Ike Isaacs (bassist)

Charles "Ike" Isaacs (March 28, 1923 – February 27, 1981) was an American jazz bassist from Greater Cleveland.

Early life

Born in Akron, Ohio, Isaacs played trumpet and tuba as a child before settling on bass.^[1]

Career

Isaacs served in the

• Maxine Sullivan with the Ike Isaacs Quartet (Audiophile, 1981) Maxine Sullivan with the Ike Isaacs Quartet
• Enjoy Yourself! (Audiophile, 1986) Maxine Sullivan, Bob Haggart, Ike Isaacs featuring Dardanelle, Sil Austin, Dan Wall
• At the Pied Piper (RGB, 1992)

As sideman

With Count Basie

• Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962)
• Basie in Sweden (Roulette, 1962)

With Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

• High Flying (Columbia, 1961)
• Everybody's Boppin (Columbia, 1989)
• The Hottest New Group in Jazz (Columbia, 1996)

With others

• Roy Brown, Laughing But Crying (Route 66, 1977)
• Roy Brown, Good Rocking Tonight (Route 66, 1978)
• Ray Bryant, Piano Piano Piano Piano (Prestige, 1957)
• Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Jawbreakers
  (Riverside, 1962)
• Pee Wee Erwin, Swingin' That Music (Jazzology, 1980)
• Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday & Carmen McRae, At Newport (Verve, 2000)
• Erroll Garner, Up in Erroll's Room (MGM, 1968)
• Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern (EmArcy, 1985)
• Bennie Green & Paul Quinichette, Blow Your Horn (Decca, 1956)
• Bennie Green, Soul Stirrin' (Blue Note, 1958)
• Al Grey, Boss Bone (Argo, 1964)
• Jon Hendricks, A Good Git-Together (World Pacific 1959)
• Jon Hendricks, Fast Livin' Blues (Columbia, 1962)
• Carmen McRae, A New Voice in Jazz (Brunswick, 1958)
• Carmen McRae, Mad About the Man (Decca, 1958)
• Big Miller
  , Revelations and the Blues (Columbia, 1961)
• Esther Phillips, Burnin (Atlantic, 1970)
• Esther Phillips, Confessin' the Blues (Atlantic, 1976)
• Dan Wall, The Trio (Audiophile, 1982)
• Jack Wilson, Song for My Daughter (Blue Note, 1969)
• Joe Williams, Joe Williams Live! A Swingin' Night at Birdland (Roulette, 1962)

References

• Allmusic