What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

King Together Again. He played with Charles Mingus Lionel Hampton the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and later with Earl Hines' small band. Discography


As leader
1958: Midnight Oil (New Jazz with Jimmy Cleveland Hank Jones Kenny Burrell Joe Benjamin Charlie Persip)
1959: Roamin' with Richardson (New Jazz with Richard Wyands George Tucker Charlie Persip)
1967: Groove Merchant (Verve with Grady Tate Ernest Hayes Chuck Rainey Snooky Young Joe Newman Warren Smith Eric Gale
1996: Jazz Station Runaway (TCB with Russell Malone George Mraz Lewis Nash David Hazeltine)


As sideman
1955: Kenny Clarke: Bohemia After Dark
1955: Nat Adderley: That's Nat
1955: Sarah Vaughan: In the Land of Hi-Fi'(Mercury)
1956: Cannonball Adderley: In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley
1956: Kenny Burrell: All Night Long (Prestige)
1957: Phineas Newborn Jr.

He played with Charles Mingus Lionel Hampton the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and later with Earl Hines' small band. Richardson was born in Oakland California and died in Englewood New Jersey. Jerome Richardson (December 25 1920 – June 23 2000) was an American jazz musician tenor saxophonist and flute player who also played alto sax baritone sax clarinet and piccolo.