Person
ISNI: 
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Name: 
Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (American drummer)
Billy Higgins (americký bubeník)
Billy Higgins (Amerikaans jazzmuzikant (1936-2001))
Billy Higgins (amerikansk musikar)
Billy Higgins (amerikansk musiker)
Billy Higgins (batterista statunitense)
Billy Higgins (batteur américain)
Billy Higgins (US-amerikanischer Jazz-Schlagzeuger)
Higgins, Bill
Higgins, Billy
Билли Хиггинс
ビリー・ヒギンス
Dates: 
1936-2001
Creation class: 
Computer file
Language material
musical release
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
performer
Related names: 
Billy Higgins Quintet (isMemberOf)
Blackwell, Ed (co-performer)
Bley, Paul (co-performer)
Blue Note (Firm) (isAffiliatedWith)
Brashear, Oscar (co-performer)
Byron, Don (co-performer)
Capitol Records Inc
Carroll, Baikida (co-performer)
Cedar Walton quartet
Cedar Walton Quartet (isMemberOf)
Cedar Walton quartet (see also from)
Cedar Walton quintet (see also from)
Cedar Walton trio
Cedar Walton trio (see also from)
Chambers, Paul (co-performer)
Chancey, Vincent (co-performer)
Charles Lloyd quartet
Charles Lloyd quartet 1999-.... (see also from)
Cherry, Don (co-performer)
Clifford Jordan Quartet (isMemberOf)
Coleman, George (co-performer)
Coleman, Ornette (co-performer)
Coleman, Steve (co-performer)
Coltrane, John (co-performer)
Cranshaw, Bob (1932-)
Dara, Olu (co-performer)
David Murray Big Band (isMemberOf)
Davis, Steve (co-performer)
EMI music France
Freeman, Russ (co-performer)
Garland, Red (co-performer)
Garrison, Jimmy (co-performer)
George Coleman Quartet (isMemberOf)
Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990)
Haden, Charlie (1937-...)
Haden, Charlie (co-performer)
Hancock, Herbie (1940-...)
Harmonia mundi France
Harris, Craig (co-performer)
Harris, Eddie (co-performer)
Haynes, Graham (co-performer)
Haynes, Roy (co-performer)
Henry, Khalil (co-performer)
Herbie Hancock quartet 1964-1985 (see also from)
Herbie Hancock quintet 1962 (see also from)
Higgins, Patience (co-performer)
Hopkins, Fred (co-performer)
Izenzon, David (co-performer)
Jackie McLean quartet 1962-1999 (see also from)
Jackie McLean quintet 1961-1965 (see also from)
John Coltrane Quartet (isMemberOf)
Jones, Elvin (co-performer)
Jones, Sam (co-performer)
Jordan, Clifford (co-performer)
Korz, Mickael (co-performer)
Kuhn, Steve (co-performer)
Lacy, Frank (co-performer)
LaFaro, Scott (co-performer)
Land, Harold (co-performer)
Mabern, Harold (co-performer)
Mantilla, Ray (co-performer)
Mondragon, Joe (co-performer)
Morgan, Lee (1938-1972)
Morris, Lawrence D. “Butch” (co-performer)
Murray, David (co-performer)
Nasser, Jamil (co-performer)
Oleszkiewicz, Darek (1963- ))
Ornette Coleman Double Quartet (isRelatedTo)
Ornette Coleman quartet
Ornette Coleman quartet (see also from)
Ornette Coleman Quintet (isMemberOf)
Patterson, Alfred (co-performer)
Paul Bley quintet (see also from)
Paul Bley Quintet Affiliation (see also from)
Purcell, John (co-performer)
Quartet West 1986-1988 (see also from)
Ragin, Hugh (co-performer)
Redman, Dewey (co-performer)
Russ Freeman Trio (isMemberOf)
Siddik, Rasul (co-performer)
Smith, Sonelius (co-performer)
Spaulding, James (co-performer)
Stewart, Bob (co-performer)
Tabbal, Tani (co-performer)
Taylor, Art (co-performer)
Teddy Edwards quartet
The Ornette Coleman Quartet (isMemberOf)
The Pentagon (isMemberOf)
Timeless All Stars
Timeless All Stars (see also from)
Tyner, McCoy (co-performer)
Vinnegar, Leroy (1928-1999)
Walton, Cedar (1934-...)
