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Patience Higgins is mainly a jazz saxophonist, flutist and multi-reed musician playing saxophones,flues, clarinets, 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 Lane, and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet.

In 1998 he was featured artist playing saxophone and flute for double Grammy Award winning recording Dee Dee Bridgewater's Dear Ella.

Career
Higgins has also performed with the Duke Ellington Band under the direction of Mercer Ellington, and Paul Ellington. He has been a member of the Duke Ellington Band for over twenty years. He has toured and and recorded with Frank Foster, Rodney Kendrick, Yoko Ono, Cleo Lane and The Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet, Vanessa Rubin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Pointer Sisters, Don Byron, Hamiett Bluiett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Nicolas Payton, David Murray, Aretha Franklin, Savion Glover, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Sam Rivers, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Watson & Tailor Made, Archie Shepp, Barry Harris, Muhal Richard Abrams, Stevie Wonder, Paquito D’Rivera, James Zollar, Bobby Short, Wilson Pickett, Kiane Zawadi, Leopaldo Fleming.

Theater Credits

 * AVE Q, DREAMGIRLS
 * THE WIZ
 * AIN’T MISBHEVIN’
 * BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR
 * BLACK & BLUE
 * RUNAWAYS
 * HAIR
 * SOPHISTICATED LADIES
 * JELLY’S LAST JAM
 * 5 GUYS NAMED MOE
 * CHICAGO

Movie Soundtracks

 * THE COTTON CLUB
 * SCHOOL DAZE,
 * AWAKENINGS
 * SOUL TO SOUL
 * BABY BOY

Jazz Festivals

 * NORTH SEA”
 * PORI
 * MONTREAUX
 * JVC
 * NANCY
 * WILLASAU
 * VIENNE
 * BERLIN
 * PLAY BOY
 * MONTERY
 * NEWPORT
 * GLASKOW
 * COPENHAGEN
 * MONTREAL
 * JAZZ HERITAGE” in New Orleans.