1. Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
11 Facts About Harold Vick
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Harold Vick was born on April 3,1936, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
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Harold Vick worked as a sideman with Jack McDuff from 1960 to 1964, and with other organists such as Jimmy McGriff, Big John Patton, and Larry Young.
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Harold Vick appeared with Dizzy Gillespie at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival.
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Harold Vick then worked for around 5 years with soul artists, from 1969 to 1970 with King Curtis, and from 1970 to 1974 with Aretha Franklin.
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Harold Vick played in Jack DeJohnette's jazz-rock band Compost from 1971 to 1973, recording with them in 1972.
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Harold Vick played with Nat Adderley, Mercer Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Taylor, Horace Silver, and Gene Ammons.
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Harold Vick played for a number of stage productions during the 1980s.
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Harold Vick appeared in the films Stardust Memories and The Cotton Club, in which he played a musician.
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Harold Vick was cast for the Spike Lee film School Daze, and undertook work for the soundtracks for a number of other films.
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Harold Vick died at his Manhattan home of another heart attack on November 13,1987.