Walton, Cedar (1934-2013)
Walton, Cedar (co-performer)
Warren, Butch (1939-...)
Williams, David
Williams, David (co-performer)
Zoller, James (co-performer)
Titles: 
204
¾ for Peace
5/4 Thing
52nd Street Theme
6 M's
8/4 Beat
Afreaka
African Marketplace
African Songbird
After Mr. Teng
Afternoon in Paris
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Airegin
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
All Blues
All Members
All of Me
All the Way
Allen’s Alley
Alone and I
Alone Together
Along Came Betty
Alpha
American in Paris, An
American Splendor
Amsterdam After Dark
Angel Voice
Anthropology
Anti Climax
Anything Goes
Apache Dance
Aperitif, An
Arabia
Art Deco
Art's Opus #2
As Long as There's Music
Au Privave
Autumn in New York
Autumn Leaves
Avalon
Babe's Blues
Babes in Arms
Band Wagon, The
Barbados
Bay City
Beale Street
Bearcat
Beautiful Love
Bechet’s Bounce
Bell Bottoms
Bells Are Ringing
Bemsha Swing
Berkshire Blues
Bésame mucho
Beverly
Big Foot
Big J
Big Meeting
Billie’s Bounce
Billy's Smile
Bird Food
Birk's Works
Bitter Sweet
Bittersweet
Black, Brown, and Beige
Black Circle
Black Sabbath
Blackjack
blessing (4 min 45 s)
Blessing, The
Blood Count
Blow Top Blues
Blue Bossa
Blue Monk
Blue ’n’ Boogie
Blue Train
Blues for Blanche
Blues for C.M.
Blues for Liebestraum
Blues for Pat
Blues in the Closet
Blues March
Blues Mind Matter
Blues Up and Down
Bluesville
Body and Soul
Bolivia
Book's Bossa
Born to Be Blue
Born to Dance
Boss Bossa
Bossa for Baby
Boy,what a night (7 min 32 s)
Boys From Syracuse, The
Break Through, The
Bremond's Blues
Bridgework
Broadway
Broken Shadows
But Beautiful
Bye Bye Blackbird
Byrdlike
C.T.A.
Ca-Lee-So
Cal Massey
Calamity Jane
Calling, The
Can’t Get Started, I
Can’t Stop Lovin’ You, I
Candlelight
Caramba (12 min 23 s)
Casablanca
Cedar's Blues
Cell walk for celeste
Centerpiece
Central Park West
Ceora
Chain Reaction
Change of the Century
Cheese Cake
Cheryl
Child Is Born, A
Chippie (5 min 37 s)
Chocolat
Chronology (6 min 05 s)
Cindy’s Main Mood
Circle With a Hole in the Middle, The
Clockwise
Close Enough for Love
Come to Me
Compute
Con Alma
Conception
Confirmation
Congeniality
Conrad (11 min 15 s)
Constellation
Cornbread (9 min)
Country Town Blues
Crazeology
Crazy for You
Crossroads
Cry of My People, The
Cryin' Blues
Cute 'n Pretty
Dab of This and That, A
Dance With Death
Dark Mood
Dat Dere
David’s Tune
Davisamba
Day Dream
Days of Wine and Roses
Dear John
Dear Ruth
Dear Sir
Dearly Beloved
Deep in a Dream
Deep River
Delightful Deggie, The
DelightfuLee Morgan
Den Tex
Desafinado
Desert Moonlight
Deserving Many, The
Detour Ahead
Devilette
Dewey’s Circle
disguise (2 min 46 s)
Disguise, The
Django
Do I Crazy?
