Bill Brimfield
William J. "Bill" Brimfield (born April 8, 1938 in Chicago , Illinois ; † October 10, 2012 there ) was an American jazz trumpeter .
Live and act
Brimfield was born in Chicago in 1938 and grew up in Evanston , Illinois. He learned the piano at the age of six and the violin at nine . During his high school years he played in several music bands.
Brimfield already worked at the School of Music at Northwestern University with Fred Anderson and took part in the first recordings of the AACM with Anderson and Joseph Jarman in 1966 . In 1966 Brimfield recorded Jarman's debut album Song For for Delmark Records . In the following years he worked mostly with Fred Anderson, with whom he performed at the Moers Festival in 1978 and at the first Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park in 1979 . He continued his collaboration with Anderson until the 1990s, including on his 1998 live album from the Velvet Lounge. Brimfield, who participated in 19 recording sessions from 1966 to 2001, can also be heard on recordings by Don Moye , Fenton Robinson , Ed Petersen , the Mandingo Griot Society around Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake and Dieter Glawischnig . Most recently he worked with pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow ( We Are Not Machines , 2002). In the early 2000s, he suffered a stroke and increasingly withdrew from the music business. Most recently he performed at the Ethiopian Diamond Restaurant .
He died on October 10, 2012 at his home in Chicago.
Web links
- Billy Brimfield at Allmusic (English)
- Bill Brimfield at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ JAZZ AT THE TEN SPOT , ncpr.org
- ↑ a b Chicago trumpeter Bill Brimfield, early avant-garde star, dies at 74 , examiner.com
- ↑ George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music , 38
- ↑ Tom Lord discography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brimfield, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brimfield, Billy; Brimfield, William J. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 2012 |
| Place of death | Chicago |