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His career also includes stints with The Lloyd Price Orchestra, The Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and The Woody Herman Orchestra. Foster played with and arranged for Benny Goodman, Elvin Jones, George Coleman, Joe Farrell, Duke Pearson, Johnny Richards, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and the Thad Jones–Mel Lewis big band. Foster started arranginging while still in high school, and attended Wilberforce University before moving to Detriot to pursue a career in music. Within a year, he was playing in a local dance band.

Frank Benjamin Foster III was born into Cincinnati’s African-American middle class and began his musical studies on piano, later picking up the clarinet and the alto saxophone. Foster earned his place in jazz history with tunes like “Shiny Stockings”, “Down for the Count”, “Blues Backstage”, “Back to the Apple”, “Discommotion”, and “Blues in Hoss Flat”. He composed, arranged, and played for the Basie band following his service in the Korean War.

Saxophonist, composer and arranger Frank Foster (1928-2011) helped shape the sound of the New Testament edition of the Count Basie Orchestra, from 1953 to 1964.

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