SIL AUSTIN

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Born: September 17, 1929 in Dunnellon, Florida Died: September 1, 2001 in Riverdale, Georgia

Sil Austin had his biggest successes in an overtly commercial rather than jazz vein, but he regarded great jazz saxophonists like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Sonny Stitt as his major influences.

He was a great showman on stage, and had a big, ripe, blues-inflected tenor sound which was ideally adapted to hard-driving rhythm and blues, but was also highly persuasive on ballads.

He was born Sylvester Austin, and taught himself to play as a 12 year old. He won the Ted Mack Amateur Hour in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1945, playing "Danny Boy". His performance brought him a contract with Mercury Records, and he moved to New York, where he studied for a time at the Juilliard School of Music.

He played with Roy Eldridge briefly, and with Tiny Bradshaw in 1952-54, before setting up
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SIL AUSTIN Slow Walk Rock album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Slow Walk Rock
RnB 1957
SIL AUSTIN Everything's Shakin' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Everything's Shakin'
RnB 1958
SIL AUSTIN Battle Royal! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Battle Royal!
Blues 1958
SIL AUSTIN Sil Austin's Danny Boy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil Austin's Danny Boy
RnB 1959
SIL AUSTIN Sil Austin Plays Pretty For The People album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil Austin Plays Pretty For The People
Exotica 1959
SIL AUSTIN ...Soft, Plaintive and Moody! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
...Soft, Plaintive and Moody!
Exotica 1960
SIL AUSTIN Golden Saxophone Hits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Golden Saxophone Hits
Exotica 1961
SIL AUSTIN Sil Austin With Strings And Choir Plays Folk Songs album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil Austin With Strings And Choir Plays Folk Songs
Exotica 1963
SIL AUSTIN Plays Pretty Melodies Of The World album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Plays Pretty Melodies Of The World
Exotica 1964
SIL AUSTIN Sil Austin In Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil Austin In Blues
RnB 1966
SIL AUSTIN Sil Austin Plays Pretty For The People Again album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil Austin Plays Pretty For The People Again
RnB 1967
SIL AUSTIN Again Plays Pretty album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Again Plays Pretty
RnB 1968
SIL AUSTIN Mona Liza's Smile / Tenor Sax In Ecstasy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mona Liza's Smile / Tenor Sax In Ecstasy
Exotica 1968
SIL AUSTIN Honey Sax album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Honey Sax
RnB 1969
SIL AUSTIN Soft Soul With Strings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Soft Soul With Strings
Exotica 1970
SIL AUSTIN Sil And The Silver Screen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sil And The Silver Screen
RnB 1970
SIL AUSTIN 男の港唄 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
男の港唄
RnB 1971
SIL AUSTIN Tenor Sax album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tenor Sax
RnB 1973

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SIL AUSTIN シル・オースチンのすべて / Encore Of The Golden Hits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
シル・オースチンのすべて / Encore Of The Golden Hits
RnB 1962
SIL AUSTIN Great Sax album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Great Sax
Exotica 1995
SIL AUSTIN Best of album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Best of
Exotica 1999
SIL AUSTIN Swingsation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Swingsation
RnB 1999

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