Bob Neloms

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Robert James "Bob" Neloms (born March 2, 1942 in Detroit , † July 28, 2020 in Royal Oak (Michigan) ) was an American modern jazz pianist and music teacher .

Live and act

Neloms received piano lessons from the age of five and played in country & western bands in his youth . In 1959 he received a scholarship from Down Beat , with which he attended Berklee College of Music . From 1961 to 1963 he worked as a studio musician for Motown . Then he was active on the west coast, founded the jazz rock band The Flower in San Francisco and also performed with Sly Stone . In 1969 and 1970 he continued his studies at Berklee College and then continued to work in the Boston area . In 1973 he moved to New York City , where he first worked with Roy Haynes and Pharoah Sanders , as well as with Pepper Adams and Clifford Jordan . Ricky Ford , Eddie Henderson and Bob Mover often worked in his own bands .

In early 1977 he became a member of Charles Mingus ' band , with whom he toured and whose last albums he participated, such as Three or Four Shades of Blues and Cumbia & Jazz Fusion . Then he was part of the first edition of the Mingus Dynasty (album under the name of Dannie Richmond 1980) and worked with Billy Bang / Ahmed Abdullah , Allen Lowe James Newton , Abbey Lincoln , Mario Escalera , Buddy Tate and Hamiet Bluiett ( Dangerously Suite , Soul Note ). In 1981 he recorded a solo album for India Navigation . According to Tom Lord , he was involved in 26 recording sessions in the field of jazz between 1976 and 1985, most recently with Allen Lowe ( For Poor BB and Others . From the mid-1980s he was mainly active as a music teacher, but occasionally appeared as a soloist and in a duo bassist Vishnu Wood in New York, including at the Jazz Forum on Cooper Square, where he lived in Birmingham, Michigan .

Discographic notes

  • Bobby Neloms (Bai Records, 1963)
  • Pretty Music (India Navigation, 1981)

Lexigraphic entries

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  1. ↑ Obituary. Legacy.com, August 23, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Coda magazine 1983
  3. ↑ Jazz times: Volume 31, Issues 6-10 (2001)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 27, 2020)
  5. ^ Marshall Berman, Brian Berger: New York calling: from blackout to Bloomberg

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SURNAME Neloms, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neloms, Robert James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American modern jazz pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2020
Place of death Royal Oak (Michigan)