Jimmy Forrest

Biography

American tenor saxophonist from St. Louis, a big band sideman with *Andy Kirk* and *Duke Ellington* who became a rhythm and blues star in his own right. Jimmy Forrest's 'Night Train' topped the rhythm and blues chart for seven weeks in 1952. He went on to record soul jazz for #Prestige Records# and spent much of the 1970s as a featured soloist in the *Count Basie* Orchestra, before settling in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he died in 1980.