In addition, Franklin played and recorded with Gene Harris and the Three Sounds, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Archie Shepp, O.C.

Smith, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau, Curtis Amy, Teddy Edwards, and Sonny Criss.

Encouraged by his father, Sammy Franklin, a jazz trumpeter and bandleader,[3] he studied with Al McKibbon and George Morrow, while listening to Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins.

While attending the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, he played with his first professional band – the Roy Ayers Latin Jazz Quintet.

Still organized and headlined by Franklin, PSJ continues to feature well-known local and national jazz musicians as guests performing with the regular house trio.

The book, with melody lines and chords, contains 225 tunes, including many standards by such notables as Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Cole Porter, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner and others, including, of course, the Skipper.

The conjurer of traditions, the conductor of an elastic orchestra, writing symphonies in real time.Here is an assessment of the bassist, Henry Franklin:[16] There is one such maestro whose own legacy, much like their instrument, has been obscured while remaining ever present.