Do It
Do You Know a Good Thing
Don’t Blame Me
Don't Cry, Just Sigh
Don’t Explain
Don’t Go to Strangers
Don’t Worry ’bout Me
Double bass
Doxy
Dr. Jackle
Driftin’
Duet for Big Band
Earth Bird
Earth birth
Easterly Winds
Easy Living
Easy Walker
Echi
Eclipso
Edda
Eldorado Shuffle, The
Elizabeth
Emily
Empty pockets
End of a Love Affair, The
Epistrophy
Eric Walks
Estate
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
Eventually (4 min 20 s)
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
Everything Happens to Me
Evidence
Exactly Like You
Exotica
Extemporaneous
fabulous Paul Bley Quintet
Face of the Bass, The
Fair Weather
Fall in Love Too Easily, I
Far away lands
Farmer's Trust
Fathead
Fiesta Espagnola
Finian’s Rainbow
Firm Roots
First Song
First Take
Fish 'n Rice
Five O'clock in the Morning
Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, A
Focus on Sanity
Folk Medley
Footprints
For All We Know
For Minors Only
For Turiya
Forerunner
Forest Flower: Sunrise
Forest Flower: Sunset
Forgot, I
Four in One
Four Minute Marvin
Frank's Tune
Fred Katz and his music
Free form
Free Jazz
Freedom Jazz Dance
Freepie
Funny Face
Games That Lovers Play
Gary's notebook (6 min 05 s)
Gemini
Georgia Bright Suite
Get Happy
Gibraltar
Gichi
Gift of Love - “For Duke”
Gigolo, The
Give Me That Feelin'
Glass Bead Games
Go Down Moses
God Bless the Child
God Give Me Strength
Godchild
Goin’ Out of My Head
Golden Apple, The
Goldwyn Follies, The
Good Bait
Good life (4 min 39 s)
Good Life, The
Good Pickin’s
Goodbye Sweet Pops
Great Peace
Green Chimneys
Groove Funk Soul
Ground Work
Growing Pains
guess I'll hang my tears out to dry, I
Hallucinations
Hangin' Loose
Hank's Other Bag
Hank’s Waltz
Happy House
He's a Real Gone Guy
Head and Shoulders
Hear a Rhapsody, I
Heart of gold
Heartaches
Heel to Toe
Her
Here and now
Here’s That Rainy Day
Hermitage
Hi Fly
Hi voltage
Highest Mountain, The
Hipnosis
Hippity Hop, The
Hive
Hocus‐Pocus
Holy Land
Home Come’n
Hot House
How Deep Is the Ocean?
How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
How Insensitive
Howlong has this been going on? (3 min 12 s)
Humpty Dumpty
Hush
Hyperion with Higgins
I’d Rather Be Right
I'll Catch You
I'll Keep Loving You
I’ll Never Be the Same
I’ll Never Stop Loving You
I’ll Remember April
I’m a Fool to Want You
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
I’m Not So Sure
I'm the Girl
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
If I Had You
Ill Wind
Imagination
In a Capricornian Way
In a Mellow Tone
In a Sentimental Mood
(In My) Solitude
In the Kitchen
In the Middle of a Kiss
In the Moment
Infinity
Interface
Invisible
Invitation
Is That So?
It Could Happen to You
It Never Entered My Mind
It’s Only a Paper Moon
It Was a Very Good Year
Jackie-ing
Jacob’s Ladder
Jayne (7 min 17 s)
Jaywalkin'
Je ne sais quoi
Jitterbug Waltz
Joe's Bolero
John Coltrane
John Paul Jones
Jorgie's
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Jossa Bossa
Jumbo
Jumpin' punkins
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Just for You
Just in Time
Keystone
Killer Joe
Kismet
Kiss Me, Kate
Klactoveedsedstene
Knickerbocker Holiday
Kozo’s Waltz
Lady Bird
Lady Day
Lady, The
Landscape
Last Night When We Were Young
Latin Genetics
Laura
Leapin' and lopin'
Leave It to Me!
Leebop
Lennie’s Pennies
Let’s Call This
Let’s Cool One
Liberator of the Spirit
Light Blue
Like Someone in Love
Like Sonny
Lion and the Wolff, The
Little Melonae
Little Niles
Little Train
Liz Anne
Lo Joe
Loki
Lonely woman (4 min 59 s)
Loner, The
Lonesome Road
Long Ago (and Far Away)
Lookin’ East
Loose Canon
Love for Sale
Love is the thing
Love Letters
Love Nocturne
Love You, I
Love You Long Time
Lover Man
Lovers
Lush life
Lynn's Tune
Maffy
Make a List
Make Sure You're Sure
Mambo de la Pinta
Manhã de Carnaval
Manteca
Maze, The
Mean You, I
Meaning of the Blues, The
Medi II
Melancholee
Melody for C
Melody for Melonae
Mercenary, The
Mickey's Tune
Midnight Mambo
Midnight Waltz
Milestones
Mindif (6 min 46 s)
Minuit aux Champs-Elysees (3 min 26 s)
Mirror, Mirror
Misery
Miss Morgan
Miss Nettie B.
