Andy McCloud

Andrew "Andy" McCloud III (born 1948 in Newark (New Jersey) ; † May 24, 2010 ) was an American bassist, composer and arranger .

Live and act

McCloud grew up in East Orange, New Jersey ; At the age of seven he learned the clarinet, in high school he switched to the baritone saxophone and sang in a doo-wop group. At the age of 16 he began to play his uncle's double bass. Influenced by the music of Art Blakeys and Horace Silvers , he and school friends founded the jazz quartet The Cosmopolitans , from which an octet developed and played his first arrangements. After attending college in Minnesota , he returned to New Jersey to study at Rutgers University . He also played with the salsa band Ocho , for which he composed and with which the first recordings were made. After three years he left the band to move to New York, where he played in the loft scene. a. with Bobby Battle , Carter Jefferson , Greg Bandy, and Donald Smith ; an important mentor was Jimmy Garrison . He continued his studies at Jazzmobile and played a. a. Lee Morgan , Curtis Fuller , Jimmy Heath and Sonny Red . Frank Foster brought him into his band The Loud Minority ; he also worked with Pharoah Sanders , Hannibal Marvin Peterson , Sonny Fortune and Mary Lou Williams . In 1977 he went to Elvin Jones on Foster's recommendation , with whom he played for five years and participated in albums such as Remembrance (1978).

In the early 1980s he worked with Clifford Jordan , Arthur Blythe and Don Pullen , then with McCoy Tyner and Dizzy Gillespie . He played for three years with Jon Hendricks and then for nine years until 1998 with Hilton Ruiz . He also worked on the recordings of Jimmy McGriff ( Stump Juice , 1975) and Pat LaBarbera ( The Wizard , 1978). In his later years he toured with tap dancer Savion Glover a . a. in Japan . McCloud died at the age of 61.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary in The Star-Ledger
2. ↑ Portrait at Mapleshade Records
3. ↑ Andy McCloud at Discogs (English)