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photo by William ClaxtonNINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
NW0125 The Kim Richmond Ensemble - Looking In Looking Out
NWCD0136 Joey Sellers' Jazz Agregation - Something for Nothing
NWCD0150/60 The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Commemoration (2cd)
NWCD0153 Joey Sellers' Jazz Aggregation - Pastels and Ashes
NWCD0172 The Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble - Range
NWCD0178 Brad Dutz - Railroads
NWCD0180 The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Portland 1996
NWCD0210/220 The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - (2cd) The Other Bridge (Oakland 1999)
KIM RICHMOND is based in Los Angeles and works as a free-lance musician, doing studio work, shows, and various jazz venues. His reputation is primarily as a doubling saxophonist (most often lead alto saxophone, doubling on flutes and clarinet). Although his training has been in the area of classical clarinet, he is considered a jazz stylist and holds a position of high musical respect among his peers, both as a player and as a composer/arranger and leader.
Kim has been a member of the orchestras of Stan Kenton (on the road and one album), Bob Florence (on ten albums), Vinny Golia (2 albums), Clare Fischer (one album), Louis Bellson, Les Brown, Bill Holman, and many others.
The improvisational Kim Richmond Jazz Ensemble is showcased on the critically acclaimed Nine Winds Records/USA Music album release "Looking In Looking Out." Released on Sea Breeze Records in February 1993 is the first album (titled "Passages) of the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra, a 23-piece showcase for Kim's writing and soloing abilities. His CD "Range", co-led with trumpeter and tour partner Clay Jenkins, was released on Nine Winds in 1995. The Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble will release its latest CD "Look At The Time" in the Spring of 1999 on the Chase Music Group label.
Kim has composed and conducted original musical scores for several movies and television series, as well as new works for the concert stage, including commissions of major new Jazz pieces, all of which have been published, and classical works including a major piece for the Long Beach Symphony for brass quintet and orchestra.
In spite of his busy schedule in the professional music world, Kim enjoys keeping in touch with the educational music field by serving as guest lecturer, conductor and soloist (his primary Jazz voice is on alto saxophone) at college music festivals and workshops around the country, touring several times a year. He is a Selmer artist and a clinican/artist-in-residence at the Jim Widner Summer Jazz Camps held at Drury College, Springfield, MO; and in Las Vegas, NV and Forth Worth, Texas. He is also a member of the faculty of the Bud Shank Summer Jazz Camp in Port Townsend, Washington.
Whatever his mode of expression, be it instrumental performance, composition, arranging and conducting, Kim Richmond is striving to express a uniquely original voice, combining his extensive experience with the new sounds of our evolving musical world.
