Skeeter Best (20 Nov 1914 - 27 May 1985)
Male Person - United States
On Recordings (50)
Instruments
- Mean to Me 6:30 The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) guitar
- Dizzy Meets Sonny 7:59 The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) guitar
- Bright Blues 6:13 Milt Jackson (1956) guitar
- Tour de Force 11:39 The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) guitar
- Down by the Riverside ?:?? Mahalia Jackson with The Falls-Jones Ensemble (1956) guitar
- How High the Moon 6:13 Milt Jackson (1956) guitar
- Blues for Bird 9:08 The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) guitar
- Ballad Medley: Old Folks / What's New / How Deep Is the Ocean? 7:16 The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) guitar
- Hello 3:47 Milt Jackson (1956) guitar
- How Long Blues 9:16 Ray Charles & Milt Jackson (1958) guitar
- Cosmic Ray 5:23 Ray Charles & Milt Jackson (1958) guitar
- Soul Brothers 9:34 Ray Charles & Milt Jackson (1958) guitar
- Blue Funk 8:07 Ray Charles & Milt Jackson (1958) guitar
- Yes Sir, That’s My Baby 4:23 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- Where or When 3:41 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- I Love Paris (Album Version) 4:01 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- Something to Remember You By 3:45 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- Don’t Go to Strangers 3:51 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- On the Street Where You Live 3:45 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- Bye Bye Blackbird 3:16 Etta Jones (1960) guitar
- Right Now (mono mix) 2:23 Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo (27 Feb 1961) guitar
- You've Got Your Troubles 4:37 Freddie Roach (1967) guitar
- Ballad Medley: Old Folks / What's New? / How Deep Is the Ocean? 7:14 The Modern Jazz Sextet (01 Sep 1986) guitar
- Sweet and Lovely 4:19 Ike Quebec (1988) guitar
- Buzzard Lope 6:18 Ike Quebec (1988) guitar
- Zonky 4:35 Ike Quebec (1988) guitar
- Later for the Rock 4:37 Ike Quebec (1988) guitar
- The Grapevine 2:28 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (1991) guitar
- Lord Knows I Tried 2:38 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (1991) guitar
- Old Spice (alternate take) 2:24 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (1991) guitar
- Backslider's Ball 3:00 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (1991) guitar
- Heavy Sugar 2:34 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (1991) guitar
- Fine and Mellow 2:44 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- You Can't Escape From Me 3:28 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Uptown Shuffle 2:50 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You 3:00 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Saboo 3:10 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Baltimore Bounce 3:18 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- More Than You Know 3:17 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Satan Does the Rhumba 3:04 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Rehearsal in Love 3:28 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (1992) guitar
- Mister Man 3:32 Lucky Thompson (1993) guitar
- Dancing Sunbeam 3:09 Lucky Thompson (1993) guitar
- Little Tenderfoot 2:49 Lucky Thompson (1993) guitar
- Tricotism 4:34 Lucky Thompson (1993) guitar
- The Plain but the Simple Truth 4:45 Lucky Thompson (1993) guitar
- She’ll Always Remember 2:31 Earl Hines and His Orchestra (1996) guitar
- Say You Don't Mean It 2:31 Jimmy Rushing (1997) guitar
- 'Deed I Do 2:50 Jimmy Rushing (1997) guitar
- Did You Ever 3:29 Jimmy Rushing (1997) guitar
Credited as (2)
- The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Skeeter Best, Percy Heath & Charlie Persip
- The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Skeeter Best, Percy Heath, Charlie Persip
Links (11)
Other Databases
- https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13982462x
- https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/304206
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93016300
- https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93016300
- http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tk2tkf
- https://d-nb.info/gnd/134760662