Ernie Royal

Ernest Andrew Royal (June 2, 1921 in Los Angeles, California – March 16, 1983 in New York City) was a jazz trumpeter. His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording The Genius of Ray Charles.

Career He began in Los Angeles as a member of Les Hite's Orchestra in 1937. In the following 20 years he would work with Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Wardell Gray, Stan Kenton and recording as a member of the Charles Mingus Octet, with Teo Macero, John Lewis and Kenny Clarke, among others, in 1953. He led ten albums, most of them recorded in Paris. In 1957 he became a staff musician for the American Broadcasting Company. He went on to play in The Tonight Show Band and can be heard on the Miles Davis albums Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960).

Death A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Royal died of cancer at age 61 at Mount Sinai Hospital on March 16, 1983.

Discography 1953: Portraits on Standards, The Kenton Era – Stan Kenton 1954: Afro, Dizzy and Strings – Dizzy Gillespie 1955: Jazz Recital – Dizzy Gillespie 1955: Accent on Tenor Sax – Coleman Hawkins 1955: Another One – Oscar Pettiford 1955: Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars – Jimmy Cleveland 1955: Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones – Sonny Stitt 1955: Top Brass – Ernie Wilkins 1956: The Hawk in Hi Fi – Coleman Hawkins 1956: In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Adderley 1956: The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi – Oscar Pettiford 1956: The Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1956) – Manny Albam-Ernie Wilkins and their Orchestra 1956: Salute to Satch – Joe Newman 1957: Miles Ahead – Miles Davis 1957: Phineas Newborn, Jr. Plays Harold Arlen's Music from Jamaica – Phineas Newborn, Jr. 1957: My Fair Lady Loves Jazz – Billy Taylor 1958: New Bottle Old Wine – Gil Evans 1958: Porgy and Bess – Miles Davis 1958: A Map of Jimmy Cleveland – Jimmy Cleveland 1958: Brass & Trio – Sonny Rollins 1958: Porgy & Bess Revisited – Stewart-Williams & Co. 1959: Brass Shout – Art Farmer 1959: Late Date with Ruth Brown – Ruth Brown 1959: The Genius of Ray Charles – Ray Charles 1959: The Birth of a Band!, The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones 1959: You and Lee – Lee Konitz 1959: Something to Swing About – Carmen McRae 1959: Portrait of the Artist – Bob Brookmeyer 1960: Gillespiana – Dizzy Gillespie 1960: Sister Salvation – Slide Hampton 1960: Sketches of Spain – Miles Davis 1960: Big Joe Rides Again – Big Joe Turner 1961: Perceptions – Dizzy Gillespie 1961: Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) – Mundell Lowe 1961: White Gardenia – Johnny Griffin 1962: The Soul of Hollywood – Junior Mance 1962: Cabin in the Sky – Curtis Fuller 1962: Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra – Art Farmer 1962: Soul Street – Jimmy Forrest 1962: Big Bags – Milt Jackson 1962: The Complete Town Hall Concert – Charles Mingus 1962: On My Way & Shoutin' Again!– Count Basie 1963: Several Shades of Jade – Cal Tjader 1963: For Members Only – Shirley Scott 1963: Latin Fever – Herbie Mann 1964: New Fantasy – Lalo Schifrin 1964: Rough House Blues – Lou Donaldson 1964: My Kinda Groove – Herbie Mann 1964: The Cat – Jimmy Smith 1964: J.J.! – J. J. Johnson 1964: Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini – Quincy Jones 1965: Quincy Plays for Pussycats – Quincy Jones 1965: Once a Thief and Other Themes – Lalo Schifrin 1965: Ray Brown / Milt Jackson – Ray Brown and Milt Jackson 1965: Broadway Soul – Sonny Stitt 1965: With Respect to Nat – Oscar Peterson 1965: Latin Mann – Herbie Mann 1965: Broadway Express – J. J. Johnson 1966: Happenings – Hank Jones and Oliver Nelson 1966: Encyclopedia of Jazz – Oliver Nelson 1966: The Sound of Feeling – Oliver Nelson 1966: Got My Mojo Workin' and Hoochie Coochie Man – Jimmy Smith 1966: Brass on Fire and The Soul of the City – Manny Albam 1966: Our Mann Flute – Herbie Mann 1966: Spanish Rice – Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill 1966: Blue Notes – Johnny Hodges 1967: Glory of Love – Herbie Mann 1967: Half a Sixpence – Count Basie 1967: Don't Sleep in the Subway – Johnny Hodges 1967: The Board of Directors – Count Basie with The Mills Brothers 1967: Hip Vibrations – Cal Tjader 1968: Blues – The Common Ground – Kenny Burrell 1968: Silver Cycles – Eddie Harris 1968: Blues – The Common Ground – Kenny Burrell 1969: Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes – Shirley Scott 1969: The Many Facets of David Newman – David Newman 1969: The Soul Explosion – Illinois Jacquet 1969: Soul '69 – Aretha Franklin 1969: Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul – Hank Crawford 1970: Houston Express – Houston Person 1970: Louis Armstrong and His Friends − Louis Armstrong 1970: 3 Shades of Blue – Johnny Hodges 1970: The Leon Thomas Album – Leon Thomas 1971: My Way – Gene Ammons 1971: Blues in Orbit – Gil Evans 1971: What's Going On – Johnny "Hammond" Smith 1972: Soul Is... Pretty Purdie – Bernard Purdie 1972: Joy of Cookin' – Joe Thomas 1972: Guess Who – B. B. King 1972: Akilah! – Melvin Sparks 1972: Sweet Buns & Barbeque – Houston Person 1973: Tanjah – Randy Weston 1973: The Weapon – David Newman 1973: Simba – O'Donel Levy 1974: New Groove – Groove Holmes 1974: 10 Years Hence – Yusef Lateef 1974: Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags – Oliver Nelson 1975: There Comes a Time – Gil Evans 1977: Color as a Way of Life – Lou Donaldson 1978: Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 – Gil Evans