Ike Isaacs (bassist)
Charles "Ike" Isaacs was an American jazz bassist from the greater Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area.
Born in Akron, Isaacs played trumpet and tuba as a child before settling on bass. He served in the Army during World War II, where he took lessons from Wendell Marshall. Following this he played with Tiny Grimes, Earl Bostic, Paul Quinichette, and Bennie Green. He led a band locally in Ohio in 1956, then played for two years in the trio of Carmen McRae, whom he married late in the decade. He worked with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, then with Count Basie, Gloria Lynne, and Erroll Garner, as well as with his own small groups. He recorded only once as a leader, in 1967 for RGB Records. On this recording he plays in a trio with Jack Wilson on piano and Jimmie Smith on drums.Discography
As leader
With Count Basie
- Back with Basie
- Basie in Sweden
With Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
- High Flying
- Everybody's Boppin
- The Hottest New Group in Jazz
With others
- Roy Brown, Laughing But Crying
- Roy Brown, Good Rocking Tonight
- Ray Bryant, Piano Piano Piano Piano
- Harry Edison & Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Jawbreakers
- Pee Wee Erwin, Swingin' That Music
- Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday & Carmen McRae, At Newport
- Erroll Garner, Up in Erroll's Room
- Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern
- Bennie Green & Paul Quinichette, Blow Your Horn
- Bennie Green, Soul Stirrin'
- Al Grey, Boss Bone
- Jon Hendricks, A Good Git-Together
- Jon Hendricks, Fast Livin' Blues
- Carmen McRae, A New Voice in Jazz
- Carmen McRae, Mad About the Man
- Big Miller, Revelations and the Blues
- Esther Phillips, Burnin
- Esther Phillips, Confessin' the Blues
- Jack Wilson, Song for My Daughter
- Joe Williams, A Swingin' Night at Birdland
