Jeffrey, Paul 1933-....

Saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator professionally active in music since the 1950s. Faculty member in Duke University's music department. Resident of Durham (Durham Co.), N.C.

Paul Jeffrey is a jazz saxophonist. Thelonious Monk (born Rocky Mount, N.C., 10 Oct 1917; died Englewood, N.J., 17 Feb 1982) was an innovative and highly influential jazz pianist and composer.

Paul Jeffrey was a saxophonist who performed as a member of Thelonious Monk's band from 1970 to 1976.

Thelonious Monk (born Rocky Mount, N.C., 10 Oct 1917; died Englewood, N.J., 17 Feb 1982) was an innovative and highly influential jazz pianist and composer. After working as house pianist at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, Monk went on to perform and record with musicians including Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others. Monk began recording as a leader of his own groups in 1947, working with Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside, and Columbia Records. His final studio recording session took place in 1971, and his final public concert was in 1976. He spent his remaining years largely retired from public life, living as a guest in the home of his long-standing patron Nica de Koenigswarter. Monk passed away in 1982 due to complications from a stroke.

Paul H. Jeffrey (b. April 8, 1933) is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Ithaca College in 1955, Jeffrey went on to pursue a successful professional music career. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jeffrey toured the U.S. with blues and jazz musicians including Wynonie Harris, B.B. King, Illinois Jacquet, and Elmo Hope. He then spent much of the 1960s working with Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, the Count Basie Orchestra, and others, while also releasing several recordings as a leader beginning in 1968. Jeffrey enjoyed lasting associations with both Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus for much of the 1970s, working as a saxophonist and arranger for many of their recordings during that time.

Beginning in the 1970s, Jeffrey also enjoyed a prolific career in education, serving on the music faculties at the University of Hartford, Rutgers University, Jersey City State College, and others. In 1983, he joined the Duke University music faculty as Artist in Residence and Director of Jazz Studies, a position he held until his retirement in 2003. Jeffrey is currently Professor of the Practice Emeritus in Duke University's Department of Music.