Patience Higgins

Biography

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.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Everything You See Is Me

  1978

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  Open The Doors To Your Heart

  1978

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  En Medio

  1973

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  Pieces Of Woo "The Other Side"

  1993

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  Country Girl

  1986

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  Colours

  1983

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  Dear Ella

  1997

Credited work

190 releases · 39 albums · active 1973–2025

• Performance · 328
• Other credits · 7

Studios: Unique Recording · New Fresh · Rawlston Recording Studio, Brooklyn · Clinton Recording Studio

Frequent collaborators

• The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra
• Rodney Kendrick
• DMP Big Band
• Various
• Muhal Richard Abrams
• David Murray Big Band
• J.O.B. Orquestra
• Sam Rivers Winds Of Manhattan

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