Shake Keane

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Shake Keane / Ellsworth Keane / Leonard Blech / Ellesworth Shakekean

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Berry Lipman & His Orchestra Orchester Kurt Edelhagen Shake Keane & His Highlifers The Joe Harriott Double Quintet Johnny Keating And 27 Men Sincerely P.T. Shake Keane Quintet Joe Harriott Sextet Carl Drewo Septet Peter Trunk Sextet Hugh Hendriks And The Buccaneers

ex Clarke-Boland Big Band, Joe Harriott Quintet, Michael Garrick Quintet

trumpet player
Saint Vincentian calypso / soca / jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, arranger, poet, teacher and government minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Born: 30 May 1927 in Kingstown, Saint Vincent, Caribbean.
Died: 11 October 1997 in Bergen, Norway (aged 70).
Played with: Joe Harriott, Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland, amongst others.

ALBUMS

Michael Garrick And Shake Keane

Easy Listening/Bossa Nova/Modal

Dannie Abse, Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Jeremy Robson, Michael Garrick Quintet Featuring Joe Harriott And Shake Keane

Poetry And Jazz In Concert

2006, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Vocalion

Dig It! / Shake Keane With The Keating Sound

2005, CD, Comp, RM, Vocalion,

Soul-Jazz/Easy Listening

Real Keen: Reggae Into Jazz

Shake Keane, The Kilimanjaro Strings And Orchestra , The Hastings Girls Choir

Rising Stars At Evening Time

1970, LP, Album, Economy (2), Pama Records

Soul Serenade / Green Onions

1969, 7", Single, Decca

That's The Noise

Shake Keane With The Keating Sound

Shake Keane With The Keating Sound

Michael Garrick Quintet Featuring Joe Harriott And Shake Keane

Michael Garrick Quintet With Shake Keane And Joe Harriott

Shake Keane And The Michael Garrick Quartette*

1964, 7", EP, Mono, Airborne Records (4),

Shake Keane, The Hastings Girls Choir, The Gordon Langford Orchestra*

1964, 7", EP, Airborne Records (4),

Calle Washington

1964, 7", Single, Airborne Records (4)

Dannie Abse, Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Jeremy Robson, The Michael Garrick Quintet* Featuring Joe Harriott And Shake Keane

Poetry And Jazz In Concert - Record Two

Dannie Abse, Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Jeremy Robson, The Michael Garrick Quintet* Featuring Joe Harriott And Shake Keane

Poetry And Jazz In Concert - Record One

Shake Keane And The Boss Men

1963, 7", EP, Mono, Columbia,

Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Jeremy Robson With The Michael Garrick Trio And Joe Harriott And Shake Keane

Blues For The Lonely

1963, 7", EP, Mono, Columbia

The Johnny Scott Quintet, The Pat Smythe Trio* With Shake Keane, The Ray Premru Group*, The Alan Clare Trio*

Peter Burman's Jazz Tête-à-Tête

1962, LP, Comp, Mono, Columbia

Joe Harriott Quintet

Free Form & Abstract Revisited

2021, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + Comp, ezz-thetics,

Joe Harriott Quintet

Abstract / Southern Horizons / Free Form

2014, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Poll Winners Records,

Joe Harriott Quintet

Movement / High Spirits

2012, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + Comp, Vocalion

Joe Harriott Quintet

BBC Jazz For Moderns

Clarke-Boland Big Band

Historically Speaking

1993, 2xCD, Comp + Box, Dlx, Ltd, Num, Met, Emanon,

Big Band/Contemporary Jazz

Fresh Air Where? / Rolling Machine

1973, 7", Single, Spiegelei,

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Clarke Boland Big Band*

Out Of The Folk Bag

Joe Harriott Quintet

1965, LP, Album, Mono, Columbia

Shake Keane Quintet

In My Condition

1962, 7", EP, Mono, Columbia

Joe Harriott Quintet

Shake Keane & His Highlifers

Baionga / Shake's Ghana Blues

Shellac, 10", His Master's Voice

Joe Harriott Quintet

At The BBC 1961-1966 (The Rake’s Progress)

2022, CD, Album, Mono, Unofficial, Rhythm & Blues Records

APPEARANCES +

Charly Antolini Jazz-Power*

Road Runner "67 Years On The Road"

2023, CD, Album, Skinfire Records

Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra*

The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957 - 1974

光風 & Green Massive*

地下街の人びと

Carl Drewo Quartet*, Quintet*, Septet*

European Jazz Sounds

2017, CD, Album, BE! Jazz

Joe Harriott & Co Feat. John Dankworth & Tubby Hayes

2017, CD, Comp, Acrobat Music,

2017, 6xCD, Album, RM + Box, BE! Jazz,

Free Jazz/Modal/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Big Band

Soho Scene ’61 (Jazz Goes Mod)

Three Classic Albums

2015, 2xCD, Comp, Dlx, RM, Real Gone Music Company,

Modern At The German Jazz Festival 1966

Big Band/Contemporary Jazz/Bop/Cool Jazz

Best Of Electro Swing

2013, CD, Comp, Universal Music Group,

Charly Antolini

Different Strokes

2013, CD, Album, Comp, Skinfire Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Hard Bop/Fusion

Spiritual Jazz 3 - Europe (Modal, Esoteric And Ethereal Jazz From The European Underground 1963-1972)

Free Jazz/Modal

Girl On The Beach & KPM Library Gentle Sounds

2011, CD, Comp, RM, Vocalion,

The Joe Harriott Story

2011, 4xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Proper Records (2),

Free Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Hard Bop

Beatles Vs. Stones (British Pop Hits Go Groovy)

Appointment At Denmark St.

2009, CD, Comp, RM, Recur Records,

The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band*

Now Hear Our Meanin' - The Complete 1963 Recordings

Charly Antolini

2007, CD, Comp, RM, MPS Records, Universal Music Group,

Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz/Latin Jazz

Swing/Big Band/Jazz-Funk/Latin Jazz

2006, CD, Comp, RM, Verve Records,

Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Soul/Funk/Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz/Hard Bop/Fusion

Jazz Swings Pop

2006, CD, Comp, RM, Verve Records, Universal Music Group,

Soul-Jazz/Latin Jazz/Easy Listening/Big Band/Swing

Psychedelic Jazz (The Best Mindblowing Spaced-Out Jazz Grooves)

Johnny Keating*, The Keating Sound, Johnny Keating And 27 Men

The Keating Sound / Straight Ahead

2002, CD, Comp, RM, Vocalion,

2000, CD, Album, Jazz Academy Records,

The Cream Of The KPM Music Green Label Sessions

Alston Becket Cyrus*

The Best Of Becket Vol. 1

1999, CD, Comp, Cocoa Music,

* Uno : Dos : Tres +++ Latin-Jazz Grooves From Talkin' Verve *

1998, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Verve Records, Verve Records, Verve Records, Verve Records, Verve Records

Joe Harriott And John Mayer Double Quintet*

Indo-Jazz Fusions I & II

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band*

Three Latin Adventures

Big Band/Latin Jazz

Talkin' Jazz Volume 2 (More Themes From The Black Forest)

Soul-Jazz/Hard Bop/Fusion/Modal

The Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band*

Two Originals: All Blues/Sax No End

Big Band/Hard Bop

The Phung-Uh-Nung Sweet

1992, LP, Album, Straker's Records

The Greatest - Power In Numbers

The Best Of "The EMI Years"

1991, CD, Comp, EMI

Sweet Carnival / Don't Leave Me

1989, 12", EP, Charlo's Productions

1989, LP, Album, Ram Records (20),

1988, LP, M/Print, MRS (4), MRS Records,

Soca We Getting Down / We Mas

1988, 12", Urn Records, Urn Records

1988, LP, Album, Guy Records (3)

Ah Go Gee You Something

1988, 12", TCA Records

Soca Dance Party

King Short Shirt

25th Anniversary

1987, LP, Album, WB Records (2)

1987, 12", Hibiscus Records (3)

We Need More Love

1987, LP, Album, MRS (4),

I Wanna Make Love

1987, LP, MiniAlbum, Lem's Records,

1986, LP, Album, Charlie's Records, Charlie's Records,

The Action Too High

1986, 4x Vinyl Red Box and Vinyl, Box Set,

10th Anniversary

1985, LP, Album, Cocoa Records,

Come Leah We Dance

1985, 12", P'Tani Records

1984, LP, Album, B's Records,

1984, LP, Album, WIRL

1984, LP, Veebee Records, ,

King Of The World

Berry Lipman And His Orchestra*

That Sounds Well - The Best Of Berry Lipman

1981, 2xLP, Album, Comp, Selected Sound,

Soundtrack/Theme/Jazz-Funk/Easy Listening

Berry Lipman And His Orchestra*

The Most Beautiful Girls In The World

1974, Cass, Album, Quad, SQ,, BASF,

Soul-Jazz/Theme/Easy Listening/Big Band

Berry Lipman And His Orchestra*

The Most Beautiful Girls In The World

Soul-Jazz/Theme/Easy Listening/Big Band

Das Orchester Kurt Edelhagen*

1972, LP, Album, Westdeutscher Rundfunk,

Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland*, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Ebulient Roaring Screaming Big Band Sound

1972, 2xLP, Comp, Uni, BASF, MPS Records

J. Teupen*, J. A. Rettenbacher*

XX. Olympiade München 1972

Jazz Im Gottesdienst 1964 - 1967

1972, LP, Comp, Schwann AMS Studio,

Pop Rock/Jazz-Rock/Religious

1971, LP, Album, MPS Records

With Brian Lemon Trio

Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop

Kurt Edelhagen And His Orchestra*

Kurt Edelhagen Plays Jim Webb

Phase 4 Stereo Demonstration Record (Highlights From Recent Releases (Oct. '68 - March '69))

1969, LP, Comp, Promo, London Records,

Light Music/Musical/Samba/Big Band/Romantic/Psychedelic Rock

Hermann Gehlen, Giselher Klebe

Jazzmesse 1966 / 12-Ton-Messe 1966

1969, LP, Album, Schwann AMS Studio,

Twelve-tone/Religious/Soul-Jazz

Girl On The Beach

O.G. Blarr*, Ursula Terhoeven, Chor Der Neanderkirche Düsseldorf

Denn Er Hat Wunder Getan

1968, LP, Schwann AMS Studio

James Clarke + Sounds*

Man Of Our Times

1968, LP, Album, Fontana, Fontana, Fontana International

Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band*

Francy Boland & Kenny Clarke Famous Orchestra

The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band*

Latin Kaleidoscope

Afro-Cuban Jazz/Big Band/Latin Jazz

Charly Antolini

Soul-Jazz/Swing/Easy Listening

1967, LP, Album, Columbia, Columbia,

Hard Bop/Bop/Swing

Kurt Edelhagen Und Seine All-Star-Band* • Leo Wright • Rolf Und Joachim Kühn Quartet*

1967, Acetate, LP, Neuphone Records

Joe Harriott - John Mayer Double Quintet*

Indo-Jazz Fusions

The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band*

Carl Drevo* Und Die Clarke-Boland Big Band*

Swing, Waltz, Swing

Ambrose Campbell*

High Life Today

Love And Harp A La Latin

Johnny Keating And His Orchestra*

The Keating Sound

The Ken Jones Orchestra* / The Elizabethan Consort Of Viols* / Elaine Delmar / Geoffrey Emmott's Recorder Consort

Strike Up The Bard

The Joe Harriott Quintet*

The Jazz Story Volume 5 (Rare Records Of The Men And The Music: Modern And Free Form)

Big Band/Bop/Free Jazz/Cool Jazz

The Joe Harriott Quintet*

Vic Lewis And His Bossa Nova All Stars*

Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova At Home And Away

Back To The Barn

1962, 7", EP, Columbia

The Shake Keane Fivetet*

The Nursery Blues / Ruanda

Costanzo* Plus Tubbs*

Equation In Rhythm

The Joe Harriott Quintet*

A Guy Called Joe

1961, 7", EP, Mono, Columbia,

Joe Harriott Quintet And Sextet*

Southern Horizons

Marie Bryant / "Shake" Keane With The Highlifers*

Banana Woman / Creole Honey

1954, Shellac, 10", Single, Lyragon

Marie Bryant / "Shake" Keane With The Highlifers*

Gumbo Lay Lay / Trumpet Highlife

1954, Shellac, 10", Lyragon,

Calypso/Highlife

Stereo Dancing 2

LP, Comp, S/Edition, Decca

Kai Warner, Kurt Edelhagen, Max Greger

Big-Band In Hifi-Stereo

2xLP, Comp, Polydor,

Big Bands In Stereo 2: Ein Sound-Festival Der Grossen Tanzorchester

LP, Comp, Decca

2xLP, Comp, Polydor, Polydor, Polydor,

12", Straker's Records,

Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin' (Black Music In Britain In The Sixties)

2022, 4xCD, Comp + Box, Strawberry (26),

Beat/Mod/Reggae/Ska/Soul

I Had The Craziest Dream: Modern Jazz And Hard-Bop In Post War London, Vol. 2

I Had The Craziest Dream: Modern Jazz And Hard-Bop In Post War London, Vol. 3

London Is The Place For Me 5 (Latin, Jazz, Calypso & Highlife From Young Black London)

2013, 2xLP, Comp, Gat, Honest Jon's Records

London Is The Place For Me (African Dreams, Calypso, The Piccadilly High Life)

2013, 2xCD, Comp, Honest Jon's Records

London Is The Place For Me (Afro-Cubism, Calypso, Highlife, Mento, Jazz)

Refined Lard (A Trunk Records Sampler)

2012, CD, Smplr, Trunk Records,

Soundtrack/Field Recording/Spoken Word/Easy Listening

Space Party Music

2012, 24xFile, WAV, Comp, The Lost Noises Office

Calypso Fever -From Trinidad To London-

2010, CD, Comp, Ska In The World Records

Roaring Blue (20 Groovy Instrumentals From The '60s & '70s - Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Vol. 3)

2009, CD, Comp, Psychic Circle,

Lounge/Pop Rock/Psychedelic/Mod

London Is The Place For Me 4: African Dreams And The Piccadilly High Life

2006, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

2002, CD, Mixed, Universal Music,

Breakbeat/Jazz-Funk/Jazzdance/Synth-pop

Dig It! The Sound Of Phase 4 Stereo

1996, CD, Comp, Deram,

1996, CD, LKJ Records

Songwriting Legends: Burt Bacharach

1992, CD, Comp, Eclipse (2)

Caribbean Connections, Black Music In Britain In The Early 1950's, Volume 2

1987, LP, Comp, New Cross Records

Stereo À La Carte

1978, 2xLP, Comp, Gat, Decca,

Das Ist Musik - 20 Hi-Fi Hits

1976, LP, Comp, Decca,

Stereo À La Carte 3

Music For The Motorway Mark III

1970, 8-Track Cartridge,

Stereo À La Carte 2

Soul-Jazz/Easy Listening

Klingende Post Herbst 1968

10", Mono, His Master's Voice, His Master's Voice

Stereo Hi-Fi Sound

3xLP + Box, Decca

Tanzmusik In Super-Stereo

Brit-Pop Instrumentals Volume 11

2012, 2xCDr, Comp, Unofficial, Stylus Records (2),

Stan Getz Quartet

Live At Sir Morgan's Cove 1973

2011, 2xCD, Unofficial, Gambit Records,