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Kai Chresten Winding (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell;Template:Efn May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983)<ref name="AMG">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the theme from the movie Mondo Cane, reached in 1963 number 8 in the Billboard Hot 100 and remained his only entry here.

BiographyEdit

Winding was born in Aarhus, Denmark.<ref name="AMG"/> His father, Ove Winding was a naturalized U.S. citizen, thus Kai, his mother and sisters, though born abroad were already U.S. citizens. In September 1934, his mother, Jenny Winding, moved Kai and his two sisters, Ann and Alice. Kai graduated in 1940 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and that same year began his career as a professional trombonist with Shorty Allen's band. Subsequently, he played with Sonny Dunham and Alvino Rey,<ref name="AMG"/> until he entered the United States Coast Guard during World War II.

After the war, Winding was a member of Benny Goodman's orchestra, then Stan Kenton's.<ref name="AMG"/> He participated in Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949,<ref name="LarkinJazz">Template:Cite book</ref> appearing on four of the twelve tracks, while J. J. Johnson appeared on the other eight, having participated on the other two sessions.

In 1954, at the urging of producer Ozzie Cadena, Winding began a long association with Johnson,<ref name="AMG"/> recording trombone duets for Savoy Records, then Columbia. He experimented with instruments in brass ensembles. The album Jay & Kai + 6 (1956) featured a trombone octet and the trombonium. He composed and arranged many of the works he and Johnson recorded.

During the 1960s, Winding began an association with Verve Records and producer Creed Taylor. He released the first version of "Time Is On My Side" in 1963 before it was recorded by Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones. His 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.<ref>Kai Winding Songs, chartsurfer.de</ref> Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman, "More" featured what is probably the first appearance of the French electronic music instrument the ondioline on an American recording. Although Winding was credited with playing the ondioline, guitarist Vinnie Bell, who worked on the session, claimed that it was played by Jean-Jacques Perrey, a pioneer of electronic music. Winding experimented with ensembles again, recorded solo albums, and one album of country music with the Anita Kerr Singers. He followed Creed Taylor to A&M/CTI and made more albums with J. J. Johnson. He was a member of the all-star jazz group Giants of Jazz in 1971.<ref name="AMG"/>

His son, Jai Winding, is a keyboardist who has worked as a session musician, writer and producer in Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Unreliable source

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

DiscographyEdit

As leader/co-leaderEdit

With J. J. Johnson

As sidemanEdit

With Ralph Burns and Leonard Feather

With Quincy Jones

With Stan Kenton

With King Pleasure

  • 1954 King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings
  • 1954 The Original Moody's Mood
  • 1955 King Pleasure

With Pete Rugolo

With Zoot Sims

  • 1949 The Brothers
  • 1952 Zoot Sims All Stars
  • 1962 Good Old Zoot

With Sarah Vaughan

  • 1955 In the Land of Hi-Fi
  • 1957 The George Gershwin Songbook, Vol. 1
  • 1958 The Rodgers & Hart Songbook
  • 1965 Viva! Vaughan

With others

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