Career
While with Tiny Grimes and his Rocking Highlanders, Prysock staged a memorable sax battle with Benny Golson on "Battle of the Mass". He also played with Roy Milton and Cootie Williams. In 1954, he signed with Mercury Records as a bandleader, and had his biggest hit, the Rhythm & Blues instrumental "Hand Clappin"" in 1955.
That same year, he joined the band that played at Alan Freed"s stage shows.
Prysock, who was born in 1926 in Greensboro, North Carolina, died of a heart attack in 1993 in Chicago, at the age of 67. He served in the United States Army during World World War II and was buried at the Salisbury National Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina.
