Bob Brookmeyer
Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (* 19th December 1929 in Kansas City , Missouri ; † 15. December 2011 ) was an American jazz - musicians ( trumpet , piano ), arranger and composer .
Career
Brookmeyer studied at the Kansas City Conservatory from 1947 to 1950 . After military service, he began his career in 1951 as a pianist with Tex Beneke . In 1952 he played with Louis Prima , Claude Thornhill , Terry Gibbs and Woody Herman and also began to perform on the valve trombone . In 1953 he moved to Los Angeles and became an important figure in West Coast jazz , first with Stan Getz ( At the Shrine , 1954), then in particular by replacing Chet Baker in Gerry Mulligan 's piano-less quartet (1954 to 1957). The formation appeared in 1954 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris , to be heard on the Vogue album Pleyel Concert . He was also part of the unusual Jimmy Giuffre Three (1957/58) with Giuffres saxophone, Brookmeyer's valve trombone and Jim Hall's guitar.
At the same time Brookmeyer continued to work as a pianist and recorded a record in 1959 with a quartet with Bill Evans . In the early 1960s he was co-leader, arranger and trombonist of the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band ; from 1961 to 1966 he led a relatively successful quintet with Clark Terry . In 1962 he arranged for Jack Teagarden ( Think Well of Me ); In 1965 he was one of the founding members of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra , to which he contributed numerous arrangements. From 1968 on he worked as a studio musician on the US west coast and often played alongside well-known mainstream jazz musicians. Until 1980 he was musical director of the reorganized Lewis Big Band, for which he performed both as a soloist and continued to write very demanding arrangements.
In the late 1980s Brookmeyer moved to Europe, where he continued to write and occasionally took part in recordings on the valve trombone.
Brookmeyer is considered the first notable jazz musician on the valve trombone since Juan Tizol . As a pianist he developed a percussive and dissonant way of playing completely outside of the previous jazz tradition. In 2006 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship .
The album OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer (2014, Planet Arts Recordings) by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra provides an overview of the range of Brookmeyer's compositions : four pieces from the early 1980s and four from the 2000s.
Appreciations
“Every time he puts his instrument to his lips, a phrase comes out of the quality of a jazz standard. When he is soloing, I want to get music paper straight away and write down what he is playing. "
Discographic notes
- 1954: The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer ( Prestige / OJC) with Jimmy Raney , Mel Lewis , Teddy Charles
- 1954: Quintets ( Vogue )
- 1956: Brookmeyer ( RCA Victor )
- 1957: Traditionalism Revisited ( Blue Note ) with Jimmy Giuffre , Jim Hall , Joe Benjamin , Ralph Peña
- 1978: The Bob Brookmeyer Small Band (DCC Jazz, published 1999)
- 1986: Oslo ( Concord )
- 1988: Back Again ( Dragon )
- 1991: Electricity (ACT)
- 1993: Paris Suite (Challenge)
- 1994: Old Friends (Storyville) with Thomas Clausen , Mads Vinding
- 1997: New Works / Celebration (Challenge)
- 1998: Out Of This World (cook)
- 1998: Together (Challenge, with Mads Vinding)
- 1999: Madly Loving You (Challenge)
- 2000: Holiday (Challenge)
- 2004: Island (Artists House)
- 2012: Trombone Jazz Samba (+ Samba Para Dos) (verve)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Richard Cook: Jazz Encyclopedia. London 2007, ISBN 978-0-14-102646-6 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
Web links
- Works by Bob Brookmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bob Brookmeyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bob Brookmeyer website
- Biography as NEA Jazz Master
- Bob Brookmeyer at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in the Ottawa Citizen ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review by Owen Cordle , JazzTimes January 16, 2015, accessed January 24, 2015
- ↑ Jimmy Giuffre. Quoted from: Peter Niklas Wilson . In: jazz classics . 2 vols. Edited by Peter Niklas Wilson. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005 ( RUB ), ISBN 3-15-030030-4 , Vol. 1, pp. 313-320, here 317.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brookmeyer, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brookmeyer, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 2011 |