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Patience Higgins
Patience Higgins is credited on 124 releases across 40 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1973–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
124
Pressings credited
40
Albums
6
Decades active
20
In collections
Biography
Patience Higgins is a New York-based jazz saxophonist, flutist, and multi-reed musician. He also plays clarinet, oboe, and English horn. He has performed with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Barry Harris, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Scott, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paquito D’Rivera, Cleo Laine, and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet. Higgins has a history as a Broadway musician. He is a music educator and teaches at the New York Jazz Workshop Music School. Higgins has toured with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestras. In 1998 he was featured artist playing saxophone and flute for double Grammy Award-winning recording Dee Dee Bridgewater's Dear Ella. Higgins along with the Sugar Hill Quartet were the house band for the Lenox Lounge, and regular Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub in Harlem. His 1998 album 'Live in Harlem' documents Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub.
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Credited work
124 releases · 40 albums · active 1973–2023
- Performance · 209
- Other credits · 2
Studios: Music Farm Studios, New York · Clinton Recording Studio · Effanel Towers · Cine Music Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra
- Rodney Kendrick
- DMP Big Band
- Ariél
- J.O.B. Orquestra
- Saracho
- Rasa (9)
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