Gene Dinwiddie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gene Dinwiddie

American blues saxophonist

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2002

Profession: musician, saxophonist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gene Dinwiddie (born Charles Eugene Dinwiddie: September 19, 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States – January 11, 2002 in La Puente, Los Angeles, California, aged 65), was an American blues saxophonist, who is best known as a member of the Butterfield Blues Band. Dinwiddie had played since the 1950s in both jazz and blues until, in 1967, the Butterfield Blues Band added a horn section.
In this he remained until the band broke up in 1971, and afterwards he was still a member of the Butterfield Band spinoff group, Full Moon. It also was during the 1960s that he was a member of the James Cotton Blues Band and worked in the 1970s as a session musician, amongst other musicians for, B.
B.
King, Paul Butterfield, Gregg Allman, Melissa Manchester and Jackie Lomax.
In the 1990s, his work as a session musician continued.
He can be heard, for example, on Etta James' Stickin' to My Guns (1990).