Search - Artist/Band: Joe Temperley

• Name: Joe Temperley
• Birthday: 09/20/1929
• Birth Place: Fife, Scotland
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Swing

Title	Release
The Sinatra Songbook	09/09/2008
Cocktails for Two	07/17/2007
A Portrait WA	11/24/2006
Special Relationship	07/03/2002
Easy to Remember WA	10/09/2001
With Every Breath WA	10/13/1998
Double Duke WA	10/02/1998
Nightingale WA	04/1991

Baritonist Joe Temperley is the perfect musician to fill in for Harry Carney during recreations of Duke Ellington's music, a role that has often overshadowed his own fine voice. Temperley actually started on the alto and recorded on tenor with English bands led by Harry Parry (1949), Jack Parnell, Tony Crombie, and Tommy Whittle. He stuck to baritone during a long association with Humphrey Lyttelton's popular band (1958-1965). In 1965, Temperley moved to New York, working with a variety of big bands (including Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, and Clark Terry). In 1974, he became the first replacement for Harry Carney with the Mercer Ellington Orchestra and then freelanced with the who's who of jazz including (starting in 1990) the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Temperley has several fine albums out as a leader, most notably for the Scottish Hep label; on the centennial of Ellington's birth, he released 1999's Double Duke. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide