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Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame
1995 Candidates
Buck Powell
Played in the band and graduated from Catholic High School in 1982. He then entered the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he became the first Jazz Studies graduate. He began to earn many of his playing credits during his student days. However, realizing the low demand for high performance saxophonists in Little Rock, Arkansas, he began to play more commonly used instruments like drums, bass and piano.
Buck Powell perfected his use of non-reed instruments to an uncommonly high level. He is not a "doubler" but a true multi-instrumentalist - he plays each instrument with the same degree of skill and musical wisdom. Buck Powell cites his influences as "everybody", from Dexter Gordon to Boots Randolph and beyond.
He has played with a variety of nationally known artists, entertainers, and groups including Nat Adderley, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Witherspoon, Eddie Harris, Pharoah Sanders, James Williams, Mel Rhyne, Herb Ellis, Jack Morgan, Bob Hope, Rich Little, Steve Lawrence and Edye Gorme, Rosemary Clooney, the Four Tops, The Fifth Dimension, Temptations, Richard Boone and Ringling Brothers. For several years, Powell has taught saxophone and directed the Jazz Messengers in the Music Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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