Ernest Andrew "Ernie" Royal (June 2, 1921 in Los Angeles, California – March 16, 1983 in New York City) was a jazz trumpeter. His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording The Genius of Ray Charles (1959).
He began in Los Angeles as a member of Les Hite's Orchestra in 1937. In the following 20 years he would work with Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Wardell Gray, Stan Kenton and recording as a member of the Charles Mingus Octet, with Teo Macero, John Lewis and Kenny Clarke, among others, in 1953. He led ten albums, most of them recorded in Paris. In 1957 he became a staff musician for the American Broadcasting Company. He went on to play in The Tonight Show Band and can be heard on the Miles Davis albums Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960).
A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Royal died of cancer at age 61 at Mount Sinai Hospital on March 16, 1983.
1953: Portraits on Standards, The Kenton Era - Stan Kenton1954: Afro, Dizzy and Strings - Dizzy Gillespie1955: Jazz Recital - Dizzy Gillespie1955: Accent on Tenor Sax - Coleman Hawkins1955: Another One - Oscar Pettiford1955: Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars - Jimmy Cleveland1955: Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones - Sonny Stitt1955: Top Brass - Ernie Wilkins1956: The Hawk in Hi Fi - Coleman Hawkins1956: In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball Adderley1956: The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi - Oscar Pettiford1956: The Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1956) - Manny Albam-Ernie Wilkins and their Orchestra1956: Salute to Satch - Joe Newman1957: Miles Ahead - Miles Davis1957: Phineas Newborn, Jr. Plays Harold Arlen's Music from Jamaica - Phineas Newborn, Jr.1957: My Fair Lady Loves Jazz - Billy Taylor1958: New Bottle Old Wine - Gil Evans1958: Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis1958: A Map of Jimmy Cleveland - Jimmy Cleveland1958: Brass & Trio - Sonny Rollins1959: Brass Shout - Art Farmer1959: Late Date with Ruth Brown - Ruth Brown1959: The Genius of Ray Charles - Ray Charles1959: The Birth of a Band!, The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones - Quincy Jones1959: You and Lee - Lee Konitz1959: Something to Swing About - Carmen McRae1959: Portrait of the Artist - Bob Brookmeyer1960: Gillespiana - Dizzy Gillespie1960: Sister Salvation - Slide Hampton1960: Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis1961: Perceptions - Dizzy Gillespie1961: Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) - Mundell Lowe1961: White Gardenia - Johnny Griffin1962: The Soul of Hollywood - Junior Mance1962: Cabin in the Sky - Curtis Fuller1962: Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra - Art Farmer1962: Soul Street - Jimmy Forrest1962: Big Bags - Milt Jackson1962: The Complete Town Hall Concert - Charles Mingus1962: On My Way & Shoutin' Again!- Count Basie1963: For Members Only - Shirley Scott1963: Latin Fever - Herbie Mann1964: New Fantasy - Lalo Schifrin1964: Rough House Blues - Lou Donaldson1964: My Kinda Groove - Herbie Mann1964: The Cat - Jimmy Smith1964: J.J.! - J. J. Johnson1964: Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini - Quincy Jones1965: Once a Thief and Other Themes - Lalo Schifrin1965: Ray Brown / Milt Jackson - Ray Brown and Milt Jackson1965: Broadway Soul - Sonny Stitt1965: With Respect to Nat - Oscar Peterson1965: Latin Mann - Herbie Mann1965: Broadway Express - J. J. Johnson1966: Happenings - Hank Jones and Oliver Nelson1966: Encyclopedia of Jazz - Oliver Nelson1966: The Sound of Feeling - Oliver Nelson1966: Got My Mojo Workin' and Hoochie Coochie Man - Jimmy Smith1966: Brass on Fire and The Soul of the City - Manny Albam1966: Our Mann Flute - Herbie Mann1966: Spanish Rice - Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill1966: Blue Notes - Johnny Hodges1967: Glory of Love - Herbie Mann1967: Half a Sixpence - Count Basie1967: Don't Sleep in the Subway - Johnny Hodges1967: The Board of Directors - Count Basie with The Mills Brothers1968: Blues - The Common Ground - Kenny Burrell1968: Silver Cycles - Eddie Harris1968: Blues - The Common Ground - Kenny Burrell1969: Shirley Scott & the Soul Saxes - Shirley Scott1969: The Many Facets of David Newman - David Newman1969: The Soul Explosion - Illinois Jacquet1969: Soul '69 - Aretha Franklin1969: Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul - Hank Crawford1970: Houston Express - Houston Person1970: 3 Shades of Blue - Johnny Hodges1971: My Way - Gene Ammons1971: Blues in Orbit - Gil Evans1971: What's Going On - Johnny "Hammond" Smith1972: Soul Is... Pretty Purdie - Bernard Purdie1972: Guess Who - B. B. King1972: Akilah! - Melvin Sparks1972: Sweet Buns & Barbeque - Houston Person1973: Tanjah - Randy Weston1973: The Weapon - David Newman1974: 10 Years Hence - Yusef Lateef1974: Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags - Oliver Nelson1975: There Comes a Time - Gil Evans1977: Color as a Way of Life - Lou Donaldson1978: Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 - Gil Evans
