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Cleveland Eaton

Fairfield, United States

Cleveland Eaton is credited on 626 releases across 111 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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626

Pressings credited

111

Albums

7

Decades active

86

In collections

Biography

Cleveland Josephus Eaton II (August 31, 1939 – July 5, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist, producer, arranger, composer, publisher, and head of his own record company in Fairfield, Alabama, south of Mobile. His most famous accomplishments were playing with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. His 1975 recording Plenty Good Eaton is considered a classic in the funk music genre. He was inducted into both the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. During the early 1960s Eaton taught music at Chicago Public Schools. He was the music teacher at George Washington Carver Upper Grade (7th - 8th grade).

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Credited work

626 releases · 111 albums · active 1964–2024

  • Performance · 1,164
  • Production · 51
  • Other credits · 4
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Universal Recording Studio · Ter Mar Studios · RCA Studios, Chicago · Basin Street West

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