Gene Ramey

A very valuable bassist closely associated with the Kansas City jazz scene, Gene Ramey's walking bass style and fairly basic but swinging solos were an asset to a countless number of sessions for several decades. Ramey was originally a trumpeter when he played with his college band, switched to sousaphone (working with George Corley's Royal Aces, the Moonlight Serenaders and Terrence Holder) and ...more