Bob Enevoldsen

Bob Enevoldsen (* 11. January 1920 in Billings (Montana) as Robert Martin Enevoldsen ; † 19th November 2005 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz - trombone , bass player and arranger of the West Coast Jazz . He played with Art Pepper , Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne .

Life

Bob Enevoldsen studied at the University of Montana , where he graduated in 1942 with a degree in music theory. After his military service at the beginning of his musician career, Bob Enevoldsen played the clarinet in Utah's Symphony Orchestra and moved to Los Angeles in 1951 , where he worked in various West Coast jazz formations, such as bassist with Bobby Troup in 1954/55 . In 1955 he was a founding member of the Shelly Manne & His Men formation . He was often heard as a valve trombonist , but he also played the tenor saxophone. Enevoldsen made recordings with Leonard Feather , Tal Farlow , Bob Florence , Terry Gibbs , Gerry Mulligan , Lennie Niehaus , Marty Paich , Art Pepper , Dave Pell and Shorty Rogers , Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars and released under his own name. In the 1960s he was a studio musician in various television shows, such as Ray Anthony , Steve Allen , Woody Woodbury , Peter Marshall and the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra ; he also accompanied the singers Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O'Day . In the 1970s he worked with Bob Crosby , Jack Lesberg , Tex Beneke , Bill Holman , Mel Tormé, and the Lighthouse All Stars . In the 1990s Enevoldsen was mainly active as a freelance musician; so he worked on the album A View From The Side by Bill Holman.

Shelly Manne & His Men: Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (Contemporary, 1957)
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Lightly (Verve, 1958)
Tal Farlow: Jazz Masters (Verve, 1955-58)
Herbie Harper: Five Brothers (VSOP, 1955)
Bill Holman: A View From The Side (JVC, 1995)
Shelly Manne: The West Coast Sound (OJC, 1955)
Lennie Niehaus: Zounds (OJC, 1954-56); The Octet No. 2, Volume 3 (OJC, 1955)
Art Pepper: Modern Jazz Classics (OJC, 1959)
Shorty Rogers: Courts The Count (RCA, 1954); The Wizard Of Oz (RCA, 1959)

Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 .
Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988.

personal data
SURNAME	Enevoldsen, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Enevoldsen, Robert Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Billings (Montana)
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 2005
Place of death	los Angeles