dial Records (1946)|Dial]] [rel. 1996])
* 1948 ''[[Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson]]'' ([[Savoy Records|Savoy]])
* 1950 ''Howard McGhee, Vol. 1'' ([[Blue Note]]) with [[Fats Navarro]]
* 1951 ''Night Music'' (Dial)
* 1952 ''Jazz South Pacific'' ([[Regent Records (US)|Regent]]) with [[J.J. Johnson]], [[Oscar Pettiford]] [AKA ''Jazz Goes to the Battlefront'']
* 1953 ''Howard McGhee, Vol. 2'' (Blue Note) with [[Gigi Gryce]]
* 1955 ''[[The Return of Howard McGhee]]'' ([[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]]) [AKA ''That Bop Thing'']
* 1956 ''[[Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (album)|Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries]]'' (Bethlehem)
* 1960 ''[[Dusty Blue]]'' (Bethlehem)
* 1960 ''[[Music from the Connection]]'' ([[Felsted Records|Felsted]])
* 1961 ''[[Together Again!!!!]]'' ([[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]]) with [[Teddy Edwards]]
* 1961 ''[[Maggie's Back in Town!!]]'' (Contemporary)
* 1961 ''The Sharp Edge'' ([[Fontana Records|Fontana]]) [AKA ''Shades of Blue'']
* 1962 ''Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]])
* 1963 ''House Warmin'!'' ([[Argo Records|Argo]]) originally issued in 1962 on Winley Records as ''Nothin' But Soul'' under [[Gene Ammons]]' name.
* 1976 ''Here Comes Freddy'' ([[Sonet Records|Sonet]]) with [[Illinois Jacquet]]
* 1976 ''Just Be There'' ([[SteepleChase Records|SteepleChase]]) with [[Horace Parlan]], [[Kenny Clarke]]
* 1977 ''Cookin' Time'', Howard McGhee Orchestra (Zim Records)
* 1978 ''Live at Emerson's'', Howard McGhee Sextet (Zim Records)
* 1978 ''Jazz Brothers'' (Jazzcraft) with [[Charlie Rouse]]
* 1978 ''Home Run'' (Jazzcraft) with [[Benny Bailey]]
* 1979 ''[[Young at Heart (Howard McGhee and Teddy Edwards album)|Young at Heart]]'' ([[Storyville Records|Storyville]]) with Teddy Edwards
* 1979 ''[[Wise in Time]]'' (Storyville) with Teddy Edwards

===As sideman===
'''With [[Lorez Alexandria]]'''
*''[[Deep Roots (Lorez Alexandria album)|Deep Roots]]'' (Argo, 1962)

'''With [[Georgie Auld]]'''
*''[[Rainbow Mist]]'' ([[Delmark Records|Delmark]], 1944 [1992]) compilation of Apollo recordings

'''With [[Billy Eckstine]]'''
*''Maggie: The Savoy Sessions'' (Savoy, 1947 [1995]) includes the infamous Eckstine/McGhee four song session, originally recorded in Chicago for Vitacoustic Records; personnel: Howard McGhee (tp), Billy Eckstine (vtb), Kenny Mann (ts), [[Hank Jones]] (p), [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] (b), [[J.C. Heard]] (d), Marcel Daniels (v).

'''With [[Johnny Hartman]]'''
* ''[[Songs from the Heart (Johnny Hartman album)|Songs from the Heart]]'' (Bethlehem, 1955)
* ''[[All of Me: The Debonair Mr. Hartman]]'' (Bethlehem, 1956)

'''With [[Coleman Hawkins]]'''
* ''Hollywood Stampede'' (Capitol, 1945 [1972])
* ''[[Disorder at the Border]]'' (Spotlite, 1952 [1973])

'''With [[Chubby Jackson]]'''
* ''Chubby Jackson All Star Big Band'' (1950)
* ''Chubby Jackson Sextet and Big Band'' (Prestige, 1947–1950 [1969])

'''With [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]]'''
* ''[[Cookin' the Blues]]'' [live] (Argo, 1961 [1964])

'''With [[André Previn]]'''
* ''André Previn All-Stars'' (1946)
* ''Previn at Sunset'' ([[Polydor Records|Polydor]], 1972)

'''With [[Mel Tormé]]'''
* ''George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess'' (Bethlehem, 1956) with [[Frances Faye]]
* ''[[Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957 album)|At the Crescendo]]'' (Bethlehem, 1957)
* ''[[Songs for Any Taste]]'' (Bethlehem, 1957)

===With others===
* 1954 ''[[Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic]]'', [[Billie Holiday]] (Clef, rec. 1945–1946)
* 1956 ''Way Out Wardell'', [[Wardell Gray]] (Modern)
* 1960 ''[[The Music From The Connection (Freddie Redd Quartet)|The Music from "The Connection"]]'', [[Freddie Redd]] (Blue Note)
* 1962 ''[[Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra]]'', [[Johnny Hodges]] (Verve)
* 1962 ''Good Old Zoot'', [[Zoot Sims]] (New Jazz)
* 1963 ''[[At Newport '63 (Joe Williams album)|At Newport '63]]'', [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]] (RCA Victor)
* 1967 ''Tribute To Charlie Parker (From The Newport Jazz Festival)'' (RCA Victor, rec. 1964)
* 1968 ''[[Boppin' & Burnin']]'' , [[Don Patterson (organist)|Don Patterson]] (Prestige)
* 1969 ''Early Quintets'', [[Phil Woods]] (Prestige, rec. 1959)
* 1976 ''Red Top: The Savoy Sessions (1947–1953)'', [[Gene Ammons]] (Savoy)
* 1976 ''The Jazz Singer'', [[Eddie Jefferson]] (Inner City, rec. 1959–1961)
* 1989 ''Autumn in New York'', [[Sonny Stitt]] (Black Lion, rec. 1967)
* 1991 ''California Boppin' 1947'', [[Sonny Criss]] (Fresh Sound)
* 1993 ''The Chronological...1940–1942'', [[Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy]] (Classics)
* 1995 ''Dodo Marmarosa On Dial: The Complete Sessions (1946–1947)'', [[Dodo Marmarosa]] (Spotlite)
* 1996 ''The Chronological...1944–1945'', [[Wynonie Harris]] (Classics)<ref name="AM credits">((cite web|title=Howard McGhee ((!)) Credits ((!)) AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/howard-mcghee-mn0000276917/credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=24 July 2017))</ref>
* 1996 ''The Chronological...1945'', [[Slim Gaillard]] (Classics)

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
* ((cite book | last = DeVeaux | first = Scott | title = The birth of bebop : a social and musical history | url = https://archive.org/details/birthofbebopsoci00deve | url-access = registration | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780520216655 ))

==External links==
*[((Allmusic|class=artist|id=p23335/discography|pure_url=yes)) AllMusic Discography]
*[https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/6/resources/520 Howard McGhee papers], [[Institute of Jazz Studies]], Rutgers University

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