Ben Tucker
Benjamin Mayer "Ben" Tucker (born December 13, 1930 in Nashville , Tennessee , † June 4, 2013 on Hutchinson Island , Georgia ) was an American jazz musician ( bassist , composition ).
Career
Tucker studied tuba in 1948/49 and graduated from Tennessee State University with a master's degree. He then went back to his hometown and played in clubs there for two years. In the 1950s he worked in Los Angeles for a few years, first in the band of Warne Marsh , briefly with Art Pepper and then with Carl Perkins . He went to New York in 1959 and played there a. a. with Roland Hanna ; then he accompanied the singer Chris Connor and formed a duo with Freddie Gambrell . In the 1960s he worked with Mary Lou Williams ( Black Christ of the Andes , 1964), Herbie Mann and Billy Taylor , in the 1970s with Yusef Lateef , Marian McPartland , Illinois Jacquet and Pat Martino . He also recorded records with Gerry Mulligan , Lou Donaldson , Dexter Gordon , Grant Green , Gil Evans and under his own name. His biggest hit was Comin 'Home Baby! from 1961; the song he wrote with Bob Dorough was a hit song for Mel Tormé and was also recorded by Quincy Jones , Hank Jones and Michael Bublé . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 125 recording sessions between 1956 and 2006, most recently with pianist David Duckworth ( I Remember You: A Pianist's Tribute to Johnny Mercer ).
Besides music, Tucker's great passion was golf . He died in a traffic accident in June 2013 when the golf cart he was driving was rammed by another vehicle.
Lexical entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ben Tucker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary , Frankfurter Neue Presse June 6, 2013
- Ben Tucker at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 28, 2019)
- ^ Obituary in Savannah Now
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tucker, Ben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tucker, Benjamin Mayer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville , Tennessee |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th June 2013 |
| Place of death | Hutchinson Island (Georgia) |