Misty Thursday
Moanin’
Mode for Joe
Moment’s Notice
Monk and the Nun
Moondance
Moose the Mooche
More Than a Mood
Most Like Lee
Motherless Child
Mothers of the Veil
Moving Out
Mr. Billy Higgins
Mr. Day
Mr. Kenyatta
Mrs. Scofield's Waltz
Mumbo Jumbo
Music Always
My Buddy
My Fair Lady
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My horns of plenty
My Ideal
My Man’s Gone Now
My Old Flame
My One and Only Love
My romance (13 min 37 s)
My Ship
My Sin
Mystery Song, The
Nai nai (6 min 35 s)
Naima
Namely You
Nardis
Nature Boy
Naughty Marietta: Act II
Nearness of You, The
Never Let Me Go
New and old gospel
New Arrival
New Moon: Act I, The
New York City R & B
New York, New York
News Break
Nica’s Dream
Night flower (6 min 45 s)
Night in Tunisia
Night Watch
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A
Nirvanna
Nite Flite
No Argument
No me esqueca
No, No, Nanette
No Problem
No Tears (In the End)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Not You Again
Notion, A
Notorious Tourist From the East
Now’s the Time
O.P.
Off Minor
Ojos de Rojo
Oklahoma!
Old folks (13 min 43 s)
Old Gospel
Oleo
Omega
On Children
On Green Dolphin Street
On stage
On Top of Old Smoky
Once I Loved
Once More
One Dam Thing After Another
One for Amos
Oracle, The
Organ Grinder’s Swing
Origin
Ornithology
Our Man Higgins
Our man in jazz
Out of the Blue
Out of the Past
Over the Rainbow
Pal Joey
Pannonica
Parker's Mood
Partitions
Party Time
Passing (3 min)
Passion Flower
Passport
Pat 'N' Chat
Paul's Pal
Peace (9 min 04 s)
Peacocks (7 min 16 s)
Peacocks, The
Pennies From Heaven
Pentatonic
Peter Pan
Picture of Heath
Pieces of Dreams
Pilgrim's Funny Farm, A
Pinnacles
Pinocchio
@Pit Inn
Play Me the Blues
Plexus
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Portrait of Doll
Prayer to the People
procrastinator, The
Prophet Speaks, The
Psychedelic
Public eye
Pule (4 min 52 s)
Quarte's Fever
Quartet West
Quiet Dawn
Rain
Rajah, The
Ramblin’
Reach Out, I’ll Be There
Recado
Recorda Me
Red Car
Red River Valley
Rejoicing
Relaxin’ at Camarillo
Remember Clifford, I
Remember You, I
Rene
Requiem
Retribution
Rhythm-a-ning (4 min 11 s)
Rio
Road Song
Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, The
Roberta
Roni's Decision
Roses
'Round midnight
@Royal flush ; Out of this world ; The cat walk
Rumproller (10 min 26 s)
Rumproller, The
Sabiá
San Francisco Holiday
Sandu
Saucer Eyes
Search for the new land
Second Balcony Jump
Secret Love
See See Rider Blues
See Your Face Before Me, I
Segment
Señor Blues
September in the Rain
Serenade in Blue
Serenity
Seven Minds
Shadow of Your Smile, The
Shall We Dance
Shangri-La
@shape of jazz to come, The
Shaw 'Nuff
Sheik of Araby (3 min)
Sheik of Araby, The
Shiny Stockings
Short Count
Short Stuff
Should Care, I
Shoulders
Si Si
Sidewinder, The
Silence
Simple Pleasure
Singin’ in the Rain
Sister Sadie
Six and Eight
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Sense, The
Skylark
slice of the top, A
Sneaky Pete
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Soft Impressions
Soft Touch
Solar
Soldier, The
Soliloquy
Somethin' Special
Something else !!!
