Gene Dinwiddie
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Gene Dinwiddie (born Charles Eugene Dinwiddie;[1] September 19, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States – January 11, 2002 in La Puente, Los Angeles, California, aged 65[2]), was an American blues saxophonist, who is best known as a member of the Butterfield Blues Band.
Dinwiddie had played since the 1950s in both jazz and blues until, in 1967, the Butterfield Blues Band added a horn section. In this he remained until the band broke up in 1971, and afterwards he was still a member of the Butterfield Band spinoff group, Full Moon.
It also was during the 1960s that he was a member of the James Cotton Blues Band and worked in the 1970s as a session musician, amongst other musicians for, B. B. King, Paul Butterfield, Gregg Allman, Melissa Manchester and Jackie Lomax. In the 1990s, his work as a session musician continued. He can be heard, for example, on Etta James' Stickin' to My Guns (1990).
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- Gene Dinwiddie on Allmusic
- Gene Dinwiddie discography at Discogs
- A power stronger than itself: the AACM and American experimental music By George Lewis
- 1936 births
- 2002 deaths
- American blues saxophonists
- American session musicians
- Musicians from Louisville, Kentucky
- 20th-century American musicians
- Blues musicians from Kentucky
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band members
- Louisville, Kentucky stubs