1. Kai Chresten Winding was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer.
12 Facts About Kai Winding
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Kai Winding is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist JJ Johnson.
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Kai Winding's father, Ove Winding was a naturalized US citizen, thus Kai, his mother and sisters, though born abroad were already US citizens.
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Kai Winding participated in Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, appearing on four of the twelve tracks, while JJ Johnson appeared on the other eight, having participated on the other two sessions.
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In 1954, at the urging of producer Ozzie Cadena, Kai Winding began a long association with Johnson, recording trombone duets for Savoy Records, then Columbia.
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Kai Winding composed and arranged many of the works he and Johnson recorded.
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Kai Winding released the first version of "Time Is On My Side" in 1963 before it was recorded by Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones.
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Kai Winding's best selling recording from this period is "More," the theme from the movie Mondo Cane, which reached number 8 in the Billboard Hot 100 and remained his only entry here.
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Kai Winding experimented with ensembles again, recorded solo albums, and one album of country music with the Anita Kerr Singers.
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Kai Winding was a member of the all-star jazz group Giants of Jazz in 1971.
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Kai Winding's son, Jai Winding, is a keyboardist who has worked as a session musician, writer and producer in Los Angeles.
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Kai Winding was taken to a hospital because of a reoccurring brain disease that he found out about while in Yonkers, New York, and later died from complications there sometime in 1983.