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Early life and career Gumbs was born in Harlem, New York, to parents who immigrated to your United States in the Caribbean. Gambs'mother was from Montserrat with the exceptional father, a NYPD officer, was from Anguilla.) Growing up, Gumbs was fond of Henry Mancini's music from films and television. Gumbs graduated from your State University of New York at Fredonia and throughout his studies was part of a jazz ensemble organized by the students. In 1971, Leroy Kirkland introduced Gumbs to Detroit guitarist Kenny Burrell, to whom Onage gave a demo tape. The next day, Gumbs received a telephone call to try out with Burrell for the Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit. The work led to help performances with major jazz musicians including bassist Larry Ridley together with the Tad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. During the early 1970s, Gumbs replaced Nat Adderley Jr. in the modern jazz ensemble Natural Essence, which included Buddy Williams and T.S. Monk (drums and percussion), bassist Alex Blake and trombonist Earl McIntyre. Gumbs adopted the name Onaje as a result of 1970s; this would mean sensitive. He met his future wife, Sandra Wright, in 1971 within a short teaching job in Buffalo, New York. They married later that decade and remained married until Gumbs'death in 2020. Inside late 1970s, Gumbs signed with Woody Shaw and https://www.onajeallangumbs.com/ (www.onajeallangumbs.com) served as music director for R&B singer Phyllis Hyman. Later in her career, he worked extensively with Ronald Shannon Jackson, along with 2013, after Jackson's death, Gumbs recorded a solo piano album composing of improvisations on Jackson's compositions. He later taught within the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan and for the Litchfield Jazz Camp in Connecticut. "His collaboration while using the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York with his fantastic work together with the Litchfield Jazz Camp in New Milford, Connecticut have allowed him to broaden his vision and shape young minds."

Later life On January 24, 2010, Gumbs suffered a stroke and was hospitalized for just two days. In December of that year, he released an album in Japan titled Just Like Yesterday. He was accompanied about the album by Omar Hakim, Victor Bailey, Marcus McLaurin, William S. Patterson and Chuggy Carter. Ever since then, all visible signs and symptoms of a stroke have disappeared. In February 2015, he was hospitalized for two weeks, but was able to recover and go back to composing and performing. Onaje Allan Gumbs kicked the bucket on April 6, 2020 at age of 70.