Clint Houston

Clinton Joseph Houston (June 24, 1946, in New Orleans – June 7, 2000) was an American jazz double-bassist.^[1]

Houston played with George Cables and Lenny White in the house band at Slug's, a club in New York City, then played with Nina Simone (1969), Roy Haynes (1969–70), Sonny Greenwich and Don Thompson (1970),^[2] Roy Ayers (1971–73), Charles Tolliver (1973–75), Stan Getz (1975–77), and Woody Shaw (1977–79). In 1978 he began collaborating with Joanne Brackeen, working with her through 1986; he also played with Pepper Adams (1983), Slide Hampton (1981), Frank Foster (1984–86), and Roland Hanna (1986).

Discography

As leader

• Watership Down (Storyville Records, 1978) with John Abercrombie, Joanne Brackeen, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Al Foster
• Inside the Plain of the Elliptic (Timeless Records, 1979) with Rubens Bassini, Ryo Kawasaki, Joanne Brackeen

As sideman

With Sonny Greenwich

• The Old Man and the Child (Sackville Records, 1970)

With John Hicks

• Hells Bells (Strata-East, 1975 [1980])

With Azar Lawrence

• Bridge into the New Age (Prestige, 1974)

With John Scofield

• East Meets West (1977)

With Woody Shaw

• Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary, 1970)
• Rosewood (Columbia, 1977)
• Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (Columbia, 1978)
• Woody III (Columbia, 1979)

With Charles Tolliver

• Live in Tokyo (1973, Strata-East)
• Impact (Strata-East, 1975)

References

1. Allmusic biography
2. Sackville LP, CBC - C 2002-2