Osie Johnson

Aliases: Osie Johnson and His Orchestra
Real name: James Johnson
Born: January 11, 1923
Died: February 10, 1966
Country: United States
Comments: Jazz drummer, sometime singer and arranger. Johnson was a much in demand drummer on the New York jazz scene until his untimely death at age 43 from kidney failure.

Releases

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
A Bit of the Blues	Osie Johnson and His Orchestra	January 1957	RCA Victor
Cohn on the Saxophone	Al Cohn - Osie Johnson, Milt Hinton, Hank Jones, Frank Rehak	February 1957	Dawn Records
In Osie's Oasis	Osie Johnson	1955	Period Records
The Australian Jazz Quintet +1	The Australian Jazz Quintet with Osie Johnson	1957	Bethlehem Records
The Piano Scene of Dave McKenna	Dave McKenna with Osie Johnson and John Drew	1959	Epic