Flip Phillips. At Dick Gibson´s Jazz Party, Colorado Springs, 1975

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Flip Phillips and Bob Wilber at Dick Gibson´s Jazz Party, Colorado Springs, Denver, 1975.

Flip Phillips (by name Joseph Edward Filippelli) was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player. Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and Wingy Manone. He was a regular soloist for the Woody Herman band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with Jazz at the Philharmonic. He retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again, and performing into his 80s.

b. March 26, 1915 in New York.
d. August 17, 2001 in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

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