Al Aarons

One of the many sturdy jazz players from the Pittsburgh scene, Albert Aarons was a fixture in Count Basie's band, a sideman with jazz heavyweights such as vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons, and was one of the older dudes in the studio for later jazz-funk fusion projects such as School Days by Stanley Clarke. He began studying music in his hometown in the late '40s, and by ...more