# Patience Higgins

Patience Higgins is a New York-based jazz saxophonist, flutist, and multi-reed musician. He also plays clarinet, oboe, and English horn. He has performed with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Barry Harris, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Scott, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paquito D’Rivera, Cleo Laine, and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet. Higgins has a history as a Broadway musician. He is a music educator and teaches at the New York Jazz Workshop Music School. Higgins has toured with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestras.
In 1998 he was featured artist playing saxophone and flute for double Grammy Award-winning recording Dee Dee Bridgewater's Dear Ella.
Higgins along with the Sugar Hill Quartet were the house band for the Lenox Lounge, and regular Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub in Harlem. His 1998 album 'Live in Harlem' documents Monday night sessions at St. Nick's Pub.

## Career

Higgins has also performed with the Duke Ellington Band under the direction of Mercer Ellington, and Paul Ellington. He has been a member of the Duke Ellington Band for over twenty years. He has toured and recorded with Frank Foster, Rodney Kendrick, Yoko Ono, Cleo Laine and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet, Vanessa Rubin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Pointer Sisters, Don Byron, Hamiett Bluiett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Nicolas Payton, David Murray, Aretha Franklin, Savion Glover, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Sam Rivers, Charles Tolliver, Sam and Dave, Bobby Watson & Tailor Made, Archie Shepp, Wilson Pickett, Barry Harris, Muhal Richard Abrams, Stevie Wonder, Paquito D’Rivera, James Zollar, Bobby Short, Chip White, Wilson Pickett, Joey DeFrancesco, Kiane Zawadi, Eli Fountain, Leopaldo Fleming.

