CLEVELAND EATON
Genres: Funk Jazz, RnB • United States

Born August 31, 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. Died July 5, 2020. Musician (piano, saxophone, trumpet, tuba, string bass), producer, arranger, composer, publisher and head of his own Birmingham-based record company. from discogs Cleveland Josephus Eaton II was raised with an intense comprehensive musical background. He was playing his mother’s piano at the age of five, and turned his efforts toward the saxophone by the time he was eight. Eaton took up the trumpet two years later, and when he reached the age of fifteen, music teacher John Springer introduced him to the tuba and string bass. Eaton played in a jazz group in college at Tennessee A & I State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in music. He then moved to Chicago and toured with the Ike Cole Trio. He later performed memorable concert tours with top-notch jazz bands led by Larry Novak, Ramsey Lewis, and the legendary Count Basie. Over the read more...