Album Notes

This NEWEST CD, and the first SOLO recording (as opposed to Ensemble) by KIM RICHMOND, "Ballads" is a jazz collection of 17 tracks (not all slow)--16 standards that are some of Kim's favorites, and 1 original, on the Chase Music Group label.

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). 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 11 albums), Vinny Golia (2 albums), Clare Fischer (one album), Louis Bellson, Bill Holman, and many others.

Kim's latest recording, released Summer 2001, is "Ballads" (on Chase Music Group label), a collection of his favorite standards in a jazz setting featuring his own solo alto and soprano saxophone styles. 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, while the Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble second CD "Look At The Time" was released in the Summer of 1999 on the Chase Music Group label.

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 clinician/artist-in-residence at the Jim Widner Summer Jazz Camps held at Drury College, Springfield, MO and Simpson College, near Des Moines, IA.. He is also a member of the faculty of the Bud Shank Summer Jazz Camp in Port Townsend, Washington, and the University of Iowa Summer Jazz Camp, Iowa City, IA. In Los Angeles, he is Music Director and conductor for the Los Angeles Music Center's Spotlight Awards (spot lighting Southern California's top student talent), held every April.

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.