Something in Common
Something to Live For
Sometime
Song of Songs
Sonic Boom
Soul Dance
Soul Time
@soulful Sunday, A
Sound of Music, The
Soweto
Sparkling eyes (5 min 10 s)
Speedball
sphinx (4 min 13 s)
Sphinx, The
Spirits Up Above
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
St. Thomas
Stan Getz with Cal Tjader
Star Dance
Star Eyes
Star seeding
Steppin’ Stones
@Stick up
Still time (3 min 50 s)
Stolen Moments
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Stopstart
Story From a Stranger
Straight Ahead
Straight Life
Straight No Filter
Straight Street
Street Woman
Summer Knows, The
Summer Nights
Summer Stock
Summertime
Sunny
Sunset Eyes
Surf Ride
Sweet Honey Bee
Swingin' affair
Swingin’ the Dream
Takin' off
Taney county (7 min 39 s)
Tears in Heaven
Tears Inside
Tempus Fugit
Th eme for Mark (3 min 26 s)
That's all (2 min 56 s)
Theme for Ahmad, A
Theme for Ernie
Theme for Mark
Theme From Love Story
Theme, The
There Is No Greater Love
There Must Be a Way
There’s a Lull in My Life
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Things We Did Last Summer, The
Third Season
Third Time Around
This Guy’s in Love With You
Thomasville
Thou Swell
Thought of You, I
Three Bags Full
Three Little Words
Three o'clock in the morning
Time for Love, A
Tin Tin Deo
Tivoli
Totem pole (10 min 13 s)
Touch of the Blues, A
Trane Connections
Trapped
Trip, The
Triste
True Blues
Tumbao
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Tune Up
Turnaround, The
Turquoise Twice
Twilight Waltz
Ugetsu
Ugly Beauty
Una muy bonita
Una noche con francis (4 min 22 s)
Undecided
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Up Over and Out
Venus de Mildew
Verse
Visa
Visit, The
Voice of the Saxophone, The
Voodoo
Wagon Wheels
Waiting for an Answer
Wake Up and Dream
Watch What Happens
water is wide
Watermelon man (7 min 10 s)
Wave
We Had a Sister
We See
Wee Dot
West of the Pecos
What Am I Here For
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
What Now My Love
What Reason Could I Give
What’s New?
When I Fall in Love
When Lights Are Low
When Love Is New
When will the blues leave ? (4 min 58 s)
Where Are You?
Whisper Not
Whittlin'
Who it is you are
Who Knows
Wild Is the Wind
Willow Weep for Me
Winnie Mandela - Beloved Heroine
Winther's Calling
Wish
Wizard of Oz, The
Won’t Cry Anymore, I
Wonder Why
Woody ’n’ You
Works two
World is falling down
World Music
Yama
Yellow Violet
Yes I Can, No You Can't
Yesterday's Mood
You Are My Everything
You Are My Sunshine
You Are So Beautiful
You Don’t Know What Love Is
You Go to My Head
You mean so much to me (8 min 57 s)
You Must Believe in Spring
You’re My Everything
You Stepped Out of a Dream
You’ve Changed
Young and Foolish
Zambia
Zellmar's Delight
Zip Code
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Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Higgins, Billy; William Higgins; Hassan Ahmed Abdul Kareem; jazz musician, teacher, community activist, drummer, percussionist; born 11 October 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States. He formed the Jazz Messiahs (1953); was a house drummer for Blue Note Records and leader of the Brass Company (1970s); recorded with Cedar Walton Trio and Quartet (1975-2001); awarded the American Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Phineas Newborn Jr. Award (1997); was a faculty member of the UCLA Jazz Studies Program; in 1977 embraced islam and took the name Hassan Ahmed Abdul Karim; First Annual Billy Higgins Fresno State Jazz Festival was presented in Fresno, California (1999). He died 03 May 2001 in Inglewood, California, United States)
Associated Group: Blue Note (Firm) Brass Company (Musical group) Cedar Walton Trio Cedar Walton Quartet University of California, Los Angeles naf
Drummers (Musicians) Jazz musicians Teachers
New Grove dict. of jazz (Higgins, Billy; b. Oct. 11, 1936, Los Angeles; drummer)
New York Times, May 4, 2001 (Billy Higgins, 64, jazz drummer; d. May 3, 2001, Inglewood, Calif.; nickname, Smiling Billy)
Pepper, A. So in love [SR] c1980 (a.e.) container (Billy Higgins, drums)
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