Personality complex, multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Giuffre, began
studying clarinet at age nine soon dominate the instrument completely. This
evolved into tenor sax in 1942 and graduated in music from Texas State
University. He continued his musical studies in Los Angeles for eight years with
Wesley La Violette who taught him the secrets of the composition. During his
stay in the Army played clarinet and sax in a marching band and when he
graduated in 1946, noted in a symphony orchestra, the Dallas Symphony "where he
played tenor sax in" Porgy and Bess ". The following year he was with Jimmy
Dorsey’s orchestra and 48 with drummer Buddy Rich and his famous orchestra.

In 1949 his career takes a quantum leap when he enters the Woody Herman
Orchestra. Giuffre who was unwittingly given to that group after the composition
of a song dedicated to the saxophone section of the orchestra and title: "Four
Brothers", a theme that drew attention to whether any criticism. After a long
hiatus in the early fifties, Jimmy Giuffre returns between 1953 and 1955 as a
saxophonist and arranger Shorty Rogers who helped dramatically to the success of
the group "Shorty Rogers and His Giants" which had in its ranks with
extraordinary musicians as Art Pepper on alto saxophone, pianist, Hampton Hawes
and drummer Shelly Manne, all distinguished representatives of the best jazz
being made in the period in American West Coast.

In December 1956, Jimmy Giuffre Atlantic recorded for the album that finally
exalting him to fame for life and for which would go down in history of jazz:
"The Jimmy Giuffre 3" was in the words of his written Giuffre handwriting on the
cover, the disc on the premium over the composition of the instrumentation. With
an awesome sound and a highly original style, Giuffre was positioned for many
consecutive weeks at the top of the jazz vanguard. Uploaded on top of modern
jazz, Jimmy Giuffre thereafter had a flurry of activity led him to collaborate
with many great musicians, and its encounter with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer
another of his moments. He recorded with him a special album called
"traditionalism Revisited" composed entirely of items that jazz of the twenties,
he learned to retrofit them with extraordinary expertise and all the juice that
sacarles hiding.

In 1960, Jimmy Giuffre recorded some tracks for clarinet and strings in
Baden-Baden and neck lost the sensitivity to adapt to modern jazz and his own
evolution. Between 1963 and 1966 created a new trio this time with Paul Bley on
piano and Steve Swallow the bass. In the late sixties he taught at the
University of New York at Livingston College and Wagner College. Return to
active music in the early seventies with Paul Bley, a pianist who was very much
of its extent and guitarist Bill Connors. Although the music is excellent, it
lacks the freshness of the first trio of Giuffre. Jimmy Giuffre is one of the
great figures of modern jazz.