## Discography
### Album appearances

| Year | Album | Artist | Instrument(s) |
| 2018 | The Atomic Bomb Blues | The Dave Taylor Octet / Dave Taylor | Oboe, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor), Soloist |
| 2017 | Splendor in the Grass/The Manchurian Candidate [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | David Amram | Saxophone |
| 2017 | Run- 'N Fly | Run- 'N Fly | Saxophone |
| 2015 | All My Tomorrows | Steve Cromity | Guest Artist, Flute, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor) |
| 2015 | Building Up the Kingdom | M. Roger Holland | Clarinet |
| 2013 | Golden Age | Mister Fred | Oboe |
| 2012 | Thoughts on God | Eric Person | Clarinet, Sax (Tenor), Soloist |
| 2010 | A Second Chance | Dorothy Leigh | Clarinet (Bass), Flute, Sax (Baritone) |
| 2010 | The Tinderbox Musical | | Sax (Baritone) |
| 2010 | What Is Love? | Queen Esther | Sax (Tenor) |
| 2009 | More Dedications | Chip White | Alto, Flute, Sax (Soprano) |
| 2008 | Me, Marsalis & Monk | Whitney Marchelle | Main Personnel, Sax (Soprano) |
| 2007 | Down for You | Darby Dizard | Clarinet |
| 2005 | Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 7 | | Sax (Alto) |
| 2005 | Underneath a Brooklyn Moon | J.C. Hopkins Biggish Band | Main Personnel, Sax (Tenor), Soloist |
| 2004 | I'm Not a Sometime Thing | Carol Mennie | Main Personnel, Reeds, Saxophone |
| 2004 | Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington | Jabbo Ware | Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) |
| 2003 | Avenue Q | | Flute, Clarinet, Sax (Alto) |
| 2003 | Organized! | Swingadelic | Sax (Alto), Group Member |
| 2002 | Blueblack | Hamiet Bluiett | Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) |
| 2001 | Aftermath | Mike Longo / Mike Longo & the New York State of the Art Jazz Band | Reeds |
| 2001 | Lifeline | Suzanne Couch | Sax (Tenor) |
| 2001 | A Great Day in C'Ville: Jazz from the Piedmont | | Sax (Baritone) |
| 2000 | Boogie Boo! | Swingadelic | Sax (Baritone) |
| 1999 | I | Theorcolus | Flute, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto) |
| 1998 | 3 A.M. | Rich Shemaria | Flute (Alto), Sax (Baritone) |
| 1998 | Libation for the Baritone Saxophone Nation | Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group / Hamiet Bluiett | Sax (Baritone), Composer |
| 1998 | Live in Harlem | Patience Higgins | Primary Artist, Sax (Tenor) |
| 1998 | Potpourri | DMP Big Band | Multi Instruments |
| 1998 | Swingin' with Legends | Angela DeNiro | Flute, Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) |
| 1997 | DMP Big Band Salutes Duke Ellington | DMP Big Band | Sax (Tenor), Group Member |
| 1997 | Dear Ella | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Sax (Baritone) |
| 1997 | He Leadeth Me | Cissy Houston | Sax (Baritone) |
| 1997 | Live at the Knitting Factory | Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group | Sax (Baritone) |
| 1997 | No Way to Treat a Lady | | Flute, Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Oboe, Sax (Tenor) |
| 1997 | Waves of Peace | Nancie Banks | Flute, Saxophone |
| 1995 | Carved in Stone | DMP Big Band | Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone |
| 1995 | Heritage Is | James Jabbo Ware & the Me We & Them Orchestra | Clarinet, Sax (Baritone) |
| 1995 | Last Chance for Common Sense | Rodney Kendrick | Clarinet (Bass), Horn (English), Sax (Baritone) |
| 1995 | New York Rock [Original Cast] | Yoko Ono | Flute, Saxophone |
| 1995 | One Line, Two Views | Muhal Richard Abrams | tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion, voice |
| 1995 | South of the Border | David Murray | Saxophone, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Soloist |
| 1994 | Live at the Village Vanguard | Hamiet Bluiett | Composer |
| 1994 | Bert's Blues | Nancie Banks Orchestra | Sax (Tenor) |
| 1994 | Remembering Billy Strayhorn | Errol Parker | Sax (Bass) |
| 1994 | Solitude | Cleo Laine | Sax (Alto) |
| 1993 | Dance, World, Dance | Rodney Kendrick | Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone) |
| 1993 | Family Talk | Muhal Richard Abrams | Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Horn (English), Sax (Tenor), Horn |
| 1993 | Pieces of Woo: The Other Side | Bernie Worrell | Clarinet |
| 1993 | Tailor Made | Bobby Watson | Clarinet, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor) |
| 1992 | Help Is Coming | Chuck Metcalf Octet Featuring Patience Higgins | Sax (Tenor), Flute |
| 1992 | David Murray Big Band | David Murray | Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor) |
| 1991 | Blu Blu Blu | Muhal Richard Abrams | Flute, Clarinet, Sax (Baritone) |
| 1991 | Errol Parker Tentet | Errol Parker | Sax (Baritone) |
| 1990 | Where Were You? | Joey DeFrancesco | Sax (Tenor) |
| 1989 | Music Is My Mistress | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Sax (Tenor) |
| 1989 | The Hearinga Suite | Muhal Richard Abrams / The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra | Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Tenor) |
| 1989 | Music Masters Jazz Sampler | | Sax (Tenor) |
| 1986 | Country Girl | Amina Claudine Myers | Flute, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto) |
| 1983 | Rejoicing with the Light | Muhal Richard Abrams / The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra | Clarinet, Clarinet (Alto), Sax (Baritone) |
| 1982 | Colours | Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan | Flute, Sax (Baritone) |
| 1979 | Attica Blues Big Band | Archie Shepp | Main Personnel, Flute, Saxophone, Wind |
| 1976 | The Runaways [Original Soundtrack] | Original Broadway Cast | Flute, Saxophone, Improvisation, Primary Artist |

## Movie Soundtracks

* The Cotton Club
* School Daze
* Awakenings
* Soul to Soul
* Baby Boy

## Theater Credits

* AVE Q, DREAMGIRLS
* THE WIZ
* AIN’T MISBHEVIN’
* BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR
* BLACK & BLUE
* RUNAWAYS
* HAIR
* SOPHISTICATED LADIES
* JELLY’S LAST JAM
* 5 GUYS NAMED MOE
* CHICAGO

## Jazz Festivals

* NORTH SEA
* PORI
* MONTREAUX
* JVC
* NANCY
* WILLASAU
* VIENNE
* BERLIN
* PLAY BOY
* MONTEREY
* NEWPORT
* GLASKOW
* COPENHAGEN
* MONTREAL
* JAZZ HERITAGE in New Orleans.
* CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTIVAL (in New York City)