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Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Henry Grimes, Stuttgart [1963] by Jan Jurgen
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John Coltrane and Billy Higgins at the Monterey Jazz Festival [1960] by Ray Avery
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Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Sonny Rollins ready to record Our Man in Jazz live at The Village Gate, July, 1962
Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Sonny Rollins ready to record Our Man in Jazz live at The Village Gate, July, 1962
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“Dexter Gordon was like one of the Magellans; he made the maps” - Billy Higgins
Ornette Coleman, Something Else!!!! [1958] Contemporary
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – cornet
Walter Norris – piano
Don Payne – double bass
Billy Higgins – drums
The album that "shook up the jazz world" - AllMusic
John Coltrane and Billy Higgins at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1960, by Ray Avery
Album Of The Day - Lee Morgan, Search for the New Land [Blue Note] Recorded 1964 / Released 1966
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor sax
Herbie Hancock – piano
Grant Green – guitar
Reggie Workman – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
One of the finest Lee Morgan records
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come [Atlantic Records] 1959
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - cornet
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering its future course and throwing down a gauntlet that some still haven't come to grips with. Any understanding of jazz's avant-garde should begin here. [allmusic review]
Ornette Coleman - Change Of The Century [1960]
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
billy higgins by francis wolff