Gil Askey
Gilbert Askey (March 9, 1925 – April 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer, and musical director who was born in Austin, Texas, and emigrated to Australia in 1988.
Personal life
Askey was born in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 1925, but left at the age of 17. He completed two years of university on a medical scholarship.
In 1980, he married an Australian woman whom he had first met in 1973 and the pair moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1988.
Career
Askey was considered to be "one of the architects of the legendary Motown sound".Berry Gordy often called Askey "The glue that kept everything together".
Askey studied music at the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Harnett School of Music in New York.
He performed with many famous musicians, some of the biggest jazz legends, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, and even did a duet with Billie Holiday. He worked as a musical director for many well-known acts, including Diana Ross, both with and without The Supremes, the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, Keni Burke and Linda Clifford.
Podcasts:
Gil Askey
ALBUMS
- Buddy & Ella Johnson: 1953-1964 released: 1992
Buddy & Ella Johnson: 1953-1964
Released 1992- That's How I Feel About You
- Ecstasy
- Hittin' on Me
- Jit Jit (instrumental)
- I'm Just Your Fool
- A-12 (instrumental)
- I Never Had It So Good
- Ain't Cha Got Me (Where You Want Me)
- Bring It Up, Van Dyke (instrumental)
- My Old Man
- One More Time
- Let's Start All Over Again (Down on Bended Knee)
- Shut Your Big Mouth (Girl)
- Mush Mouth (instrumental) (alternate)
- Mush Mouth (instrumental)
- Any Day Now
- A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac and Some Money)
- Ain't But One
- There's No One Like You
- Thinking It Over
- If You'd Say Yes
- It Used to Hurt Me
- Well Do It
- Bitter Sweet (instrumental)
- Crazy 'Bout a Saxophone
- Send Out for a Bucket of Beer
Born: 1925-03-09
Died: 2014-04-09
