Bob Ojeda

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Robert "Bob" Ojeda (born September 1, 1941 in Austin (Texas) , † March 26, 2020 in Elmhurst (Illinois) ) was an American jazz musician ( trumpet , arrangement , composition ).

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Ojeda grew up in Chicago, where he went to jazz clubs as a teenager. At the age of 15, he and a friend led a band in the neighborhood, for which he had already orchestrated and arranged. At the age of 18 he played in Stan Kenton's orchestra ; in the following years with Woody Herman , Buddy Rich , Ralph Marterie and Les Elgart . In the second half of the 1960s he took part in the recordings of Bunky Green ( The Latinization of Bunky Green , 1966) and Joe Morello ( Another Step Forward , 1969) in Chicago . He has also appeared on the TV shows The Tonight Show and The Midnight Special. In the following years he was a member of the Les Hooper Big Band; he also worked with Hank Jones ( Ain't Misbehavin ' ), Lionel Hampton , The Manhattan Transfer . In 1975 he played with the Rolling Stones .

As a member of the Count Basie Orchestra , to which Ojeda belonged from 1985 to 2002, he accompanied the singer Caterina Valente in 1985/86 . With the Basie-Band (led by Frank Foster ) recordings were made with Thad Jones ( Way-Out Basie ), Diane Schuur (1987), George Benson ( Big Boss Band , 1989), Joe Williams ( Live At Orchestra Hall, Detroit , 1992), for which he partially wrote the arrangements. Lena Horne , Tito Puente , New York Voices (1996) and Rosemary Clooney ( At Long Last , 1998). Since 2013 he has been part of Petra van Nuis' Recession Seven . Ojada also played in his later years with Grover Mitchell ’s New Blue Devils, Kenny Hing, Butch Miles ( Straight On Till Morning , 2003), most recently with vocalist Marc Pompe ( Monk's Dream , 2014). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 39 recording sessions between 1958 and 2014, according to Tom Lord .

Ojeda was an arranger for Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show in the 1980s . He was not only active as a composer for big band ("Vignola Express"), but also wrote symphonic works that were performed in Dallas, Detroit and Indianapolis. He died at Elmhurst Hospital from complications from a surgical procedure.

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  1. ↑ Chicago trumpeter Bob Ojeda dies at 78. He was a renaissance man of jazz. Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b International Trumpet Guild: In Memoriam: Bob Ojeda (1941-2020)
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Ojeda, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ojeda, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpeter, arrangement, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2020
Place of death Elmhurst, Illinois