Biography: Al King, Al King, Al Klink, Al Lentz, Al Lucas, Al Macdowell, Al McKibbon, Al Morgan, Al Morgan, Al Neil,

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One of a crowd of instrumentalists with this name numerous enough to storm the castle walls, Al King is a funky percussion guy who plays on jazz-lite productions by trumpeter Tom Browne, among them Mo’ Jamaica Funk

Just as a king has a crown, an Al King probably has some adjunct of a first name also put to presumably good use during the course of a lifetime A trumpeter, vocalist, and music director active between the ’20s and ’40s made as many as three dozen jazz records as Al King and also has some trumpet credits in the early days as Alex King

Although few realize it, most people have heard Al Klink’s tenor literally hundreds of times; he can be heard trading off with fellow tenor Tex Beneke on the famous version of Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood!” Klink, a much better jazz improviser than Beneke, unfortunately never received any real fame

A big seller in the Roaring Twenties, bandleader Al Lentz is fading steadily into what could be total obscurity during whatever the ’20s decade winds up getting called in the subsequent century

A fine swing bassist who was a valuable supporting player and had occasional basic solos, Al Lucas had a long career Lucas took piano lessons from his mother (a concert pianist) but switched to bass and tuba when he was 12

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A onetime member of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time Band, and among the generation of bassists strongly influenced by the Stanley Clarke/Jaco Pastorius school, which emphasizes playing the electric bass like a lead guitar rather than a rhythm instrument

Noted for his rich, resonant tone and metronomic precision, Al McKibbon was one of the premier bassists of the early bebop era, supporting giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk in addition to collaborating with percussionist Chano Pozo to forge the sound of Afro-Cuban jazz

Upon being accepted beyond the Pearly Gates, hardly a given considering their typical lifestyles, recently deceased bassists snoop around from cloud to cloud hoping to figure out where Al Morgan hangs out

A multi-instrumentalist named Al Morgan worked on the British dance band scene between the ’20s and ’40s, a genre partially populated by one-named bandleaders such as Ambrose and Geraldo

Jazz pianist, novelist, sculptor, painter, Al Neil is an artist down to the bone Exalted, energetic, whimsical, even cynical at times, he regularly changes skins and constantly remained in the underground ever since he dropped out of the bebop scene in the early 1960s