Samuel 'Sammy' Rimington (b. April 29, 1942, in Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood

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, Kent

Kent

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), is an English jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 reed player. He has been an active New Orleans jazz

New Orleans Jazz

New Orleans Jazz may refer to:*Dixieland, a style of jazz music*New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park*Utah Jazz, a professional National Basketball Association franchise that was previously based in New Orleans and known as the New Orleans Jazz, in recognition of the jazz music of New Orleans*A...

 revivalist since the late 1950s.

Rimington played with Barry Martyn

Barry Martyn

Barry Martyn is an English born jazz drummer, active principally on the New Orleans jazz revival circuit....

 in 1959. He started to become a professional musician in 1960 when he joined the band of Ken Colyer. He stayed with Ken Colyer

Ken Colyer

Kenneth Colyer was a British jazz trumpeter and cornetist, devoted totally to New Orleans jazz. His band was also known for skiffle interludes.-Biography:...

 until 1965. That year he moved to the United States, and worked with Big Bill Bissonnette

Big Bill Bissonnette

Big Bill Bissonnette is a jazz trombonist and producer.He is a strong advocate of New Orleans jazz as played by the veteran African-American musicians. In the 1960s, he ran his own group The Easy Riders Jazz Band, formed his own label Jazz Crusade, and organized Northern tours for such veteran...

's Easy Rider Jazz Band and the very famous December Band. He made some jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

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 recordings early in the 1970s, but most of his work has been in the New Orleans jazz

New Orleans Jazz

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 vein, playing with Louis Nelson

Louis Nelson

Louis Nelson was a trombonist most associated with the jazz originating in New Orleans near the turn of the twentieth century, sometimes referred to as Dixieland music....

, Big Jim Robinson, Chris Barber

Chris Barber

Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber is best known as a jazz trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with...

, Kid Thomas Valentine

Kid Thomas Valentine

Thomas Valentine, commonly known as Kid Thomas was a jazz trumpeter and bandleader.Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. He gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man in the early 1920s. Starting in 1926 he led his own band, for decades based in the New...

, Captain John Handy

Captain John Handy

Captain John Handy , was an American jazz alto saxophonist. Handy's style was rooted in New Orleans Jazz but also incorporated elements of R&B....

, and others. He has recorded extensively as a bandleader since the early 1960s.
Sammy Rimington's main influences were George Lewis on clarinet and Captain John Handy on altosax.

Since 1982 Sammy Rimington has once a year given a concert at Floda Church near the town Katrineholm in Sweden. In the beginning, he was invited by the priest Lars "Sumpen" Sundbom, who was himself a jazz musician. Sammy frequently recorded with and was accompanied on tours by the pianist Jon Marks

Jon Marks

Jon Marks was a New Orleans jazz pianist.-Early influences:...

.

In 2010 Sammy has been doing gigs with heavy metal/fusion/jazz drummer Anders Johansson

Anders Johansson

Anders Johansson is a Swedish musician. He is the son of Jan Johansson, famous jazz pianist and brother of keyboardist Jens Johansson.-Biography:...

 from HammerFall/Yngwie Malmsteen fame.

Discography

• Armarda (1971)
• New Orleans Music (1973)
• New Orleans Christmas
• Exciting Sax
• Watering the Roots
• Everybody's Talkin
• On Tour with T. Jefferson
• More Exciting Sax
• Reed My Lips
• Live In-Store at the Louisiana Music Factory
  Louisiana Music Factory
  Louisiana Music Factory is an independent record and cd store located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Its specialty is in the local music, and has been known to the fans of the genre around the world...
  
  
• Sammy Rimington Quartet and Doc Houlind
• Visits New Orleans
• At Moose Lodge Hall
• Rarities from the KliKo Collection Vol 1, Vol 2 and Vol 3
• Very Live @ Pakefield with John Petters New Orleans All Stars
• Down In Honky Tonk Town with John Petters New Orleans Allstars (out of print)
• Jazz At Quines (1978)
• Sammy Rimington Plays The Clarinet Of George Lewis (1989)
• Louis Nelson's New Orleans All Stars Live In Japan (1988)